| Edition |
1st papercover ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 389 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Ford Foundation series on asset building
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Thomas M. Shapiro and Edward N. Wolff -- Importance of assets / Thomas M. Shapiro -- Recent trends in wealth ownership, from 1983 to 1998 / Edward N. Wolff -- Access to wealth among older workers in the 1990s and how it is distributed : data from the health and retirement study / Richard V. Burkhauser and Robert R. Weathers II -- Role of intergenerational transfers in spreading asset ownership / Mark O. Wilhelm -- Asset accumulation among low-income households / Stacie Carney and William G. Gale. |
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More than money : the role of assets in the survival strategies and material well-being of the poor / Kathryn Edin -- Housing as a means of asset accumulation : a good strategy for the poor? / Nancy A. Denton -- Un(credit)worthy poor : historical perspectives on policies to expand assets and credit / Mark J. Stern -- Asset-building policy and programs for the poor / Michael Sherraden -- Assets and the tax code / Laurence S. Seidman -- Wrap-up with rapporteurs / John Sibley Butler, Dalton Conley, Robert Haveman, Seymour Spilerman. |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Government policy.
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Saving and investment -- Government policy.
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Poor -- Finance, Personal.
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| Added Author |
Shapiro, Thomas M.
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Wolff, Edward N.
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| ISBN |
0871547643 |
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