Research Report A Review of Children’s Savings Accounts
Barbara Butrica
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Children’s savings accounts (CSAs) aim to improve the lives of low- and moderate-income people by increasing their financial security, developing their financial capability, and improving their educational outcomes. With their benefits increasingly recognized, the past two decades have witnessed the adoption of and numerous proposals for CSAs. This brief reviews CSAs and their benefits, provides international and domestic CSA examples, and points to selected research on CSAs—including their distributional impact.
Research and Evidence Family and Financial Well-Being Tax and Income Supports Upward Mobility
Expertise Upward Mobility and Inequality Taxes and the Economy Wealth and Financial Well-Being Early Childhood
Tags Economic well-being Individual taxes Income and wealth distribution Kids in context Financial stability Baby bonds and child savings accounts Children and youth