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Service Learning And Older Adults, Melinda Carden Jul 2001

Service Learning And Older Adults, Melinda Carden

Center for Social Development Research

Service Learning and Older Adults


Youth Service As Strong Policy, Michael Sherraden Jul 2001

Youth Service As Strong Policy, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Youth Service as Strong Policy


Service And The Human Enterprise, Michael Sherraden Jul 2001

Service And The Human Enterprise, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Service and the Human Enterprise


College Savings Plans: Implications For Policy And For A Children And Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration, Margaret Clancy Jul 2001

College Savings Plans: Implications For Policy And For A Children And Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration, Margaret Clancy

Center for Social Development Research

College Savings Plans: Implications for Policy and for a Children and Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration


Discussant Comments, Larry Davis Jul 2000

Discussant Comments, Larry Davis

Center for Social Development Research

Discussant Comments


From Research To Policy: Lessons From Individual Development Accounts, Michael Sherraden Jul 2000

From Research To Policy: Lessons From Individual Development Accounts, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

From Research to Policy: Lessons From Individual Development Accounts


The Universal Piggy Bank: Designing And Implementing A System Of Savings Accounts For Children, Fred T. Goldberg Jr., Jodi Birk Cohen Jul 2000

The Universal Piggy Bank: Designing And Implementing A System Of Savings Accounts For Children, Fred T. Goldberg Jr., Jodi Birk Cohen

Center for Social Development Research

The Universal Piggy Bank: Designing and Implementing a System of Savings Accounts for Children


Asset Based Policies For The Poor: A View From The Left, Jared Bernstein Jul 2000

Asset Based Policies For The Poor: A View From The Left, Jared Bernstein

Center for Social Development Research

Asset Based Policies for the Poor: A View From the Left


The Eitc And Usa's/Ida's: Maybe A Marriage Made In Heaven, Timothy Smeeding Jul 2000

The Eitc And Usa's/Ida's: Maybe A Marriage Made In Heaven, Timothy Smeeding

Center for Social Development Research

The EITC and USA's/IDA's: Maybe a Marriage Made in Heaven


The History And Status Of Children's Allowances: Policy Background For Children's Savings Accounts, Jami C. Curley, Michael Sherraden Jul 1998

The History And Status Of Children's Allowances: Policy Background For Children's Savings Accounts, Jami C. Curley, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Children’s allowances, a common feature of twentieth century welfare states, are cash grants to families with children. The concept of a government-provided monthly cash benefit to foster income security for all children has never had widespread political appeal. This report traces the history of children’s allowances in other nations to see what can be learned about child support policies.


Homeownership And Its Impacts: Implications For Housing Policy For Low-Income Families, Edward Scanlon Jul 1996

Homeownership And Its Impacts: Implications For Housing Policy For Low-Income Families, Edward Scanlon

Center for Social Development Research

Homeownership for low-income families is becoming the housing policy of choice in the 1990’s. To what extent is this justified? What should the policy be? This paper concludes that homeownership policy for the poor may have positive effects, but the circumstances of poor households—especially neighborhood conditions and income instability—must be taken into account.


Effects Of Assets On Attitudes And Behaviors: Advance Test Of A Social Policy Proposal, Gautam N. Yadama, Michael Sherraden Jan 1995

Effects Of Assets On Attitudes And Behaviors: Advance Test Of A Social Policy Proposal, Gautam N. Yadama, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Raising asset limits and creating individual development accounts have been proposed in welfare reform. In part the rationale for these proposals is that assets have positive effects on attitudes and behaviors, including long-term planning, greater work effort, and improved social connectedness. The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), between 1968 and 1972, included a wide range of attitude and behavioral measures. In this study, data from the PSID are analyzed to test for the following: a) the effect of assets on attitudes and behaviors; b) the effect of attitudes and behaviors on assets; c) the effect of income on attitudes …