Reports

Reports

The following reports are representative of PolicyLab’s previous and ongoing work.

Asset Building and Savings

• Savings Matches, Small Dollar Accounts, and Childcare Workers’ Decisions to Save
  2012-2015 Appalachian Savings Project. A report for the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement. An accompanying brief summarizes key findings.
• Appalachian Savings Project: Year 1 Outcomes. A report for the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement. An accompanying brief summarizes key findings.
• An Assessment of Policies to Promote Financial Savings and Asset Building.
• The Role of Asset-Building Services for Community-Based Tax Preparation Programs. A report for the Center for Economic Progress.

Financial Coaching

• Financial Coaching: A New Approach for Asset Building? A report for the Annie E. Casey Foundation. A brief is available here.

Homebuyer Education and Counseling

• Homeownership Education and Counseling: Do We Know What Works? Research Institute for Housing America Special Report.
• Lessons from the Front Lines: Counselor Perspectives on Default Interventions. Sponsored by the Homeownership Preservation Initiative.
• Measuring the Delivery Costs of Prepurchase Homeownership Education and Counseling. A NeighborWorks America Publication.

Homeownership Policy

• More than Shelter: A Grantmaker’s Guide to Housing Programs and Policy. Neighborhood Funders Group.
• State Policy Responses to Foreclosure: 2008. A report for the Pew Center on the States.

Program Development

• Designing a Financial Planning and Investment Program for EARN Alumni: Summary of Research Findings. A report for EARN.
• Formula for Success: Questions and Answers for Local Leaders Designing a Foreclosure Intervention Program. A NeighborWorks America Publication

Additional reports are available here.