Saving, IDA Programs, and Effects of IDAs: A Survey of Participants

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Saving, IDA Programs, and Effects of IDAs: A Survey of Participants

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Amanda Moore (Washington University in St. Louis)
Sondra Beverly (University of Kansas)
Mark Schreiner (WUSTL)
Michael Sherraden (WUSTL)
Margaret Lombe (WUSTL)
Esther Y. N. Cho (WUSTL)
Lissa Johnson (WUSTL)
Rebecca Vonderlack (WUSTL)

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Abstract

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are special savings accounts designed to help people build assets to reach life goals and to achieve long-term security. Account-holders receive matching funds as they save for purposes such as buying a first home, attending job training, going to college, or financing a small business. Research has shown that most low-income participants save in IDAs (Sherraden et al., 2000). But what do participants think about the match rates, the withdrawal restrictions, and other institutional attributes of IDAs? How do they manage to set aside money for IDA deposits? And what effects do they perceive from their participation in IDA programs? This report uses cross-sectional survey data from current (N=298) and former (N=20) IDA participants in the American Dream Demonstration to address these and other questions.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Microeconomics with number 0108002.

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Length: 65 pages
Date of creation: 02 Sep 2001
Date of revision: 27 Dec 2001
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Find related papers by JEL classification:
D91 - Microeconomics - - Intertemporal Choice and Growth - - - Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
L3 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise
H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate

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NEP-ALL-2001-09-10 (All new papers)
NEP-MFD-2001-09-10 (Microfinance)

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E. J. Bird & P. A. Hagstrom & R. Wild, . "Credit Cards and the Poor," Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers 1148-97, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty. [Downloadable!]
Beverly, Sondra G. & Sherraden, Michael, 1999. "Institutional determinants of saving: implications for low-income households and public policy," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(4), pages 457-473. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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