Revisions of papers presented at a symposium held at Washington University in St. Louis. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Assets and public policy / Michael Sherraden -- The Homestead act : a major asset-building policy in American history / Trina Williams Shanks -- Asset-based policy in historical and international perspective / James Midgley -- Who are the asset poor? Levels, trends, and composition, 1983-1998 / Robert Haveman and Edward N. Wolff -- Family matters : kin networks and asset accumulation / Ngina Chiteji and Darrick Hamilton -- Family assets and school access : race and class in the structuring of educational opportunity / Thomas M. Shapiro and Heather Beth Johnson -- Home ownership and youth well-being / Edward Scanlon and Deborah Adams -- Reaching out to the unbanked / John P. Caskey -- Linking tax refunds and low-cost bank accounts to bank the unbanked / Sondra G. Beverly ... [et al.] -- Assets and the poor : evidence from individual development accounts / Mark Schreiner ... [et al.] -- The impacts of IDA programs on family savings and asset holdings / Michael A. Stegman and Robert Faris -- Going to scale : principles and policy options for an inclusive asset-building policy / Robert E. Friedman and Ray Boshara -- Toward progressive pensions : a summary of the U.S. pension system and proposals for reform / Peter Orszag and Robert Greenstein -- The thrift savings plan experience : implications for a universal asset account initiative / Elaine C. Rideout -- The universal piggy bank : designing and implementing a system of savings accounts for children / Fred Goldberg -- The EITC and USAs/IDAs : maybe a marriage made in heaven? / Timothy M. Smeeding -- Critical questions in asset-based policy / Jared Bernstein -- Inclusion in asset building : directions for theory and research / Michael Sherraden ... [et al.].
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