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SUBMITTER: Pfeffer FT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6634987 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pfeffer Fabian T FT Killewald Alexandra A
Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world 20190101
The black-white gap in household wealth is large and well documented. Here, we visualize how this racial wealth gap persists across generations. Animating the flow of individuals between the relative wealth position of parents and their adult children, we show that the disadvantage of black families is a consequence both of wealth inequality in prior generations and race differences in the transmission of wealth positions across generations: Black children both have less wealthy parents on avera ...[more]