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Do Child Development Accounts Promote Account Holding, Saving, and Asset Accumulation for Children's Future? Evidence from a Statewide Randomized Experiment

  1. Yunju Nam,
  2. Youngmi Kim,
  3. Margaret Clancy,
  4. Robert Zager,
  5. Michael Sherraden

Article first published online: 23 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1002/pam.21652

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Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Volume 32, Issue 1, pages 6–33, Winter 2013

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Nam, Y., Kim, Y., Clancy, M., Zager, R. and Sherraden, M. (2013), Do Child Development Accounts Promote Account Holding, Saving, and Asset Accumulation for Children's Future? Evidence from a Statewide Randomized Experiment. J. Pol. Anal. Manage., 32: 6–33. doi: 10.1002/pam.21652

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