Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Saving in low-income households
  • Ch. 1. Research on matched savings in low-income households
  • Ch. 2. Theory and evidence on saving in low-income households
  • Ch. 3. Setting the stage: Economic socialization and coming-of-age in a working poor family
  • Ch. 4. Managing household finances and making ends meet on low income
  • Ch. 5. Problem debt and creditworthiness
  • Ch. 6. Striving to save
  • Ch. 7. Saving in individual development accounts
  • Ch. 8. Saving strategies in individual development accounts
  • Ch. 9. Effects of IDA program participation
  • Conclusion. Saving theory, policy, and research
  • Appendixes. Appendix A. IDA participants' Demographics and IDA saving experiences
  • Appendix B. Control respondent demographic characteristics
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.