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Until now, however, it was unknown whether this difference came from the lack of financial resources itself or other factors commonly associated with poverty.In 2018, Noble and her team began recruiting 1,000 low-income mothers and their newborn babies from maternity wards in four major US cities for the “Baby’s First Years” randomised control trial.
As the children turned one, researchers went to their homes with a special infant EEG monitor — a device that detects electrical signals within the brain — to measure their brain activity. A 2010 study in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics showed a $4,000 difference in annual income early in childhood is associated with higher school achievement.“It was an amount that we thought might both move the needle and hold some policy relevance,” Noble said.
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