The Center for Social Development is broadly engaged in designing and testing social innovations that promote full inclusion, fair treatment, and achievement of one’s full potential. Our research is transdisciplinary and encompasses seven primary areas.

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Research from 2005

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The Homestead Act of the Nineteenth Century and Its Influence on Rural Lands, Trina Williams Shanks

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The Impacts of the American Dream Demonstration on Savings and Asset-Building in Canada, Peter Nares

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The Missouri-Kansas Asset-Building Coalition and Policy Project: An Initiative in Cross-State Policy Making for Wealth Building, Njeri Kagotho and Gena Gunn

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The Universal Model in SEED, Michael Sherraden and Margaret M. Clancy

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Way to Give: A Guide to Connecting, Giving and Asset Building, Stephanie C. Boddie and Prema Thirupathy

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Way to Give: Tithing Practices That Benefit Families, Congregations, and Communities, Stephanie Boddie

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Wealth Building Strategies in Rural States: Are They Doing Enough?, William Schweke

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What Does an IDA Cost? Some Measures From ADD, Mark Schreiner

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Whose Ownership? Which Society?, Robert Hockett

Research from 2004

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An Agenda on Productive Aging: Research, Policy, and Practice, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Michael Sherraden, Amanda Moore McBride, Jim Hinterlong, Philip Rozario, and Fengyan Tang

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Asset Building: Increasing Capacity for Performance Measurement and Effects+B200, Amanda Moore McBride, Stacie Lintvedt Hanson, Sondra Beverly, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, and Lissa Johnson

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Asset Building Through Community Participation: Re-Stocking Pastoralists Following Drought in Northern Kenya, Carolyn Lesorogol

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Civic Engagement Among Low-Income and Low-Wealth Families: in Their Words, Amanda Moore McBride, Margaret S. Sherraden, and Suzanne Pritzer

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College Savings Plans: A Platform for Inclusive Saving Policy?, Margaret M. Clancy, Peter Orszag, and Michael Sherraden

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Cost-Effectiveness in Individual Development Accounts, Mark Schreiner, Guat Tin Ng, and Michael Sherraden

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Evaluation of the American Dream Demonstration: Final Evaluation Report, Gregory Mills, Rhiannon Patterson, Larry Orr, and Donna DeMarco

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Family Saving and Community Assets: Designing and Implementing Family-Centered, Place-Based Individual Development Account Programs, Stephanie C. Boddie, Michael Sherraden, Lorlene Hoyt, Prema Thirupathy, Trina Shanks, Solana Rice, and Margaret Sherraden

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Integrating Savings Into Microenterprise Programs for the Poor: Do Institutions Matter?, Fred M. Ssewamala and Michael Sherraden

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Kitchen Capitalism: Microenterprise in Low-Income Households, Margaret S. Sherraden, Cynthia K. Sanders, and Michael Sherraden

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Match Rates, Individual Development Accounts, and Saving by the Poor, Mark Schreiner

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Measuring Saving, Mark Schreiner

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Organizing for Economic Empowerment of Battered Women: Women's Savings Accounts, Cynthia K. Sanders and Meg Schnabel

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Overcoming Poverty: Supported Saving as a Household Development Strategy, Margaret S. Sherraden, Trina Williams, Amanda Moore McBride, and Fred Ssewamala

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Profile of Older Adults Participating IDAs: Findings from the American Dream Demonstration, Michelle Putnam, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Lin Zhang, and Michael Sherraden

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Program Costs for Individual Development Accounts: Final Figures From Captc in Tulsa, Mark Schreiner

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Racial Differences in Performance in a Matched Savings Program, Michal Grinstein-Weiss and Michael Sherraden

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Saving for Microenterprise in Individual Development Accounts: Lessons From the American Dream Demonstration, Fred M. Ssewamala and Michael Sherraden

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Saving for Post-Secondary Education in Individual Development Accounts, Min Zhan and Mark Schreiner

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Saving Performance in Individual Development Accounts: Does Marital Status Matter?, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Min Zhan, and Michael Sherraden

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Savings Outcomes of Older Adults Participating IDAs: Findings from the American Dream Demonstration, Michelle Putnam, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Lin Zhang, and Michael Sherraden

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SEED Account Monitoring Report 2003, Margaret Clancy

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State IDA Policy Brief: Promoting Asset Building Through the Earned Income Tax Credit, Center for Social Development and Corporation for Enterprise Development

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Support for Microenterprise as Asset-Building: Concepts, Good Practices, and Measurement, Mark Schreiner

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The Impacts of Household Wealth on Child Development, Trina Williams Shanks

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The Voluntary Cultural Year in Germany: Perceptions of Volunteers, Institutions, Politicians, and Society, Gesa Birnkraut, Ines E. Hein, and Frederick Loock

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Toward a Global Research Agenda on Civic Service, Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden

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Voluntariado Juvenil Y Servicio Cívico en América Latina y el Caribe: Una Posible Estrategia de Desarrollo Económico y Social [Youth volunteerism and civic service in Latin America and the Caribbean: A potential strategy for social and economic development], Lissa Johnson, Carlos Benítez, Amanda Moore McBride, and René Olate

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What States Can Do to Remove Penalties for Saving, Center for Social Development and Corporation for Enterprise Development

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Youth Civic Service in Europe, Association of Voluntary Service Organizations

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Youth Service: A Comprehensive Perspective, Amanda Moore McBride, Suzanne Pritzker, Dolly Daftary, and Fengyan Tang

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Youth Service and Elder Service in Comparative Perspective, Nancy Morrow-Howell and Fengyan Tang

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Youth Volunteerism and Civic Service in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Potential Strategy for Social and Economic Development, Lissa Johnson, Carlos Benítez, Amanda Moore McBride, and René Olate

Research from 2003

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A Comparative Analysis of Rural and Urban Saving Performance in Individual Development Accounts, Jami Curley and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

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American Indian Tribal Communities and Individual Development Account (IDA) Policy, Juliet King, Sarah Hicks, Karen Edwards, and Alisa Larson

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Asset-Building Policy as a Response to Wealth Inequality: Drawing Implications From the Homestead Act, Trina Williams Shanks

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Assets Effects on Women: A Study of Urban Households in Nepal, Shanta Pandey

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Assets in the Context of Welfare Theory: A Developmentalist Interpretation, James Midgley

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Children's Development Accounts: The Oregon Story, Beverly Stein and Robert Freedman

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Civic Service Worldwide: Social Development Goals and Partnerships, Amanda Moore McBride, Carlos Benítez, and Kwofie Danso

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College Savings Plans and Individual Development Accounts: Potential for Partnership, Margaret Clancy