contributor Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Community Development Department 22918 Federal Reserve Community Development Publications 145 <p>The Demographics of Wealth is a series of essays written by the staff of the Center for Household Financial Stability (2013 - 2021). The essays are based on the staff’s analysis of over a quarter-century’s worth of data collected by the Federal Reserve through its Survey of Consumer Finances. The results of the survey provide the most comprehensive picture of American families’ balance sheets and financial behavior over time. <br><br> The series confirms the conventional wisdom that more education is associated with more income and wealth. But the essays also show that inherited demographic characteristics—your race or ethnicity, your age and birth year, and even your parents’ level of education—profoundly shape the economic and financial opportunities you have and the outcomes you achieve.</p> multipart 2015-02-01 2018-09-01 9376 2025-05-06 13:05:44 2025-04-29 11:01:01 title 9231 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/demographics-wealth-9376 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/images/record-thumbnail.jpg https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/api/title/9376