Using individual development accounts to save for a home: Are there differences by race?

Social Service Review

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 657-681

  Grinstein Weiss, Michal ^a   Irish, Kate ^a   Parish, Susan L ^a   Wagner, Kristen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 39449124363     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524288     Document Type: Article

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