Equipo

El World Inequality Lab (WIL) está compuesto por unas cuarenta personas (codirectores, coordinadores, becarios de investigación, asistentes de investigación, personal). Tiene su sede principal en la Paris School of Economics y en la Universidad de Berkeley, California. El WIL trabaja en estrecha coordinación con más de 200 investigadores - los WID Fellows - radicados en instituciones de todo el mundo. Todas las instituciones e investigadores interesados son bienvenidos a unirse a nuestra comunidad.

CO-DIRECTORS AND COORDINATORS

Facundo Alvaredo
Paris School of Economics, Oxford University and Conicet
Co-director
Facundo Alvaredo
Paris School of Economics, Oxford University and Conicet
Co-director
Personal page
“Inequality Bands: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/08
“Income Inequality Series for Dominican Republic”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/01
“The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/07
“The concentration of personal wealth in Italy, 1995-2016”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/14
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
Data files to “Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2015 and 2016, and revision for 2000 to 2014;” WID.world Technical Note 2019/02
“New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2017, and revision for 2015 and 2016” WID.world Technical Note 2019/03
Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?, forthcoming Review of Income and Wealth
New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2014, and revision for 2013 and 2012. WID.world Technical Note 2017/1.
UK estimates of top income shares 2013-2014 and 2014-2015: Note on Methods; WID.world Technical Note 2017/2
Data files to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
“Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
Appendix to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/16
“Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century.”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/2
“Income concentration in British India, 1885-1946”, Journal of Development Economics, 127, pp. 459-469, 2017
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
“France Preliminary Estimates of Top Income Shares 2006-2012: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/5
“New Zealand: Estimates of Top Shares for 2011/2012, and Revision for 2010/2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/3
“Spain: Estimates of Top Income Shares 2011-2012, and Revision for 2001-2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/4
“Update and Extension of South Africa Estimates of Top Shares up to 2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/6
“New Zealand: Estimates of Top Shares for 2010/2011, and Revision for 1999/2000-2009/2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/2
“The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 3-20, 2013
“High incomes and personal taxation in a development economy. Colombia 1993-2010,” CEQ working paper 12, 2013
“Update and Extension of South Africa Estimates of Top Shares up to 2009”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/4
“Japan Estimates of Top Income Shares: Update up to 2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/7
Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005. Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
The Rich in Argentina over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa 1903-2007”, CEPR Discussion Paper 8155, 2010
Top Incomes in Italy 1974-2004, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005”, Explorations in Economic History, 2009
“Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009
Data appendix to “Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
Marie Andreescu
ENS Paris
Eastern Europe & Russia Coordinator
Marie Andreescu
ENS Paris
Eastern Europe & Russia Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/05
“2023 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/07
Luis Bauluz
CUNEF Universidad
Wealth aggregates Coordinator
Luis Bauluz
CUNEF Universidad
Wealth aggregates Coordinator
Personal page
“The Wealth of Generations”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/04
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/10
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
“The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/06
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/13
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/01
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“2020 Wealth Aggregate series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/14
“Global Land Inequality”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/10
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Wealth in Spain, 1900-2014: A Country of Two Lands”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/5
“Revised national income and wealth series: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/23
“Spain: Estimates of Top Income Shares 2011-2012, and Revision for 2001-2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/4
Nitin Kumar Bharti
NYU-Abu Dhabi
South & South-East Asia Coordinator
Nitin Kumar Bharti
NYU-Abu Dhabi
South & South-East Asia Coordinator
Personal page
“Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09
“Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2024/01
“2024 DINA Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/08
“The Making of China and India in 21st Century: Long-Run Human Capital Accumulation from 1900 to 2020”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/24
“2023 DINA for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/08
Tackling inequality in India: is the 2019 election campaign up to the challenge?, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/2
भारत में आर्थिक असमानता पर नियंत्रण: 2019 की चुनावी बहस की एक समीक्षा
“Wealth Inequality, Class and Caste in India, 1961-2012”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/14
Philipp Bothe
Paris School of Economics
Wellbeing and Sustainability Coordinator
Philipp Bothe
Paris School of Economics
Wellbeing and Sustainability Coordinator
Personal page
“Lost in Aggregation: The Local Environmental and Welfare Effects of Large Industrial Shutdowns”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/22
“Climate Change and Wealth Inequality: A Literature Review and Numerical Insights”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/27
“Climate Inequality Report 2023”
Lucas Chancel
Paris School of Economics and Iddri Sciences Po
Co-director
Lucas Chancel
Paris School of Economics and Iddri Sciences Po
Co-director
Personal page
“Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2024/01
“Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09
“Climate Change and Wealth Inequality: A Literature Review and Numerical Insights”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/27
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Climate Inequality Report 2023”
“Historical Inequality Series on WID.world – Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/01
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/11
“The Carbon Footprint of Capital”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/26
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
“Measuring the Carbon Content of Wealth: Evidence from France and Germany”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/12
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/16
Privado: “Aggregate carbon footprints on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/02
