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Excluding 529 College Savings Plan Accounts From Oklahoma Public Assistance Asset Limit Tests, Lisa Reyes Mason, Margaret M. Clancy, Soda Lo Jul 2008

Excluding 529 College Savings Plan Accounts From Oklahoma Public Assistance Asset Limit Tests, Lisa Reyes Mason, Margaret M. Clancy, Soda Lo

Center for Social Development Research

Excluding 529 College Savings Plan Accounts From Oklahoma Public Assistance Asset Limit Tests


Does Banking Experience Matter: Differences Of The Banked And Unbanked In Individual Development Accounts, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Yeong H. Yeo, Mathieu R. Despard, Min Zhan Jul 2008

Does Banking Experience Matter: Differences Of The Banked And Unbanked In Individual Development Accounts, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Yeong H. Yeo, Mathieu R. Despard, Min Zhan

Center for Social Development Research

Using data from the 4-year American Dream Demonstration, this study compared saving performance and program participation of banked participants (n = 1,538) with unbanked participants (n = 466) enrolled in 14 IDA programs across the United States. The study found that unbanked participants had $3.26 lower average monthly net deposit (p<.05) and 5% lower deposit frequency (p<.001) than banked participants. Unbanked participants had 45% greater odds of dropout than banked participants (p<.001). Further analyses looking at the intervening variables suggested that the combined effects of car ownership, education, race, and monthly savings targets significantly reduced the savings gap between the two groups.


Assets, Poverty, And Public Policy: Challenges In Definition And Measurement, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang, Michael Sherraden Jul 2008

Assets, Poverty, And Public Policy: Challenges In Definition And Measurement, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy: Challenges in Definition and Measurement


The Effects Of Holding Assets On Social And Economic Outcomes Of Families: A Review Of Theory And Evidence, Robert Lerman, Signe-Mary Mckernan Jul 2008

The Effects Of Holding Assets On Social And Economic Outcomes Of Families: A Review Of Theory And Evidence, Robert Lerman, Signe-Mary Mckernan

Center for Social Development Research

The Effects of Holding Assets on Social and Economic Outcomes of Families: A Review of Theory and Evidence


Civic Service In Lesotho: Local Sources And U.S. Connections, R Drew Smith, Stephanie Boddie Jul 2008

Civic Service In Lesotho: Local Sources And U.S. Connections, R Drew Smith, Stephanie Boddie

Center for Social Development Research

Civic Service in Lesotho: Local Sources and U.S. Connections


Experience Corps: Benefits Of Volunteering, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Benefits Of Volunteering, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Benefits of Volunteering


Eitc In Indian Country: Moving Beyond The Safety Net To Asset Building, Kristen Wagner, Amy Locklear Hertel Jul 2008

Eitc In Indian Country: Moving Beyond The Safety Net To Asset Building, Kristen Wagner, Amy Locklear Hertel

Center for Social Development Research

EITC in Indian Country: Moving Beyond the Safety Net to Asset Building


Measuring The Impact Of A Community Revitalization Program: The Case Of Beyond Housing In Pagedale, Missouri, William Winter, William Elliott Iii Jul 2008

Measuring The Impact Of A Community Revitalization Program: The Case Of Beyond Housing In Pagedale, Missouri, William Winter, William Elliott Iii

Center for Social Development Research

The paper examines the impact of a comprehensive housing development program initiated by a nonprofit organization working in a small municipality in St. Louis County, Missouri. The development program includes rental housing, for sale housing and repair grants to existing residents. The analysis serves both as opportunity to test hedonic price modeling on the housing work and as an examination of the applicability of such techniques in evaluation of local community development efforts. The analysis finds evidence of price differential comparing municipal sales to sales within a comparable, larger geographic area, with a negative differential switching to positive over the …


Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment, Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson, Rodrigo Kon, Leandro Bottinnelli, Florencia Cabrera, Marta Estarellas Jul 2008

Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment, Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson, Rodrigo Kon, Leandro Bottinnelli, Florencia Cabrera, Marta Estarellas

Center for Social Development Research

Youth Volunteer Service in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Regional Assessment


Asset-Building Coalitions In States: Innovative Coalition Development And Policy Advocacy Strategies Meeting, Karen Edwards, Gena Gunn Mcclendon, Jennifer Heffern Jul 2008

Asset-Building Coalitions In States: Innovative Coalition Development And Policy Advocacy Strategies Meeting, Karen Edwards, Gena Gunn Mcclendon, Jennifer Heffern

Center for Social Development Research

Asset-Building Coalitions in States: Innovative Coalition Development and Policy Advocacy Strategies Meeting


Household Assets And Health In China: Evidence And Policy Implications, Baorong Guo, Lin Zhang, Michael Sherraden Jul 2008

Household Assets And Health In China: Evidence And Policy Implications, Baorong Guo, Lin Zhang, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

