of Consumer Finances (SCF), augmented by household-level estimates of defined benefit (DB) pension wealth developed by …In this paper, we present updated measures of racial disparities in wealth using the most recent data from the Survey … Sabelhaus and Volz (2020). Including this important asset, we find that racial wealth disparities are smaller than the numbers …

Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, this paper updates and extends previous research on the racial wealth … gap in the United States. We explore several hypotheses that help explain differential wealth accumulation by racial … to the literature. We find that observable factors account for the entire wealth gap between white and Hispanic families …

-quarter of total household wealth in Europe provides further corroboration for this finding. …In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and …