gradient in wealth.We show that individuals with lower genetic scores are more prone to reporting "extreme beliefs" (e … wealth might therefore exacerbate the consequences of labor market inequality. … attainment independently predict household wealth in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). This relationship is partly explained …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

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 …

types of inequality/discrimination, e.g. based on gender, race or sexual orientation. An inquiry into the mechanisms of the …

types of inequality/discrimination, e.g. based on gender, race or sexual orientation. An inquiry into the mechanisms of the …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and noncollege households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is …

among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality … while house price increases do the opposite. Inheritances exacerbate absolute wealth inequality but reduce rel …-ative inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized …

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 …