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

Households hold vastly heterogenous amounts of wealth when they reach retirement, and differences in lifetime earnings … wealth dispersion at retirement, in the context of a rich quantitative model. Modeling voluntary bequests, and realistically … calibrating them, not only generates more wealth dispersion at retirement and reduces the correlation between retirement wealth …