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Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households:

Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households: Current Availability and Options for Improvement

Contents Data Sets Identified and Criteria for Assessment Primary Data Sources for Holdings of Low-Resource Households' Assets Survey of Income and Program Participation Panel Study of Income Dynamics Survey of Consumer Finances Means for Improving Asset Data General Means for Improving Asset Data
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Asset Building over the Life Course

Asset Building over the Life Course

This report provides a conceptual framework that describes how asset accumulation unfolds over an individual's lifetime and how the effects of such accumulation can best be understood within the context of the life course. The report identifies five factors that are important in understanding the low levels of asset accumulation among low-income
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Balance Sheets of Low-Income Households: What We

Balance Sheets of Low-Income Households: What We Know about Their Assets and Liabilities

This report synthesizes current research and other available information on the assets and liabilities of low-income households into a variety of portraits. These data allow practitioners and researchers to begin to form a comprehensive representation of the balance sheets of low-income households. [78 PDF pages]
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Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households:

Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households: Current Availability and Options for Improvement

This report identifies three data sets as the most reliable and informative data sources for understanding low-income households' assets and liabilities: the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The report also details the limitations of these data
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Asset Building over the Life Course

Asset Building over the Life Course

  Poor Finances:  Assets and Low-Income Households Asset Building over the Life Course Final Report By: Mark R. Rank Center for Social Development Washington University in Saint Louis November 2008
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Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households:

Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households: Introduction to the Series

Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households Principal Investigators: Signe-Mary McKernan and Michael Sherraden The Urban Institute Project began September 2007 This project is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/07/PoorFinances/ How to obtain printed copies of reports
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Empirical Studies of Asset Building over

Empirical Studies of Asset Building over the Life Course

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Exhibit 1. Empirical Studies of Assets

Exhibit 1. Empirical Studies of Assets and Liabilities of Low-Income Households

Median Total Asset Holdings by Income Quintile,

Balance Sheets of Low-Income Households: What We Know about Their Assets and Liabilities

Contents Methods and Data Sources Portraits of Families Low-income families Low education families Single-headed families Nonwhite or Hispanic families Renter families The low net worth family Suggestions for Future Research