Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households: Current Availability and Options for Improvement. A Report in the Series Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households

摘要

Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households is a series of reports on poverty, asset building, and social policy. The purpose of the series is to assess the nascent state of knowledge and policy development and to synthesize recent progress in these areas. Specifically, the reports in the series will: evaluate what is known regarding the measures, distributions, determinants, and effects of asset holding; develop a portrait of the assets of low-income households; develop conceptual frameworks for viewing assets and liabilities; assess the strengths and weaknesses of data sources on assets and liabilities; chart directions for future research; examine the effects of means-tested program policies on asset building; and inform subsequent discussions of public policy.