Can the poor save?

Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-18

  Hogarth, Jeanne M ^a   Anguelov, Chris E ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Low income households; Saving

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842743009     PISSN: 10523073     EISSN: 19477910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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