Source article Tier A
Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860–2020
Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn & Moritz Schularick, 'Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860–2020.' Quarterly Journal of Economics 139, no. 2 (2024): 693–750, doi:10.1093/qje/qjad044; first circulated as NBER Working Paper 30101 (2022).
Custody docket
- Record
- derenoncourt-wealth-of-two-nations-2022
- Type
- article
- Trust tier
- A
- Status
- published
Sources are graded A (primary) / B (secondary academic) / C (secondary journalism) / D (tertiary or contested). See the manifesto’s Evidence Standard for full criteria.
The paper in which Derenoncourt and three co-authors assembled what they call the first continuous series of white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios from 1860 to 2020, filling about a hundred years of missing national data. Anchors Derenoncourt’s KEPT record. Trust tier: primary (NBER working paper quoted; QJE version cited).
Provenance
- Creator
- Ellora Derenoncourt et al.
- Published
- 2022
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- External record
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w30101
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