Does your home make you wealthy?

RSF

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 110-128

  Killewald, Alexandra ^a   Bryan, Brielle ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeownership; Inequality; Race; Wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026741533     PISSN: 23778253     EISSN: 23778261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2016.2.6.06     Document Type: Article

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