A new study found that providing cash aid to poor mothers increased brain function in babies — a finding that could potentially have social policy implications.
, recruited 1,000 mothers with newborn infants and divided them into two groups: one who would receive cash payments of $333 a month and another who would receive $20 a month.
Though statistically significant by most standards, the changes in the infants' brain activities were modest, and other experts have argued that more cognitive tests would be required to understand the effect of the payments, per the Times.“This is a big scientific finding,” Martha J. Farah, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania who helped conduct the study, told the Times.
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