“Aggregate Carbon Footprints on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/03
“Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions, 1990-2020”, World Inequality Lab Study, 2021
“Global Carbon Inequality over 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/22
Figure “Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions, 1990-2020”, World Inequality Lab Study
Summary of “Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions, 1990-2020” World Inequality Lab Study
“Simplified Post-Tax Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/17
“Countries with Regional Income Imputations on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/15
“Global Income Inequality 1820-2020: The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality”, WID.world Working Paper 2021/19
“Developing countries in times of COVID: Comparing inequality impacts and policy responses”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2021/01
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
Technical Appendix to “Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Inequality Transparency Index Update”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/12
Data File to “Inequality Transparency Index Update”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/12
“Coronabonds with or without Germany”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/02
“Indian Inequality updates (2015-2019)”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/09
“Update of global income inequality estimates on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/11
“Countries with Regional Imputations on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/13
Tackling inequality in India: is the 2019 election campaign up to the challenge?, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/2
Data Files to “Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Data Files to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/04
Appendix to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“Le modèle social européen a-t-il résisté à la montée des inégalités ? Inégalités et redistribution en Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Hat das europäische Sozialmodell dem Anstieg der Ungleichheit widerstanden? Ungleichheiten und Umverteilung in Europa, 1980–2017. WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How large are African inequalities? Towards Distributional National Accounts in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/13
“Income inequality in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/06
“Ten facts about inequality in advanced economies”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/15
“Measuring progress towards tax justice”, 2019 ICRICT meeting
भारत में आर्थिक असमानता पर नियंत्रण: 2019 की चुनावी बहस की एक समीक्षा
“Extreme Inequality: Evidence From Brazil, India, the Middle-East, and South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/4
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“World Inequality Report 2018 Technical Notes for Figures and Tables”, WID.world Technical Note, 2017/8
“Estimating the regional distribution of income in sub-Saharan Africa”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/6.
“Building a global income distribution brick by brick”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/5
“Global Inequality User Guide”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/9
“Sending statistical series to WID.world”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/4
“Indian Income Inequality, 1922-2015: from British Raj to Billionaire Raj?”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/11
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
“National Accounts Series Methodology”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/1
“Carbon and inequality: From Kyoto to Paris”, WID.world Working Paper 2015/7
Dima El Hariri
Middle East & North Africa Coordinator
Dima El Hariri
Middle East & North Africa Coordinator
Personal page
“2022 DINA Regional Update for the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/05
Alice Fauvel
Communications Manager
Alice Fauvel
Communications Manager
Personal page
Matthew Fisher-Post
North America & Oceania Coordinator
Matthew Fisher-Post
North America & Oceania Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/06
“2023 DINA Update for for New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/05
“Government Redistribution and Development, Global Estimates of Tax-and-Transfer Progressivity, 1980-2019″, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/17”
“Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/02
“Evolution des inégalités de revenus au Canada et regard sur les provinces, 1982-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/27
“Income Inequality in Canada at the National and Subnational Levels, 1982-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/27
“2023 DINA Update for Canada and Provinces, 1920-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/04
“Globalization and Factor Income Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/05
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Australia, Canada and New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/07
“Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/16
“Simplified Post-Tax Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/17
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
Data File to “Examining the Great Leveling: New Evidence on Midcentury American Inequality”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/01
“Examining the Great Leveling: New Evidence on Midcentury American Inequality”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/01
“Factor Shares in the Long Run”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/03
“What’s New About Inequality in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States” World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/07
“Simplified DINA for Australia, Canada and New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/10
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Australia, Canada and New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/19
Ignacio Flores
‎Paris School of Economics, Roma III
South America Coordinator
Ignacio Flores
‎Paris School of Economics, Roma III
South America Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/10
“2023 DINA Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/06
“Income Inequality Series for Dominican Republic”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/01
“The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/07
“More Unequal or Not as Rich? Revisiting the Latin American Exception”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/13
“Income Inequality Series for Latin America and the Caribbean”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/07
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/07
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Income Inequality Series for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/02
“Inequality in Latin America Revisited: Insights from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/09
“Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
Appendix to “Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
“The Weight of the Rich: Improving Surveys Using Tax Data”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/12
Amory Gethin
Paris School of Economics
Redistribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
Amory Gethin
Paris School of Economics
Redistribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
Personal page
