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Article: Black/white differences in wealth.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Economic Perspectives
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
- Author:
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Introduction and summary
The gap in wealth holdings between African-Americans and white Americans is enormous--much larger than the gap in earnings. For example, Menchik and Jianakoplos (1997) find that the average wealth of black households is 20 percent of the average wealth of white households in the 1976 National Longitudinal Survey of mature men and 23 percent in the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances, even though average black income is 60 percent and 50 percent of average white income, respectively, in the two samples. Blau and Graham (1990) use data from the 1976 and 1978 waves of the National Longitudinal Surveys of young men and women and find that, on ...
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