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Overview

Michael Sherraden is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on several subfields including Education, Accounting, Gender Studies, Economics and Econometrics, and Safety Research.

Their scholarly output encompasses a range of topics, notably:

  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Housing Market and Economics

Some recent publications reflecting their research interests include:

  • "Cash Transfers and Health," 2021, Annual Review of Public Health
  • "Addressing the Burden of Education Financing in Low and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: The Role of Savings Accounts, Cash Transfers, and Other Income Sources," 2021, Journal of Family and Economic Issues
  • "Effective finance to increase financial well-being for low-income families: Empirical examination and policy implications," 2022, Journal of Consumer Affairs
  • "Experimental Effects of Child Development Accounts on Financial Capability of Young Mothers," 2021, Journal of Family and Economic Issues
  • "Toward Finance as a Public Good," 2021, Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael Sherraden include Jin Huang, Margaret Clancy, Margaret S. Sherraden, Sicong Sun, and Trina Shanks.

Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Journal of Family and Economic Issues
  • Social Service Review
  • Encyclopedia of Social Work
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Assets and the Poor: New American Welfare Policy

    Michael Sherraden;Neil Gilbert

  • Institutional determinants of saving: implications for low-income households and public policy

    Sondra G Beverly;Michael Sherraden

  • Can the Poor Save?: Saving and Asset Building in Individual Development Accounts

    Mark Schreiner;Michael Sherraden

  • Productive Aging: Concepts and Challenges

    Nancy Morrow-Howell;James Hinterlong;Michael W. Sherraden

  • Assets, Expectations, and Children’s Educational Achievement in Female‐Headed Households

    Min Zhan;Michael Sherraden

  • Income, Institutions, and Saving Performance in Individual Development Accounts:

    Michael Sherraden;Mark Schreiner;Sondra Beverly

  • Asset Building as a Community Revitalization Strategy

    Deborah Page-Adams;Michael Sherraden

  • Stakeholding: Notes on a Theory of Welfare Based on Assets

    Michael Sherraden

  • Effects of assets on attitudes and behaviors: Advance test of a social policy proposal

    Gautam N. Yadama;Michael Sherraden

  • Do parental assets matter for children's educational attainment?: Evidence from mediation tests

    Youngmi Kim;Michael Sherraden

  • Asset Building Policy and Programs for the Poor

    Michael Sherraden

  • Rethinking Social Welfare: Toward Assets.

    Michael Sherraden

  • Effects of child development accounts on early social-emotional development: an experimental test.

    Jin Huang;Michael Sherraden;Youngmi Kim;Margaret Clancy

  • Building assets from birth: a global comparison of Child Development Account policies

    Vernon Loke;Michael Sherraden

  • Do Child Development Accounts Promote Account Holding, Saving, and Asset Accumulation for Children's Future? Evidence from a Statewide Randomized Experiment.

    Yunju Nam;Youngmi Kim;Margaret Clancy;Robert Zager

  • Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment

    Min Zhan;Michael Sherraden

  • Grand Challenges for Social Work

    Edwina Uehara;Marilyn Flynn;Rowena Fong;John Brekke

  • Ending Social Work's Grudge Match: Problems Versus Strengths

    J. Curtis McMillen;Lisa A. Morris PhD;Michael Sherraden

  • Saving Performance in the American Dream Demonstration: A National Demonstration of Individual Development Accounts

    Mark Schreiner;Margaret Clancy;Michael Sherraden

  • The Forms and Nature of Civic Service: A Global Assessment

    Amanda Moore McBride;Carlos Benítez;Michael Sherraden;Kwofie Danso

  • Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy.

    Edward N. Wolff;Michael Sherraden

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Morrow-Howell
Nancy Morrow-Howell Washington University in St. Louis
Richard P. Barth
Richard P. Barth University of Maryland, Baltimore
John S. Brekke
John S. Brekke University of Southern California
Claudia J. Coulton
Claudia J. Coulton Case Western Reserve University
Karina L. Walters
Karina L. Walters University of Washington
Paula S. Nurius
Paula S. Nurius University of Washington
J. David Hawkins
J. David Hawkins University of Washington
Deborah K. Padgett
Deborah K. Padgett New York University
Mark W. Fraser
Mark W. Fraser University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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