“A New Database of General Government Revenue and Expenditure by Function, 1980-2022”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/01
“Government Redistribution and Development, Global Estimates of Tax-and-Transfer Progressivity, 1980-2019″, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/17”
“Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/02
“Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2022”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/25
“Revisiting Global Poverty Reduction: Public Goods and the World Distribution of Income, 1980-2022”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/24
“Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/12
Privado: “Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/01
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Can Redistribution Keep Up with Inequality? Evidence from South Africa, 1993-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/20
“Wealth Inequality in South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2021/16
“A Wealth Tax for South Africa”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/02
“Inequality, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1996-2016”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/06
Appendix to “Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
“Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
“Political Cleavages and the Representation of Social Inequalities in Japan 1953-2017”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/10
“Political Cleavages, Class Structures and the Politics of Old and New Minorities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1963-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/05
“Democratization and the Construction of Class Cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/09
“Building the World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: A New Dataset on Electoral Behaviors in 50 Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/15
“Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/07
Appendix to “Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/07
“Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/18
Technical Appendix to “Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Estimating the Distribution of Household Wealth in South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/06
“Extreme Inequality and the Structure of Political Cleavages in South Africa, 1994-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/13
“Social Inequality and the Dynamics of Political and Ethnolinguistic Divides in Pakistan, 1970-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/16
“Growing Cleavages in India? Evidence from the Changing Structure of Electorates, 1962-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/05
Data Files to “Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Data Files to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/04
Appendix to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“Le modèle social européen a-t-il résisté à la montée des inégalités ? Inégalités et redistribution en Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Hat das europäische Sozialmodell dem Anstieg der Ungleichheit widerstanden? Ungleichheiten und Umverteilung in Europa, 1980–2017. WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How large are African inequalities? Towards Distributional National Accounts in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/13
“Income inequality in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/06
“Desigualdades crecientes y divisiones políticas en España”, Nota temática WID.world 2019/4
“Rising inequalities and political cleavages in Spain”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/4
“Extreme Inequality, Democratisation and Class Struggles in Thailand”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019-1
“Foreign incomes and foreign assets in comparative perspective: highlights from the World Inequality Database”
“Le Brésil divisé: retour sur la politisation croissante des inégalités”, Note Thématique WID.world 2018/3
“Brazil Divided: Hindsights on the Growing Politicization of Inequality”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/3
“World Inequality Report 2018 Technical Notes for Figures and Tables”, WID.world Technical Note, 2017/8
“Building a global income distribution brick by brick”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/5
“Global Inequality User Guide”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/9
“Sending statistical series to WID.world”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/4
Ricardo Gómez Carrera
Paris School of Economics
World Inequality Report Coordinator
Ricardo Gómez Carrera
Paris School of Economics
World Inequality Report Coordinator
Personal page
“Global Inequality Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID Macro Series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/11
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
Auto Draft
Romaine Loubes
Paris School of Economics
East and Southern Africa Coordinator
Romaine Loubes
Paris School of Economics
East and Southern Africa Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Africa”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/07
Clara Martínez Toledano
Imperial College Business School
Wealth Distribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
Clara Martínez Toledano
Imperial College Business School
Wealth Distribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
Personal page
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/10
“Wealth inequality in Indonesia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/12
“Wealth inequality in the Netherlands”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/13
Appendix to “Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
“Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/13
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/01
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Distributional Wealth Accounts in Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/12
Appendix to “Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
“Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
“Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/15
“Building the World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: A New Dataset on Electoral Behaviors in 50 Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/04
“Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/04
“Paraísos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/26
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/02
“Rising inequalities and political cleavages in Spain”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/4
“Desigualdades crecientes y divisiones políticas en España”, Nota temática WID.world 2019/4
“Wealth in Spain, 1900-2014: A Country of Two Lands”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/5
“Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/3
“Housing Bubbles, Offshore Assets and Wealth Inequality in Spain”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/19
Zhexun Mo
Paris School of Economics
East Asia Coordinator
Zhexun Mo
Paris School of Economics
East Asia Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/08
“Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/28
“Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/03
“Non-Meritocrats or Conformist Meritocrats? A Redistribution Experiment in China and France”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/21
“2023 DINA for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/08
