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McKernan, Signe-Mary; Ratcliffe, Caroline E.; Simms, … - 2013

How do private transfers differ by race and ethnicity and do such differences explain the racial and ethnic disparity … in wealth? Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study examines private transfers by race and ethnicity and … important differences in private transfers by race and ethnicity: African Americans and Hispanics (both immigrant and …

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Family Structure, Race, and Wealth Ownership : A Longitudinal Exploration of Wealth Accumulation Processes

Keister, Lisa A. - 2001

Researchers have documented racial inequalities in wealth ownership and have offered a variety of explanations to account for these differences. One potentially important contributing factor that has received little attention is racial differences in family structure. This paper explores racial...

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Black-White Wealth Inequality : Is Inheritance the Reason?

Menchik, Paul L.; Jianakoplos, Nancy - 1998

Racial differences in the receipt of financial inheritances help to explain why the average difference in wealth between black and white households is larger than the average difference in income. Using data from a panel of prime-aged males and from a representative survey of the U.S....

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The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth

Doraszelski, Ulrich; Altonji, Joseph G. - 2011

We explore the extent to which the huge race gap in wealth can be explained with properly constructed income and …

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Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances

Bhutta, Neil; Chang, Andrew C.; Dettling, Lisa J.; Hsu, … - 2020

New data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) show that long-standing and substantial wealth disparities between families in different racial and ethnic groups were little changed since the last survey in 2016; the typical White family has eight times the wealth of the typical Black...

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The racial wealth gap, financial aid, and college access

Levine, Phillip B.; Ritter, Dubravka - 2022

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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic

Wolff, Edward Nathan - 2023

Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that the Black/white gap in standard net worth widened from 1989 to 2019 but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social Security and defined benefit pension wealth (both the...

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Portfolio decisions and perceived racial discrimination

Bucciol, Alessandro; Papadovasilaki, Dimitra - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 106 (2023), pp. 1-6

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The socio-economic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa : a social space perspective

Branson, Nicola; Hjellbrekke, Johs.; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2023

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Can baby bonds address the injustice of racial wealth disparities?

McMullen, Steven - In: Review of social economy : the journal for the … 82 (2024) 3, pp. 430-443

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