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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherraden, Margaret S.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

McBride, Amanda Moore, 1971-

Beverly, Sondra G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Individual development accounts.

Poor--Finance, Personal.

Poor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-63879-3

9786612638794

0-472-02181-8

OCLC:

650310394