“Not My Money to Touch: Experimental Evidence on Redistributive Preferences under Market Transition in China”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/20
“Is East Asia Becoming Plutocratic?”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/05
“2022 DINA Regional Update for East Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/04
Cornelia Mohren
Paris School of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
Environmental Coordinator
Cornelia Mohren
Paris School of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
Environmental Coordinator
Personal page
“Climate Change and Wealth Inequality: A Literature Review and Numerical Insights”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/27
Rowaida Moshrif
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Co-director and Head of Data
Rowaida Moshrif
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Co-director and Head of Data
Personal page
“Global Inequality Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID Macro Series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/11
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Historical Inequality Series on WID.world – Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/01
“Income Inequality in the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/06
“2022 DINA Regional Update for the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/05
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/16
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/04
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/06
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/10
“Update of global income inequality estimates on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/11
“2020 DINA Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/08
“Income Inequality in the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/06
“Income Inequality in the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/06
Auto Draft
Theresa Neef
DIW Berlin
Gender Inequality Coordinator
Theresa Neef
DIW Berlin
Gender Inequality Coordinator
Personal page
“The Long Way to Gender Equality: Gender Pay Differences in Germany, 1871-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/02
“Inequality trends in Europe”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/04
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Russia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/03
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/02
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/10
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/08
“Half the sky? The Female Labor Income Share in a Global Perspective”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/22
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Georgia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/09
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“2020 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/04
“What’s New About Income Inequality in Europe? (1980-2019)” World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/04
“2020 DINA Update for the Russian Federation”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/05
“Income Inequality in Russia compared to Eastern Europe (1980-2019)”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/05
“2021 DINA Regional Update for the Russian Federation”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/18
Gastón Nievas Offidani
Paris School of Economics
National Accounts Coordinator
Gastón Nievas Offidani
Paris School of Economics
National Accounts Coordinator
Personal page
“Global Inequality Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID Macro Series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/11
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Allocating missing foreign wealth and missing foreign income: sources and methods used in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/03
“Has the US exorbitant privilege become a rich world privilege? Rates of return and foreign assets from a global perspective, 1970-2022”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/14
Auto Draft
Thomas Piketty
Paris School of Economics and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Co-director
Thomas Piketty
Paris School of Economics and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Co-director
Personal page
“Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2024/01
“Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09
“Le début de la fin de la tripartition ? Élections européennes et inégalités sociales en France, 1994-2024”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/18
“Global Inequality Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID Macro Series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/11
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Allocating missing foreign wealth and missing foreign income: sources and methods used in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/03
“Income Inequality in the United States: A Comment”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/04
“Historical Inequality Series on WID.world – Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/01
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/11
“Comment on Auten and Splinter (2023)”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/09
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
“Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/18
“Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/10
“Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/12
Privado: “Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/16
“Simplified Post-Tax Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/17
“Global Income Inequality 1820-2020: The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality”, WID.world Working Paper 2021/19
“Countries with Regional Income Imputations on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/15
“Building the World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: A New Dataset on Electoral Behaviors in 50 Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/15
“Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Appendix to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Data file 1 to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Data file 2 to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
Data files to “Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
“Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/18
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Predistribution vs. Redistribution: Evidence from France and the U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 1 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 2 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
“Countries with Regional Imputations on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/13
Appendix to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
“Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
“Social Inequality and the Dynamics of Political and Ethnolinguistic Divides in Pakistan, 1970-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/16
“Electoral cleavages and socioeconomic inequality in Germany 1949-2017”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/15
“Political conflict, social inequality and electoral cleavages in Central-Eastern Europe, 1990-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/25
“Growing Cleavages in India? Evidence from the Changing Structure of Electorates, 1962-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/05
