Research Category: Studies of Wealth Inequity

Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989-2019

September 28, 2022

The Geographic Distribution of Extreme Wealth in the U.S.

July 28, 2022

Data from a Native CDFI yield new insights on wealth gap in Indian Country

July 27, 2022

Many studies of the racial wealth gap rely on the Survey of Consumer Finances for information (SCF) but the SCF only contains a small number of Native American respondents. Researchers…

Stuck on the Ladder: Intragenerational wealth mobility in the United States

July 27, 2022

Racial Wealth Disparities: Reconsidering the Roles of Human Capital and Inheritance

July 27, 2022

Large, sweeping research paper that adds to common analyses of wealth using the Survey of Consumer Finances by building in an estimate of the value of defined benefit retirement plans.…

Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020

July 27, 2022

Analysis looks at size of racial wealth gaps back to 1860 and finds slow convergence through to 1980 and then a widening again since then.

Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances

July 27, 2020

Long-standing and substantial wealth disparities between families in different racial and ethnic groups were little changed since 2016, the typical White family has eight times the wealth of the typical…

Explained | Racial Wealth Gap

July 27, 2020

The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes

June 28, 2020