Foreword / Melvin L. Oliver
Introduction / Thomas M. Shapiro and Edward N. Wolff
Pt. I. Overview of Asset Ownership in the United States
Ch. 1. Importance of Assets / Thomas M. Shapiro
Ch. 2. Recent Trends in Wealth Ownership, from 1983 to 1998 / Edward N. Wolff
Ch. 3. Access to Wealth Among Older Workers in the 1990s and how it is Distributed: Data from the Health and Retirement Study / Richard V. Burkhauser and Robert R. Weathers II
Ch. 4. Role of Intergenerational Transfers in Spreading Asset Ownership / Mark O. Wilhelm
Pt. II. Asset Accumulation Among the Poor
Ch. 5. Asset Accumulation Among Low-Income Households / Stacie Carney and William G. Gale
Ch. 6. More than Money: The Role of Assets in the Survival Strategies and Material Well-Being of the Poor / Kathryn Edin
Ch. 7. Housing as a Means of Asset Accumulation: A Good Strategy for the Poor? / Nancy A. Denton
Pt. III. Policies Designed to Promote Asset Ownership Among the Poor
Ch. 8. Un(Credit)Worthy Poor: Historical Perspectives on Policies to Expand Assets and Credit / Mark J. Stern
Ch. 9. Asset-Building Policy and Programs for the Poor / Michael Sherraden
Ch. 10. Assets and the Tax Code / Laurence S. Seidman
Ch. 11. Wrap-Up With Rapporteurs / John Sibley Butler, Dalton Conley and Robert Haveman / [et al.].
