Roll, S., Despard, M., & Miller, S. (2025). Savings incentives and the SECURE 2.0 Act: New evidence on employer-sponsored emergency savings accounts and the Saver’s Match (CSD Research Brief No. 25-12), Washington University, Center for Social Development. https://doi.org/10.7936/bn8y-t719
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Savings Incentives and the SECURE 2.0 Act: New Evidence on Employer-Sponsored Emergency Savings Accounts and the Saver’s Match
Roll, S., Despard, M., & Miller, S. (2025). Savings incentives and the SECURE 2.0 Act: New evidence on employer-sponsored emergency savings accounts and the Saver’s Match (CSD Research Brief No. 25-12), Washington University, Center for Social Development. https://doi.org/10.7936/bn8y-t719
Retirement Plan Access Among Low-Wage Workers in 2024: Implications for SECURE 2.0
Roll, S., Despard, M., & Miller, S. (2025). Retirement plan access among low-wage workers in 2024: Implications for SECURE 2.0 (CSD Research Brief No. 25-10). Washington University, Center for Social Development. https://doi.org/10.7936/k2wj-8b08
Auto-Enrollment, Auto-Escalation, and the Need for Retirement Plan Portability: Implications for SECURE 2.0
Roll, S., Despard, M., & Miller, S. (2025). Auto-enrollment, auto-escalation, and the need for retirement plan portability: Implications for SECURE 2.0 (CSD Research Brief No. 25-11). Washington University, Center for Social Development. https://doi.org/10.7936/xsyc-qw19
How Would Americans Respond to Direct Cash Transfers? Results from Two Survey Experiments
Abstract Universal basic income has gained renewed interest among policy makers and researchers in the United States. Although research indicates that unconditional cash transfers produce diverse benefits for households, public support lags in part because of predicted unemployment and frivolous spending. To understand how Americans would reorganize their lives around unconditional cash transfers, this article […]
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Instability During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Role of Assets and Income Shocks
Chun, Y., Roll, S., Miller, S., Lee, H., Larimore, S., & Grinstein-Weiss, M. (2023). Racial and ethnic disparities in housing instability during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of assets and income shocks. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 6(2), 63–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41996-022-00109-5
Timely and well-targeted financial help during COVID-19: an employer-community partnership for hotel workers in New Orleans
Abstract Economic disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic left many households without the income necessary to meet basic needs. We describe an innovative, community-based partnership between a financial services company, philanthropic funders, and employers to provide financial assistance to hotel workers in New Orleans who lost jobs and income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results […]
Timely and Well-Targeted Financial Assistance during Covid-19
The Social Policy Institute (SPI) at Washington University in St. Louis partnered with PerkUp Financial Health LLC, a financial services technology company, to study an emergency financial assistance program offered to employees of three hotels in New Orleans, LA who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. PerkUp serves as a technology hub for a […]
How do Americans say they will use direct cash transfers? The answer depends on the frequency and the amount of the payment
From discussions of universal basic income in the 2020 presidential debates to repeated stimulus checks during the COVID-19 pandemic, government cash transfers have received a lot of attention recently. When considering a cash transfer program, policymakers usually have an objective in mind, such as reducing economic inequality, improving households’ ability to meet basic needs, or […]
Who relocates, where do they move, and why?
The lack of socioeconomic mobility among marginalized populations leads to the concentration of poverty, a long-standing issue in American cities. Empirical studies on neighborhood effects have found that poverty concentration adversely affects the socioeconomic mobility of residents—associated with their economic well-being, employment, education, health, and safety—in lower-income neighborhoods. Through a variety of neighborhood revitalization projects, […]
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Instability During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Assets and Income Shocks
Chun, Y., Roll, S., Miller, S., Lee, H., Larimore, S, & Grinstein-Weiss, M. (2020). Racial and ethnic disparities in housing instability during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of assets and income shocks (Social Policy Institute Working Paper). Washington University, Social Policy Institute. https//doi.org/10.7936/v0xn-yr31