Asset accumulation among low-income households

Assets for the Poor: The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 165-205

  Carney, Stacie ^a   Gale, William G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

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