
SIO321: Does Giving Money to Mothers Boost Baby Brain Activity?
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Is the Poverty Reduction Manipulation Predicting Brain Development?
The study used regression analyses to see if their poverty reduction manipulation predicted different patterns in electrical brain activity. The primary predictor of interest is the treatment condition, whether or not the mothers receive 333 dollars per month or 20 dollars per month. And they also controlled for a variety of co-variates such as education and income and net worth,. They put in factors that might be associated with poverty and could also impact brain developments.
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