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

• Autore: Sherraden Margaret S
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.0240086/942
• Soggetto topico: Individual development accounts; Poor - Finance, Personal
• Altri autori: McBrideAmanda Moore <1971-> BeverlySondra G
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Striving to save
• ISBN: 1-282-63879-3; 9786612638794; 0-472-02181-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816128503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II