Wealth In America: Contents

By Lisa A. Keister. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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THE GENDER ASSET GAP: WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? (2006, background): “The determinants of household wealth: Our studies It is fairly well accepted that among the main determinants of household wealth are the education and current income of its adult members and whether they received an inheritance (Keister 2000).”
The democratization of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions (2007, background): “According to Keister (2000), between 1983 and 1995 all income groups in the USA experienced a decline in wealth but by different degrees.”
Race, Family Structure, and Wealth: The Effect of Childhood Family on Adult Asset Ownership (2004, background): “Mean and median net assets in both 1985 and 1998 are significantly lower for blacks and Hispanics than for whites, and the estimates are consistent with other estimates of household wealth (Keister 2000a).”
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).”
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).”
THE WEALTH OF SINGLE WOMEN: MARITAL STATUS AND PARENTHOOD IN THE ASSET ACCUMULATION OF YOUNG BABY BOOMERS IN THE UNITED STATES (2006, background): “Education is directly related to adult wealth for a number of reasons (Melvin O. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro 1995; Wolff 1998; Keister 2000b).”
Religion and Wealth: The Role of Religious Affiliation and Participation in Early Adult Asset Accumulation (2003, background): “Between the 1960s and the 1990s, total household wealth grew from $8 trillion to nearly $24 trillion (Keister 2000b).1 Between 1989 and 1998, median household net worth increased more than 20%, and the number of billionaires in the Forbes 400 rose from 85 to 267 (Kennickell 2000).”
Rethinking the Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks (2009, background): “…and Sandefur 1994), neighborhood resources (Ainsworth 2002; Wilson 1996), school resources (Condron and Roscigno 2003; Roscigno 1998), and wealth (Conley 1999; Keister 2000; Oliver and Shapiro 1995), may combine to countervail the advantages that are accrued by good attitudes toward school.”
WEALTH INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES (2000, methodology): “Few wealth researchers address issues of family structure, but both survey and simulated estimates suggest that gender and family structure affect both cross-sectional wealth ownership and longitudinal patterns of wealth mobility (Keister 2000b).”
Wealth, Race, and Inter-Neighborhood Migration (2006, background): “Racial differences in wealth are substantial and far exceed racial differences in income (Keister 2000; Oliver and Shapiro 1995), largely due to sharp disparities in home equity (Krivo and Kaufman 2004).”
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).”