Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion

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  1. Children’s Savings Account Program: School Outcomes Report

    Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) are interventions that seek to build assets for children to use as longterm investments (Goldberg, 2005; Sherraden, 1991), particularly for postsecondary education. Provided through financial institutions, CSAs generally include progressive features, such as initial seed deposits, financial incentives for attaining certain academic benchmarks, or matches for savings deposits (e.g., Elliott & Lewis, 2014). Distinct among financial aid policies for their cultivation of improved outcomes throughout children’s lives, CSAs aim to equip children, particularly those who are disadvantaged, with assets that have demonstrated associations with academic achievement (Elliott, Kite, O’Brien, Lewis, & Palmer, 2016) and educational attainment (Elliott, 2013; Elliott & Beverly, 2011). CSAs also connect households to mainstream financial institutions (Friedline, 2014), activating families to save for their children’s futures and their later financial well-being.

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    Authors

    William Elliott, PhD, Melinda Lewis, Megan O’Brien, PhD, AEDI, Christina LiCalsi, PhD, Leah Brown, Natalie Tucker, Nicholas Sorensen, PhD, American Institutes for Research

    Report Year 2017