Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development

Sharon Goldfeld, Marnie Downes, Sarah Gray, Cindy Pham, Shuaijun Guo, Elodie O'Connor, Gerry Redmond, Francisco Azpitarte, Hannah Badland, Sue Woolfenden, Katrina Williams, Naomi Priest, Meredith O'Connor and Margarita Moreno-Betancur

Social Science & Medicine, 2024, vol. 340, issue C

Abstract: Early childhood interventions have the potential to reduce children's developmental inequities. We aimed to estimate the extent to which household income supplements for lower-income families in early childhood could close the gap in children's developmental outcomes and parental mental health.

Keywords: Causal inference; Child development; Disadvantage; Health inequity; Income supplement; Target trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116430

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