China’s health care reform of the 1990s has not yielded much success. The market-oriented health system has resulted in declines in fairness of health services and efficiency of investment in the health sector. Further health care reform will be required. Among many options, asset-based policy has demonstrated some potential in domestic policy development. To provide evidence to inform health policy development in China, this study focuses on effects of household assets on health in China. Specifically, the current study examines how household assets may affect health status and how assets differ from income in predicting health status. Using a random …


Experience Corps: Methodology Of Member Outcomes Study, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne, Emily Dessen, Cal Halvorsen Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Methodology Of Member Outcomes Study, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne, Emily Dessen, Cal Halvorsen

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Methodology of Member Outcomes Study


Experience Corps: Stipends, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacy Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Stipends, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacy Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Stipends


Experience Corps: Who Are The Members?, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song_Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Who Are The Members?, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song_Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Who Are the Members?


Asset-Building Coalitions In Oregon And North Carolina: Two Case Studies, Karen Edwards, Gena Gunn, Jennifer Downs, Jennifer Heffern Jul 2008

Asset-Building Coalitions In Oregon And North Carolina: Two Case Studies, Karen Edwards, Gena Gunn, Jennifer Downs, Jennifer Heffern

Center for Social Development Research

Asset-Building Coalitions in Oregon and North Carolina: Two Case Studies


Helping People Act On Their Hopes Rather Than Their Fears: Lessons From Non-Enrollees In The Seed Initiative, Trina Williams Shanks, Toni Johnson, Kerri Nicoll Jul 2008

Helping People Act On Their Hopes Rather Than Their Fears: Lessons From Non-Enrollees In The Seed Initiative, Trina Williams Shanks, Toni Johnson, Kerri Nicoll

Center for Social Development Research

Helping People Act on Their Hopes Rather Than Their Fears: Lessons From Non-Enrollees in the SEED Initiative


State 529 Matching Grant Program Summary, Margaret M. Clancy, Lisa Reyes Mason, Soda Lo Jul 2008

State 529 Matching Grant Program Summary, Margaret M. Clancy, Lisa Reyes Mason, Soda Lo

Center for Social Development Research

State 529 Matching Grant Program Summary


Servicio Voluntario Juvenil En Lationamerica Y El Caribe Un Estido Regional; Resumen Ejecutivo [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment; Executive Summary], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson Jul 2008

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil En Lationamerica Y El Caribe Un Estido Regional; Resumen Ejecutivo [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment; Executive Summary], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson

Center for Social Development Research

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil en Lationamerica y el Caribe Un Estido Regional; resumen ejecutivo [Youth volunteer service in Latin America and the Caribbean: A regional assessment; executive summary]


Exploring Saving Performance In An Ida For People With Disabilities: Some Preliminary Findings, Margaret Lombe, Jin Huang, Michelle Putnam, Kate Cooney Jul 2008

Exploring Saving Performance In An Ida For People With Disabilities: Some Preliminary Findings, Margaret Lombe, Jin Huang, Michelle Putnam, Kate Cooney

Center for Social Development Research

Asset development policies have been promoted as a means to create a more inclusive “ownership society.” During the past few years, asset building scholarship has begun to focus specifically on marginalized groups including persons with disabilities. Using a sample of Individual Development Account (IDA) program participants (N=376), we examine effects of disability status on IDA saving performance; we also assess variations in saving performance by individual and programmatic characteristics. Our results suggest that disability status, in addition to a number of individual and program characteristics, is associated with saving performance in an IDA. Implications for practice and scholarship are presented.


Experience Corps: Changes In Activity Associated With Participation, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Changes In Activity Associated With Participation, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Changes in Activity Associated With Participation


Experience Corps: The Volunteer Experience, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: The Volunteer Experience, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: The Volunteer Experience


Servicio Voluntario Juvenil En Lationamerica Y El Caribe Un Estido Regional [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson Jul 2008

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil En Lationamerica Y El Caribe Un Estido Regional [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson

Center for Social Development Research

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil en Lationamerica y el Caribe Un Estido Regional


Servicio Voluntario Juvenil Na America Latina E O Caribe: Um Estudo Regional; Resumo Executivo [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin American And The Caribbean: A Regional Assesment; Executive Summary], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson Jul 2008

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil Na America Latina E O Caribe: Um Estudo Regional; Resumo Executivo [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin American And The Caribbean: A Regional Assesment; Executive Summary], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson

Center for Social Development Research

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil na America Latina e o Caribe: Um Estudo Regional


Dialogues On Assets In Native Communities: Recording A Native Perspective On The Definition And Benefits Of Retaining And Building Assets, Amy Locklear Hertel, Kristen Wagner, John Phillips, Karen Edwards, Jessica Hale Jul 2008

