The concept of generations has become increasingly important in the social science fields to
explain diverse phenomena affecting organizations. This is especially true in the family …

Wealth ownership in the United States has long been concentrated in the hands of a small
minority of the population, yet researchers have paid relatively little attention to the causes …

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 award-winning Black Wealth/White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality
based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking …

Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks,
bonds, savings accounts, and other investments--along with continuing racial discrimination …

Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics indicate that African-American men are
one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men. The large discrepancy is due to a black …

This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings
behavior, ie wealth accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a …

Analyzing Oppression presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles
the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is …

Objectives. We investigated the role of socioeconomic factors in Black–White disparities in
preterm birth (PTB). Methods. We used the population-based California Maternal and Infant …

I look at wealth trends from 1962 to 2013, particularly for the middle class. Asset prices
plunged between 2007 and 2010 but then rebounded from 2010 to 2013. The most telling …