The age old question, which comes first? A simultaneous test of children's savings and children's college-bound identity

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1101-1111

  Elliott, William ^a   Choi, Eun Hee ^a   Destin, Mesmin ^b   Kim, Kevin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assets; Child Development Accounts (CDAs); College attendance; College expectations; PSID; Savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955767710     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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