Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality Fair Enough? seeks to advance our understanding of the public’s multifaceted response to rising inequality by proposing and testing a new framework for studying mass attitudes toward redistributive...
Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth This project investigates inequality in family wealth and its intergenerational consequences. Wealth – understood as the total sum of financial and real assets minus debts – is distributed much more unequally than other aspects...
Wealth and Mobility Study (WAM) Building a New Wealth Data Infrastructure The United States has the highest degree of wealth inequality in the developed world and yet its level of wealth inequality continues to rise. Who has wealth and how it’s obtained is also marked...
Land Lotteries and the Persistence of Inequality An enduring question in social science is the degree to which poverty is a self-perpetuating trap rather than a reflection of more fundamental characteristics. By definition, the poor have less wealth, but is there...
Children’s Savings Accounts Children’s Savings Account (CSA) programs are long-term investments often starting at a child’s birth or upon entry into kindergarten but not coming fully to fruition until a child reaches college age. Given this, many outcomes...
