more than 15,000 households interviewed during the 1860 federal census exhibit sharp differences in wealth holdings between … between wealth and the recorded household characteristics, and decompose the wealth gaps into treatment and characteristic … effects. In addition to higher wealth holdings of white households as compared to free African-Americans in general, there are …

We explore the extent to which the huge race gap in wealth can be explained with properly constructed income and … demographic variables. In some instances we explain the entire wealth gap with income and demographics provided that we estimate … the wealth model on a sample of whites. However, we typically explain a much smaller fraction when we estimate the wealth …

roughly two-thirds of the overall wealth gap …

racial differences in the magnitude and composition of wealth and the reasons for them. On average, young black families hold … 18 percent of the wealth of young white families, and hold their wealth in proportionately different forms. Even after … controlling for racial differences in income and other demographic factors, as much as three-quarters of the wealth gap remains …

-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …

lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …

with other skilled workers than with unskilled workers--and by race and ethnicity, using simulation methods to measure … education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as skill is often … correlated with race and ethnicity. Finally, we attempt to distinguish between segregation by skill based on general crowding of …

factors and environments in explaining both cognitive and noncognitive ability differentials by ethnicity and race. Policies …