Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts

Experience of material hardship can adversely affect a family’s ability to make long-term investments in children’s development. We examine whether material hardship is associated with one indicator of such investments: participation in a tax-advantaged college savings plan (529 plan). Data for this...

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Main Authors: Wikoff, Nora, Huang, Jin, Kim, Youngmi, Sherraden, Michael
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46576/