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Using rigorous research, we create innovations in policy and practices that enable individuals, families and communities to achieve life goals and contribute to society.

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Featured Projects

Retirement with Dignity

Retirement with Dignity

Asset building

Building on the Workforce Economic Inclusion and Mobility Project (2023–2025) and with support from the Prudential Foundation, the Retirement with Dignity Project seeks to examine the potential for and challenges associated with the Secure 2.0 Act’s provisions helping lower wage workers build retirement savings via defined contribution plans and other retirement-savings programs.

SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK)

SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK)

Asset Building

The SEED OK experiment, which began in 2007, is a large-scale policy test of universal, automatic, and progressive Child Development Accounts. The CDA uses the Oklahoma 529 College Savings Plan platform.

Financial Capability & Asset Building​ (FCAB)

Financial Capability & Asset Building​ (FCAB)

Asset Building

We are building a body of evidence in financial capability, defined as both the knowledge to make optimal financial decisions and access to appropriate and beneficial financial services.