Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860–2020
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Keywords
Wealth gap; Racial wealth gap; inequality; historical data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2022-07-25 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2022-07-25 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2022-07-25 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-URE-2022-07-25 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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