Research indicates that positions of very high private wealth can often be maintained by
families over many generations. This article puts front and center the institutions …

When studying an outcome Y that is weakly positive but can equal zero (eg, earnings),
researchers frequently estimate an average treatment effect (ATE) for a “log-like” …

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white
Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most …

The difference in the average wealth of Black and white Americans narrowed in the first
century after the Civil War, but remained large and even widened again after 1980. Given …

The extent of economic and political inequality, their change over time, and the forces
shaping them have profound implications for the sustainability of a society and the well …

This article studies the long-run effects of slavery and restrictive Jim Crow institutions on
Black Americans' economic outcomes. We track individual-level census records of each …

We estimate long-run trends in intergenerational relative mobility for representative samples
of the US-born population. Harmonizing all surveys that include father's occupation and own …

This article studies how exclusive social groups shape upward mobility and whether
interactions between low-and high-status peers can integrate the top rungs of the economic …

We study how the spread of the Lost Cause narrative-a revisionist and racist retelling of the
US Civil War-shifted both opinions and behaviors toward reunifying the country and racially …

Was intergenerational economic mobility high in the early twentieth century in the US?
Comparisons of mobility across time are complicated by the constraints of the data available …