Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1962 to 2013: What Happened over the Great Recession?

Edward N. Wolff

doi:10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.02

Article Information

vol. 2 no. 6 24-43

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online October 1, 2016.

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Edward N. Wolff^a

^aProfessor of economics at New York University, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and editorial board member of the Journal of Economic Inequality and the Review of Income and Wealth