Wealth in America: Trends in Wealth Inequality

By Lisa A. Keister. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Tracking the numbers: Across accounting and finance, organizations and markets (2009, background): “Differences among social groups with respect to investment holdings have long been noticed (e.g., Swedberg, 2005; Keister, 2000), and differences in financial power between institutional and non-institutional investors/ traders are obvious.”
Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India (2013, background): “These changes took place in tandem with changes in the composition of inheritances over the nineteenth century, with land becoming less important and moveable property, including financial assets, more so, following the overall trend in the composition of wealth as the US became increasingly urbaniz”
Wealth and Welfare: Divergent Moral Reactions to Ethical Consumer Choices (2016, background): “Others estimate that the top 1% hold nearly 50% of the wealth, a number at its highest since the Great Depression (Keister 2000; Norton and Ariely 2011; Wolff 2002).”
Dissecting the Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status on Mental Health in Young Adulthood (2008, background): “Many Black and Hispanic families— with both relatively low and high incomes—have zero net worth or negative net worth (Keister 2000:10).”
The One Percent (2014, methodology): “Second, to study issues regarding changes in income and wealth over time, researchers have relied on several data sets that contain repeated cross sections or longitudinal data on the same households (Gouskova & Stafford 2009; Keister 2000a,b; Kopczuk et al. 2010).”
Conservative Protestants and Wealth: How Religion Perpetuates Asset Poverty1 (2008, background): “Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly in the U.S. because asset ownership is highly concentrated (Keister 2000, 2005; Wolff 2004).”
Dynamic Microsimulation: A Methodological Survey (2001, methodology): “For example, CORSIM (Keister, 2000), DYNAMOD (Baekgaard, 1998), and MIDAS (Stroombergen et al.”
Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt and Social Inequality in the Contemporary United States1 (2010, background): “Many sociologists have emphasized the importance of wealth as a measure of inequality and as a mechanism by which it is created (Oliver and Shapiro 1995; Conley 1999, 2001; Keister 2000, 2005; Shapiro 2004).”
Who Wants to be an Evolutionary Theorist? (2001, background): “Simulation and ABM give researchers the opportunity to see what happens next without being constrained by meager research budgets and incomplete data sets (Keister, 2000).”