College is Not Enough : Higher Education Does Not Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps

Differences in college and post-graduate degree attainment alone explain less than half of Black-White and Hispanic-White wealth gaps in a standard wealth regression. Differences in family structure and measures of luck such as income windfalls and inheritances explain even less. Measures of financial decisionmaking, such as the share of housing in total assets and debt ratios, are much more important

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Year of publication:	2019
Authors:	Emmons, William R.
Other Persons:	Ricketts, Lowell (contributor)
Publisher:	[2019]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Ethnische Gruppe \| Ethnic group \| Hochschule \| Higher education institution \| Ethnische Diskriminierung \| Ethnic discrimination \| Studium \| University education \| Schwarze Menschen \| Black people \| Rasse \| Race \| Vermögensverteilung \| Wealth distribution \| Vermögen \| Wealth \| Bildungsniveau \| Educational achievement \| Bildungsverhalten \| Educational behaviour

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (34 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Review, Vol. 99, Issue 1, pp. 7-39, 2017 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2017 erstellt
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; i24 ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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