disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that … other sources, this paper presents seven economic facts about the racial wealth gap in the U.S. We present data on racial … between Black households and White households. While none of the economic factors listed fully explains the racial wealth gap …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of … affluence, income is more important in the US. -- top incomes ; multidimensional measurement ; richness ; wealth ; inequality …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report … income gradient in UK. Standard behavioral risk factors (work, marriage, obesity, exercise, and smoking) almost fully explain …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report … income gradient in UK. Standard behavioral risk factors (work, marriage, obesity, exercise, and smoking) almost fully explain …

cumulative protective effect of education on health outcomes. The less educated suffer a double health penalty in that they begin …A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … distribution of health and income, though not generally in terms of the uni-dimensional distribution of health or income. The paper …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … distribution of health and income, though not generally in terms of the uni-dimensional distribution of health or income. The paper …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … distribution of health and income, though not generally in terms of the uni-dimensional distribution of health or income. The paper …

States. However, these illiquid, non-market forms of wealth are typically excluded from measures of net worth. To the extent … that these broadly held resources substitute for savings, measures of wealth inequality that do not account for DB pensions … and Social Security may be overstated. This paper develops an alternative, expanded wealth concept, augmenting precise net …

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 …