Financial Risk, Assets, and Poverty
Date & Time
Apr 3, 2009,
9:00 am-3:15 pm EDT
Location
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall Fisher Classroom, Room 1220 Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Please RSVP to attend this workshop by emailing npcinfo@umich.edu, indicating whether you will attend breakfast and/or lunch.
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April 3, 2009
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Fisher Classroom, Room 1220
| 9 AM - 9:45 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:45 AM - 10 AM |
Opening Remarks, Introductions Michael Barr, University of Michigan |
| 10 AM - 11 AM |
Testing Long-term Impacts of Individual Development Accounts and Asset Building on Social and Economic Well-being Michal Grinstein‐Weiss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; William Gale, The Brookings Institution; William Rohe, Center for Urban and Regional Studies; and Michael Sherraden, Washington University, Center for Social Development Discussant: Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan |
| 11 AM - 12 PM |
Financial Literacy, Cognitive Biases and Payday Lending Adair Morse, University of Chicago and Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago Discussant: John P. Caskey, Swarthmore College |
| 12 PM - 1 PM |
Lunch |
| 1 PM - 2 PM |
Testing Strategies to Increase Saving and Retention in Individual Development Account Programs Cäzilia Loibl, The Ohio State University; and Emily Haisley, and George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University Discussant: Jane Dokko, Federal Reserve Board |
| 2 PM - 3 PM |
A Proposal to Examine the Effect of Relaxed Welfare Asset Rules on Auto Ownership, Employment and Welfare Rolls: A Longitudinal Analysis Lorien Rice, Mills College and Cynthia Bansak, St. Lawrence University Discussant: Jim Sullivan, Notre Dame University |
| 3 PM - 3:15 PM |
Concluding Remarks Rebecca Blank, The Brookings Institution |
