Research Category: Studies of Wealth Inequity

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

The economic impact of closing the racial wealth gap

July 27, 2019

The persistent racial wealth gap in the United States is a burden on Black Americans as well as the overall economy. New research quantifies the impact of closing the gap…

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

July 27, 2019

Baradan studies role that financial structures have played in creating and maintaining the racial wealth gap.