Do Child Development Accounts Promote Account Holding, Saving, And Asset Accumulation for Children's Future? Evidence from a Statewide Randomized Experiment

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-33

  Nam, Yunju ^a   Kim, Youngmi ^b   Clancy, Margaret ^c   Zager, Robert ^c   Sherraden, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

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EID: 84871946757     PISSN: 02768739     EISSN: 15206688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pam.21652     Document Type: Article

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