Savings Education: Learning the Value of Self-Control

Creator

Patricia A. Hutton
James M. Holmes

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

April 2005

Abstract

This article proposes a funded school-based allowance and savings program targeted at economically disadvantaged students with poor educational outcomes to help poor children develop less present-biased time preference patterns so as to increase student effort and skills acquisition, avoid the pitfalls that pave the path of adolescence and move from poverty to middle class status as adults. ...

Keywords

Education--Finance, Life skills

Extent

20

Volume

13

Issue

28

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Citation: Hutton, P. A. & Holmes, J. M. (2005, April 22). Savings Education: Learning the Value of Self-Control. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 13(28). Retrieved [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v13n28.

Identifier

E11-00450

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Hutton, Patricia A. and Holmes, James M., "Savings Education: Learning the Value of Self-Control" (2005). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 164.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/164