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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816128503321

Autore

Sherraden Margaret S

Titolo

Striving to save : creating policies for financial security of low-income families / / Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride with Sondra G. Beverly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-63879-3

9786612638794

0-472-02181-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McBrideAmanda Moore <1971->

BeverlySondra G

Disciplina

332.0240086/942

Soggetti

Individual development accounts

Poor - Finance, Personal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Saving in Low-Income Households -- 1. Research on Matched Savings in Low-Income Households -- 2. Theory and Evidence on Saving in Low-Income Households -- 3. Setting the Stage: Economic Socialization and Coming-of-Age in a Working-Poor Family -- 4. Managing Household Finances and Making Ends Meet on a Low Income -- 5. Problem Debt and Creditworthiness -- 6. Striving to Save -- 7. Saving in Individual Development Accounts -- 8. Saving Strategies in Individual Development Accounts -- 9. Effects of IDA Program Participation -- Conclusion: Saving Theory, Policy, and Research -- Appendixes -- A. IDA Participants' Demographics and IDA Saving Experiences -- B. Control Respondent Demographic Characteristics -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts.