Research

This brief offers a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework that suggests a three-pronged child-centric reparations strategy for black children.

This brief describes how the black-white wealth gap is widest for households with children.

This brief details how due to a variety of social, public policy and economic forces, black children are more likely than white children to experience negative outcomes throughout childhood.

Research provides findings on how the Baby’s First Years cash gift intervention affected Latina families

This brief summarizes the findings from “My friends made me do it: Peer influences and different types of vaping in adolescence,” published in Addictive Behaviors (2024). The authors explore the role of peer influences on adolescent vaping behavior and discuss strategies for vaping prevention interventions.

This brief reports on the impact of the BFY monthly unconditional cash gift on spending on child-specific goods and time spent on child early learning activities through the BFY enrolled child’s first four years.

This study found that as the percentage of NC Pre-K graduates in individual elementary schools increases, teachers report better working conditions and reduced teacher and principal turnover. These changes contribute to greater stability within elementary schools.

This brief summarizes findings from The Baby’s First Years study, examining the design and delivery of the BFY cash gift and how families experience and use the BFY cash gift. The BFY cash gift design provides an example of how cash transfers can be delivered in a way that can center families and entrust them with using the money as they see fit to support their families.

This brief outlines the findings from “How adolescents’ lives were disrupted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal investigation in 12 cultural groups in 9 nations from March 2020 to July 2022” in the journal Development and Psychopathology. The authors investigate the extent to which adolescents’ lives were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the factors that caused these disruptions.

This brief summarizes findings from The Baby’s First Years study, examining the ways in which a monthly unconditional high-cash gift has been used to support children’s learning and development. Results from the study highlight that such aid resulted in investments in children by increasing parents’ spending on child-specific goods and time spent on early learning activities.

Young adulthood encompasses a number of decision points around education, employment, and fertility. To capture this complexity, this study examines how multigenerational wealth is related to four outcomes: college attendance, steady employment, early nonmarital birth, and idleness.

New data from the Baby’s First Years study provide a look at family food security and how families with low incomes allocate additional funds, including spending on food.

New research findings show that teachers’ experiences during their first year in the profession impact how they assess students, particularly Black students, later in their careers.

This research brief summarizes finding from Electronic Health Record Tools to Identify Child Maltreatment: Scoping Literature Review and Key Informant Interviews, which reviewed existing research on EHR-based child abuse screens and clinical decision support systems. The authors also collected the perspectives of medical personnel on the implementation of such tools.

Receipt of maltreatment evaluation was associated with a higher risk of subsequent acute health service use, both for maltreatment-related illnesses and for broader conditions.

This brief is part of a series to examine state-level policies that relate to social service and safety net programs and the ways in which state and federal policy implementation at the local level may affect the reach of program benefits among Latino families.