Behavioral Insights, Maternal Attention, and Early Language Resources for Low Income Infants

项目摘要/摘要 孩子的出生对项目来说是一个潜在的强大时刻，可以与照顾者接触，以支持和 塑造积极的育儿实践。像所有的父母一样，低收入的父母可能愿意并接受 学习和做对他们的婴儿最好的事情，但在婴儿期养育孩子特别混乱和压力。 这对传统的外展形式提出了挑战，并在父母表现良好的情况下继续进行 意图以及资源何时以最低成本公开可用。运用行为经济学的见解 (BE)，我们测试有限的关注和对母亲身份的积极肯定在多大程度上是有利的 针对低收入婴儿母亲的早期语言和识字育儿资源。我们 应用行为经济学框架中的见解-融合传统的科学学科 经济学、认知决策和社会心理学--设计和实验测试一系列 纽约市新生儿护士家访计划(NVHP)现有分娩中的嵌套干预 增加早期语言资源的吸收和参与并支持积极的亲子关系的系统 互动。来自哈莱姆区的新生儿母亲中有一半接受了NHVP的访问，这将(A)自动 注册参加纽约市与您的宝宝交谈计划，并接收个性化提醒和孩子 通过短信提供发展提示(以解决注意力有限的问题)；(B)观看患有老年痴呆症的母亲和婴儿的视频 在第二次家访中强化了关于母亲身份的积极信息(以激励积极、赋权和 (C)在婴儿4-6个月生日时收到一个礼包，礼包上有早点 阅读书籍，预先填写的图书卡和为居民量身定做的图书馆位置地图，当地书店 和故事时长(现在未来的奖励，打开频道的因素)。另一半的母亲 新生儿将像往常一样接受NVHP服务和一本早期语言资源手册。我们的具体目标 目的：1.测试行为经济学(BE)知情干预对父母的补充影响 理解和使用纽约市的Talk to Your Baby短信程序。目标2.评估是否存在这样的问题 随后，干预措施增加了父母与孩子之间语言互动的数量和复杂性 婴儿。目标3：为低收入家庭早期语言互动的影响提供证据 通过新的测量方法(语言自我报告测量)对纽约市的婴儿进行调查 通过回应文本的互动将通过对实际语言的自然主义录音来验证 婴儿暴露在家庭环境中)。这个项目将获得证据，证明一捆 嵌套的行为知情低成本干预措施可以优化早期公开可用的使用和影响 语言和学习资源--在20多个城市和地区推出--在特别受欢迎的 儿童早期大脑发育的可塑性时期。

Project Summary / Abstract The birth of a child is a potentially powerful moment for programs to engage with caregivers to support and shape positive parenting practices. Like all parents, low-income parents may be willing and receptive to learning and doing what is best for their infant, but parenting during infancy is especially chaotic and stressful. This presents challenges to conventional forms of outreach and follow through even when parents have good intentions and when resources are publicly available at minimal cost. Using insights from behavioral economics (BE), we test the extent to which limited attention and positive affirmation of motherhood can be favorably directed to toward early language and literacy parenting resources among low income mothers of infants. We apply insights from the framework of behavioral economics—blending the scientific disciplines of conventional economics, cognitive decision making and social psychology—to design and experimentally test a bundle of nested interventions within New York City's Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Program (NVHP) existing delivery system to increase uptake and participation with early language resources and support positive parent-infant interactions. Half of mothers of newborns from the Harlem site receiving NHVP visits will (a) be automatically enrolled in the New York City Talk to Your Baby program and receive personalized reminders and child development tips via text message (to address limited attention); (b) view a video of mothers and infants with a reinforced positive message about motherhood at the second home visit (to inspire positive, empowering, and capable feelings of maternal identity); and, (c) at the infants 4-6 month birthday receive a gift packet with early reading books, prepopulated library card and a residentially tailored map of library locations, local book stores and story hours (making present future rewards, opening channel factors). The other half of mothers of newborns will receive NVHP services and a brochure of early language resources as usual. Our specific aims are to: Aim 1. Test the supplemental impact of behavioral economics (BE) informed interventions on parent uptake and use of New York City's Talk to Your Baby texting program. Aim 2. Assess whether such BE interventions subsequently increase the amount and complexity of parents' language interactions with their infant. Aim 3. Generate evidence of impact of on early language interactions in the homes of low income infants in New York City through new measurement methodologies (self-report measures of language interactions via responses to texts will be validated through naturalistic recordings of actual language that the infant is exposed to in the home environment). This project will garner evidence about whether a bundle of nested behaviorally informed low cost interventions can optimize use and impact of publicly available early language and learning resources—as launched in over 20 cities and localities—during a particularly receptive and malleable period of early childhood brain development.