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

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. Also includes estimates of value of human capital differences and inheritances by race.

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