Center for American Progress
Center for American Progress
The SSRC collaborated with the Asset Policy Project at the Center for American Progress to co-host the Behavioral Economics at Tax Time Webinar in April 2014. During this Webinar, presenters discussed two current research projects, Refund to Savings and SaveUSA, that aim to understand what works to encourage low-income tax filers to save and invest part of their refund.
Click here to view materials from the Webinar!
Presenters:
Joe Valenti, Director of Asset Building at the Center for American Progress
Dr. Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Associate Director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis
Gayle Hamilton, Senior Fellow in the Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area at MDRC
Related Research:
Encouraging Low & Moderate Income Tax Filers to Save: Implementation & Interim Impact Findings from the SaveUSA Evaluation, 2014
Creating Economic Security: Using Progressive Savings Matches to Counter Upside-Down Tax Incentives, 2013
Financial Access in a Brave New Banking World, 2013
Helping Working Families Build Wealth at Tax Time, 2013
SaveUSA Program Implementation: Insights from the Field, 2012