Dialogues On Assets In Native Communities: Recording A Native Perspective On The Definition And Benefits Of Retaining And Building Assets, Amy Locklear Hertel, Kristen Wagner, John Phillips, Karen Edwards, Jessica Hale

Center for Social Development Research

Dialogues on Assets in Native Communities: Recording a Native Perspective on the Definition and Benefits of Retaining and Building Assets


Parental Assets: A Pathway To Positive Child Educational Outcomes, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Yeong H. Yeo, Kate Irish, Min Zhan Jul 2008

Parental Assets: A Pathway To Positive Child Educational Outcomes, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Yeong H. Yeo, Kate Irish, Min Zhan

Center for Social Development Research

A growing body of evidence suggests parental assets have positive effects on children’s well-being. Using 2004 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this study tests the effect of parental asset holding on child educational outcomes, and explores whether this relationship is mediated by parental involvement and expectations. Results indicate that assets are a significant predictor of all child academic outcomes of our study, however income is not a significant predictor for school outcomes when controlling for assets. The mediation analyses show the effect of assets on school outcomes is mediated by two of the three parenting measures: …


Changing Roles Of Parental Economic Resources In Children's Education Attainment, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang Jul 2008

Changing Roles Of Parental Economic Resources In Children's Education Attainment, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang

Center for Social Development Research

We investigate whether the relationship between parents’ economic resources and children’s educational attainment has changed over time by comparing two cohorts from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We examine multiple measures of economic resources, including income, net worth, liquid assets, and homeownership. We employ probit regressions and Chow tests in multivariate analyses. Results show that the associations between parents’ liquid assets and college attendance became significantly stronger among the later cohort, suggesting the increasing importance of liquid assets. of particular interest is a change in the role of negative liquid assets (unsecured debt exceeding savings) in high school graduation: …


Raising Parent Expectations: Can Wealth And Parent College Accounts Help?, William Elliott Iii, Kristen Wagner Jul 2008

Raising Parent Expectations: Can Wealth And Parent College Accounts Help?, William Elliott Iii, Kristen Wagner

Center for Social Development Research

For many children, especially minority and low-income children, attending college is a genuinely desired but elusive goal. Research on aspirations and expectations provides a way to understand the gap between what children desire and what they actually expect to happen. This study examines the potential role of children’s college accounts (CCAs) as a way to reduce the gap between aspirations and expectations among at-risk children. I find that only 39 percent of children without savings for college expect to attend college; there is an aspirations/expectations gap of 41 percentage points among children with CCAs. Moreover, children with a CCA are …


Building Assets From Birth: A Global Comparison Of Child Development Account Policies, Vernon Loke, Michael Sherraden Jul 2008

Building Assets From Birth: A Global Comparison Of Child Development Account Policies, Vernon Loke, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Asset building is a growing theme in public policy, and building assets from birth in the form of Child Development Accounts is now occurring in several countries. This paper provides an overview of the Child Development Account policies in Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Korea, and the proposed policy in the United States. The key elements of inclusiveness, progressivity, coherence and integration, and development are explicated and discussed.


Challenges For Assessing Disability Prevalence: The Case Of Afghanistan = Les Défis De La Mesure De La Prévalence Du Handicap : Le Cas De L’Afghanistan, Jean-Francois Trani, Parul Bakhshi Jan 2008

Challenges For Assessing Disability Prevalence: The Case Of Afghanistan = Les Défis De La Mesure De La Prévalence Du Handicap : Le Cas De L’Afghanistan, Jean-Francois Trani, Parul Bakhshi

Brown School Faculty Publications

This article attempts to examine the methodological intricacies of measuring prevalence rate of disability through a population based survey using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health of the WHO and the Capability framework, developed by Amartya Sen and others. After a rapid overview of the Afghan context and the process leading to the research programme, it presents the example of the methodology used in the NDSA and the survey protocol. The authors argue that prevalence rates can be measured using different instruments in terms of impairments, activity limitations or in terms of well-being. Thus, the disability experience is …


What We Believe: A History Of The George Warren Brown School Of Social Work, 1909-2007, Candace O'Connor, George Warren Brown School Of Social Work, Washington University In St. Louis Jan 2008

What We Believe: A History Of The George Warren Brown School Of Social Work, 1909-2007, Candace O'Connor, George Warren Brown School Of Social Work, Washington University In St. Louis

Books and Monographs

A history of the George Warren Brown school of social work, 1909-2007. The St. Louis School of Economy: brightening "shadowed lives" -- "The Enlightenment is here": Frank J. Bruno -- "Unanimous approval": Benjamin E. Youngdahl -- Breaking "the bonds of the institutional habit": Wayne Vasey and Ralph Garber -- "An inspiring academic leader": Shanti K. Khinduka -- "Social impact": Edward F. Lawlor. Print copy also available through the library at http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b3649614~S2, Call #HV11.7 .O27 2009