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Asset Building Financial Inclusion Working Paper

Cash-Flow and Savings Practices of Low-Income Households: Evidence From a Follow-Up Study of IDA Participants

By CSD • February 9, 2012November 4, 2021

This study uses a survey of participants from an Individual Development Account (IDA) matched savings intervention to examine self-reported financial practices (cash flow and savings) five years after the intervention terminated. Latent class analysis produced three groups of financial practices – high, medium, and low functioning. Results showed that some low-income households are carefully managing their finances. Psychological sense of mastery was positively related to high functioning cash-flow and savings. The IDA intervention had no association with latent class membership. Antipoverty interventions should assess the financial practices of participants at the time of service enrollment. Further, social service providers should not assume that households are not already carefully managing their finances.

Subsequent publication: Rothwell, D. W., & Sultana, N. (2013). Cash-flow and savings practices of low-income households: Evidence from a follow-up study of IDA participants. Journal of Social Service Research, 39(2), 281–292. doi:10.1080/01488376.2012.754828

Citation

Rothwell, D. W., & Sultana, N. (2012). Cash-flow and savings practices of low-income households: Evidence from a follow-up study of IDA participants (CSD Working Paper No. 12-07). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development. 

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2012David RothwellIndividual Development Account (IDA)Nahid Sultana

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