蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
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Analytic Approaches to Measuring the Black-White Wealth Gap
蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
(pp. 186–90)
Abstract
Does the measurement of the racial wealth gap shift depending on the model, method, and dataset used? We contrast the traditional mean Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with the distributional Recentered Influence Function (RIF) methods. The untransformed, logarithm-transformed, and inverse hyperbolic sine-transformed versions in both the Survey of Consumer Finances and Panel Study of Income Dynamics datasets exhibit similarities. The Oaxaca-Blinder (mean) decomposition highlights that receiving an inheritance explains a larger portion of the racial wealth gap than educational attainment. Conversely, the RIF method at the median suggests that educational attainment accounts for more of the wealth gap than inheritance receipt.Citation
Toney, Jermaine, Fenaba R. Addo, and Darrick Hamilton. 2024. "Analytic Approaches to Measuring the Black-White Wealth Gap." 蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings 114: 186–90. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241124Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
- G51 Household Finance: Household Saving, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
- I20 Education and Research Institutions: General
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination