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Research Category: Studies of Wealth Inequity

  • Systematic Inequality: How America’s Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap

    July 27, 2018

    CAP report on the disparity in Black and White wealth in the US. Offers a comparison of current wealth levels, discussion of barriers to Black wealth accumulation and policy recommendations…

  • Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016

    July 27, 2018

    No progress has been made in reducing income and wealth inequalities between Black and White households over the past 70 years.

  • The Asset Value of Whiteness

    July 27, 2017

  • Wealth Inequalities in Greater Boston: Do Race and Ethnicity Matter?

    July 27, 2016

    Uses data from the Natl Asset Scorecard for Communities of color to provide detailed information on financial assests, going beyond the "traditional black-white divide."

  • Reducing Racial Wealth Inequalities in Greater Boston: Building a Shared Agenda

    July 27, 2015

    Written as a follow-up to The Color of Wealth, this report is the product of six months of discussion between the Fed and a group of external stakeholders. It presents…

  • The Color of Wealth in Boston

    July 27, 2015

  • Bootstraps Are For Black Kids: Race, Wealth and the Impact of Intergenerational Transfers on Adult Outcomes

    July 27, 2015

    A greater proportion of White adult children receive financial support from their parents than Black adult children in all three categories of parental support (homeownership, higher education, and other).

  • The Racial Wealth Gap: Why Policy Matters

    July 27, 2015

    The median White household had $111,146 in wealth holdings, compared to $7,113 for median Black, and $8,348 for median Latino.

  • Less Than Equal, Racial Disparities in Wealth Accumulation

    July 27, 2013

    Wealth grows fastest among White families in their prime earning years, and slowest for Black families