Recent work has documented a rising degree of wealth inequality in the United States between 1983 and 1998. In this … data on the distribution of wealth between 1983 and 1998. We find that polarization between homeowners and tenants, as well … as among different educational groups, continuously increased from 1983 to 1998, while polarization by income classes …

The standard official measure of household economic well-being in the United States is gross money income. The general … measure to account for one such determinant: household wealth. We then analyze the level and distribution of economic well … household wealth to household income considerably increases measured inequality and the share of income from wealth in …