Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Thomas M. Shapiro and Edward N. Wolff
  • The importance of assets / Thomas M. Shapiro
  • Recent trends in wealth ownership, from 1983 to 1998 / Edward N. Wolff
  • Access to wealth among older workers in the 1990s and how it is distributed : data from the health and retirement study / Richard V. Burkhauser and Robert R. Weathers II
  • The role of intergenerational transfers in spreading asset ownership / Mark O. Wilhelm
  • Asset accumulation among low-income households / Stacie Carney and William G. Gale.
  • More than money : the role of assets in the survival strategies and material well-being of the poor / Kathryn Edin
  • Housing as a means of asset accumulation : a good strategy for the poor? / Nancy A. Denton
  • The un(credit)worthy poor : historical perspectives on policies to expand assets and credit / Mark J. Stern
  • Asset-building policy and programs for the poor / Michael Sherraden
  • Assets and the tax code / Laurence S. Seidman
  • Wrap-up with rapporteurs / John Sibley Butler, Dalton Conley, Robert Haveman, Seymour Spilerman.