Ngina Chiteji

Family Matters: Kin Networks and Asset Accumulation

2005-07-21 · 18 citations

Abstract Social science research has long recognized that the characteristics of an individual’s family and the relationships among family members can have important implications for an individual’s economic outcomes. For example, research has noted that the number of siblings a child has can influence the child’s life chances by affecting the amount of resources that parents are able to devote to the child during critical phases of his or her childhood. More siblings can mean poorer outcomes du…

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States

2006-01-01 · 8 citations

Wealth and Retirement: Pondering the Fate of Formerly Incarcerated Men During the Golden Years

The Review of Black Political Economy · 2020 · 7 citations

This article extends the existing literature about the consequences that having a prison record has on formerly incarcerated men’s labor market outcomes by projecting forward to think about what the diminished labor market prospects may mean for men when they reach retirement age. We find that formerly incarcerated men have little wealth accumulated by their late 40s and 50s, that they have limited access to on-the-job pensions, and that some may not even be able to rely on Social Security when…

The Connection Between Segregation, Predatory Lending, and Black Wealth

Columbia University Press eBooks · 2018-12-22 · 2 citations

Teaching Economics: Viewing Africa in a New Light

The Review of Black Political Economy · 2025-04-29

In his 1991 Presidential Address, then president of the National Economic Association (NEA) Thomas Boston gave a speech that discussed the widespread commercial activity in the Indian Ocean region during premodern times. However, most economists are unaware of the history of this region. This paper argues that the Swahili Coast, which was part of the premodern Indian Ocean trading network, can be used as a case study to spur discussion of several important economic concepts and as an opportunity…