PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fabian T. Pfeffer
AU  - Nora Waitkus
TI  - Comparing Child Wealth Inequality Across Countries
AID  - 10.7758/RSF.2021.7.3.02
DP  - 2021 Aug 01
TA  - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PG  - 28--49
VI  - 7
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/7/3/28.short
4100  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/7/3/28.full
AB  - This article compares the wealth situation of children across fourteen countries. Children experience lower levels of wealth than the rest of the population, seniors in particular. We show that, in most countries, child wealth is distributed substantially more unequally than the wealth of seniors. We also demonstrate that an international ranking of child wealth inequality diverges sharply from one based on child income inequality. The wealth situation of children in the United States is exceptional: they lag further behind seniors in terms of their wealth and face the highest levels of wealth inequality and, by far, wealth concentration.