Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap

Examining the gender wealth gap

Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth in general rest on the assumption of pooling and equal sharing of resources by all members of a given household. Examining the distribution of income and wealth within the household context is almost always hampered by the lack of individual level data. Based on unique individual level wealth data from the German S...

Racial Wealth Disparities : Is the Gap Closing ?

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the session "Ethnicity, Race and Socioeconomic Outcomes" at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, March 23-25, 2000 and at the conference on "Saving, Intergenerational Transfers and the Distribution of Wealth" at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, June 7-9, 2000. We thank Maureen Conway, R...

Black-white achievement gap and family wealth.

This article examines the extent to which family wealth affects the Black-White test score gap for young children based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (aged 3-12). This study found little evidence that wealth mediated the Black-White test scores gaps, which were eliminated when child and family demographic covariates were held constant. However, family wealth had a stronger ass...

“’Twice as Hard for Half as Much’: Wealth Privilege and the Racial Wealth Gap”

Those who study the racial wealth gap are in a bind. Although the Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) serves as an effective framework to understand the wealth gap, it is itself incapable of explaining a key question: why the racial wealth gap is so much larger than the racial income gap. This paper introduces the Wealth Privilege (WP) model as an alternative vehicle to ground future analysis. Unlike t...