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Family Assets For Independence In Minnesota, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Mark Schreiner, Margaret Clancy, Michael Sherraden
Family Assets For Independence In Minnesota, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Mark Schreiner, Margaret Clancy, Michael Sherraden
Center for Social Development Research
Family Assets for Independence in Minnesota
Savings And Asset Accumulation In Individual Development Accounts, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Jami Curley, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Min Zhan, Sondra Beverly
Savings And Asset Accumulation In Individual Development Accounts, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Jami Curley, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Min Zhan, Sondra Beverly
Center for Social Development Research
Savings and Asset Accumulation in Individual Development Accounts
A Framework Of Asset-Accumulation Stages And Strategies, Sondra Beverly, Amanda Moore, Mark Schreiner
A Framework Of Asset-Accumulation Stages And Strategies, Sondra Beverly, Amanda Moore, Mark Schreiner
Center for Social Development Research
We propose that asset accumulation occurs in three stages. In the first stage (reallocation), current resource inflows must exceed current outflows. To meet this objective, people reallocate resources from current consumption, current leisure, or future consumption or leisure. In the second stage (conversion), people may convert resources from liquid to illiquid forms. In the third stage (maintenance), individuals resist temptations to dissave. We suggest that people adopt psychological and behavioral strategies to achieve each of these objectives. Putting the two types of strategies together with the three stages of asset accumulation results in six strategy groups. We provide examples of …