The challenge of ethnic wealth inequalities:
Building understanding
In partnership with the Equality Trust
Project description
This Fellowship will draw on longitudinal panel and cohort data and will apply advanced statistical methods to provide the most complete investigation to-date of the evolution and the mechanisms that generate ethnic wealth inequality over time and across the life-course. In collaboration with the Equality Trust, the evidence-base from the analytical phase of the project will be used to co-produce policy recommendations and high impact dissemination and engagement activities aimed at helping disadvantaged ethnic minority groups build their assets. CASE and The Equality Trust partners have discussed and agreed together the aims and objectives of the project, with a view to getting a good match between the analysis and the Equality Trust's need to plug evidence gaps.
The specific objectives of the fellowship are:
- To provide evidence on how wealth inequality between and within ethnic groups has changed over time and to untangle the relative role of the labour supply, income, household composition and wealth portfolio structure and other factors in driving the change in ethnic wealth disparities;
- To produce evidence on how wealth inequality and housing wealth inequality in particular unfolds over the life-course and how this differs for different birth cohorts of each ethnic group and by cohort of arrival in the UK; to determine the relative role of intra- and intergenerational processes in explaining ethnic wealth disparities as they evolve with age;
- To work with The Equality Trust to engage with those with lived experience of inequalities in wealth based on ethnicity to exchange evidence and expertise and to develop high impact dissemination and engagement.
Duration: March 2024 to March 2025
Funder British Academy Innovation Fellowship (Research Led).
Principal Investigator

CASE Assistant Professorial Research Fellow