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

项目总结/摘要 孩子的出生是一个潜在的强有力的时刻，项目可以与照顾者接触， 塑造积极的育儿实践。像所有父母一样，低收入父母可能愿意并接受 学习和做对他们的婴儿最好的事情，但是在婴儿期养育孩子特别混乱和有压力。 这对传统的外展形式提出了挑战，即使父母有良好的 意图，以及何时以最低成本公开提供资源。运用行为经济学的观点 (BE)，我们测试了对母性的有限关注和积极肯定在多大程度上可以有利地 针对低收入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的见解，融合传统经济学的科学学科， 经济学，认知决策和社会心理学-设计和实验测试一捆 在纽约市的新生儿护士家访计划（NVHP）中进行嵌套干预 系统，以增加吸收和参与与早期语言资源和支持积极的父母-婴儿 交互.来自哈莱姆研究中心接受NHVP访视的新生儿母亲中有一半将（a）自动 参加纽约市“与宝宝对话”计划，并收到个性化的提醒和孩子 通过文本消息（以解决有限的注意力）的发展提示;（B）观看母亲和婴儿的视频， 在第二次家访中加强关于母亲的积极信息（激发积极、赋权和 （c）在婴儿4-6个月生日时收到一个礼品包， 阅读书籍，预填充的图书卡和图书馆位置的住宅定制地图，当地书店 和故事时间（制作当前未来奖励，打开渠道因素）。另一半的母亲 新生儿将像往常一样接受NVHP服务和早期语言资源手册。我们的具体目标 目标：1。测试行为经济学（BE）知情干预对父母的补充影响 吸收和使用纽约市的“与宝宝交谈”短信计划。目标2.评估是否存在 干预措施随后增加了父母与他们的语言互动的数量和复杂性。 婴儿。目标3.提供证据，证明低收入家庭中早期语言互动的影响 婴儿在纽约市通过新的测量方法（自我报告措施的语言 通过对文本的反应进行的互动将通过对实际语言的自然记录进行验证， 婴儿在家庭环境中接触到的）。这个项目将收集证据，证明是否有一捆 嵌套的行为知情的低成本干预措施可以优化使用和影响， 语言和学习资源-在20多个城市和地区推出-在一个特别接受 和可塑性的时期。

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.