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Lisa A. Gennetian

@Gen_Pov

#poverty researcher by day, knowledge worker 24/7, professor @dukesanford, #firstgen, @wellesley alum, tweets are my own.
Durham lisagennetian.org Joined September 2009
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Lisa A. Gennetian @Gen_Pov
Can cash given to U.S. families early in their child’s life slow a child’s biological aging? 💰
Yes.
New findings from Baby's First Years RCT in Nature Human Behaviour — nature.com/articles/s4156…
1,000 mothers, $333 or $20/mos for 4 years — no other interventions.
Follow up needed!
www.nature.com Effects of a randomized controlled trial of unconditional cash transfers on epigenetic measures of... Nature Human Behaviour - Raffington et al. find that providing low-income mothers with cash gifts for the first four years of their children’s lives appears to change the children’s...