Child Development Accounts and saving for children's future: Do financial incentives matter?

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1570-1576

  Mason, Lisa Reyes ^a   Nam, Yunju ^a   Clancy, Margaret ^a   Kim, Youngmi ^a   Loke, Vernon ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Assets; Child development accounts; Incentives; Policy; Saving

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956442356     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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