He also serves as a faculty associate for the Center for Social Development and he is a Senior Research Fellow for New America Foundation’s Asset Building Program. Dr. Elliott is a leading researcher in the field of children’s savings and college matriculation and success. He has written extensively on the relationship between assets and children’s educational outcomes. Recently the Federal Reserve in St. Louis highlighted his work on college matriculation and student debt in their Annual Report. Further, his research has served as the impetus for Children’s Savings Account (CSA) programs and policies across the U.S., such as Kindergarten to College (K2C) in San Francisco, College Savings Accounts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and the American Dream Accounts Act recently introduced into Congress.