Cost-effectiveness in individual development accounts

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-37

  Schreiner, Mark ^a   Ng, Guat Tin ^a   Sherraden, Michael ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Individual development accounts; Matched savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 29744449388     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731505276077     Document Type: Article

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