Assets for the poor: The benefits of spreading asset ownership

By Thomas A. Shapiro, E. Wolff. 2002

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Emergency Saving and Household Hardship (2016, background): “Prior research indicated that savers and nonsavers likely differ with regards to demographic, financial, and personality characteristics that also relate to the likelihood of hardships (Babiarz and Robb 2014; Bernheim et al. 2001; Hilgert and Hogarth 2003; Hogarth et al. 2003; Shapiro and Wolff 2001”
Low-income Homeownership: American Dream or Delusion? (2006, background): “There are few, if any, programmes designed to help renters save for their security deposits or become better consumers except in the context of encouraging them to escape from renting (Sherraden, 1991; Shapiro and Wolff, 2001).”
Changes in the Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families (2008, background): “We focus on lone single mothers because many of the welfare and tax reforms during our sample period targeted this group, and because lone single mother families are, on average, more disadvantaged than most other types of families that include single parents.”
The One Percent (2014, background): “However, cited estimates of the likelihood of inheriting are dated (Blinder 1988, Menchik 1980, Menchik & Jiankoplos 1998, Wilhelm 2001), and claims about the role of individual and household traits in generating wealth far exceed current empirical knowledge (Freeland 2012, Gokhale & Villarreal…”