Ruel, Erin; Hauser, Robert - In: Demography 50 (2013) 4, pp. 1155-1176
To assess and explain the United States’ gender wealth gap, we use the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study to examine wealth accumulated by a single cohort over 50 years by gender, by marital status, and limited to the respondents who are their family’s best financial reporters. We find large...