Data files to “Simplified distributional national accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“Simplified Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?, forthcoming Review of Income and Wealth
“Inequality and Redistribution in France, 1990-2018: Evidence from Post-Tax Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/10
“Trois décennies d’inégalités et de redistribution en France (1990-2018)”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/2
Data files to “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality & the Changing Structure of Political Conflict”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/7
“The End of the Rentiers: Paris 1842-1957”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/1
Data files to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
Appendix to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/16
“Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“Generalized Pareto Curves : Theory and Applications”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/3
“Indian Income Inequality, 1922-2015: from British Raj to Billionaire Raj?”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/11
“Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Data Files to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/04
Appendix to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.World Working Paper, 2017/05
Presentation slides to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Data Files to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”
Appendix to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/10
“From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper N°2017/09
Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/06
Main Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Presentation Slides to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Appendix to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/7
“Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/6
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
Appendix to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/6
“Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Data Files to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France, 1800-2014”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Presentation Slides to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France, 1800-2014”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Presentation slides to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/7
Appendix to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/4
“France Preliminary Estimates of Top Income Shares 2006-2012: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/5
“Carbon and inequality: From Kyoto to Paris”, WID.world Working Paper 2015/7
“Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Data Appendix to “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010” ,Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Privado: Piketty, Thomas and Zucman, Gabriel “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010”, Paris School of Economics, 2013
“The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 3-20, 2013
“Japan Estimates of Top Income Shares: Update up to 2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/7
Top Indian Incomes 1922-2000, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Income, Wage and Wealth Inequality in France 1901-1998, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Income and Wage Inequality in the United States 1913-2002, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
“Income inequality in France, 1901-1998”, Journal of Political Economy, 2003
“Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003
“Income Inequality in France 1901-98”, CEPR Discussion Papers, 2001
Auto Draft
Anne-Sophie Robilliard
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD - France)
West and Central Africa Coordinator
Anne-Sophie Robilliard
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD - France)
West and Central Africa Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Africa”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/07
“What’s new about income inequality in Africa?”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/09
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Africa”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/06
“Half the sky? The Female Labor Income Share in a Global Perspective”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/22
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Africa”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/05
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“2020 DINA Update for Countries of the Africa region”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/03
“What’s New About Income Inequality in Africa?”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/03
Emmanuel Saez
University of California at Berkeley
Scientific Co-director
Emmanuel Saez
University of California at Berkeley
Scientific Co-director
Personal page
“Income Inequality in the United States: A Comment”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/04
“Comment on Auten and Splinter (2023)”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/09
“Real-Time Inequality”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/14
“Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/18
“Top Wealth in America: A Reexamination”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/17
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Trends in US Income and Wealth Inequality: Revising After the Revisionists”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/21
“The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/20
Data files to “Simplified distributional national accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“Simplified Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
Presentation slides to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/7
Appendix to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/4
“Frank-Sommeiller-Price Series for Top Income Shares by US States since 1917”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/7
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2013 preliminary estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/1
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2014 preliminary estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/6
“The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 3-20, 2013
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2011 preliminary estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/1
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2012 preliminary estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/3
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2009 and 2010 estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/2
Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan 1886-2005, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009
Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Income and Wage Inequality in the United States 1913-2002, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada 1920-2000, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
“Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003
Alice Sodano
Western Europe Coordinator
Alice Sodano
Western Europe Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/05
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Has the US exorbitant privilege become a rich world privilege? Rates of return and foreign assets from a global perspective, 1970-2022”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/14
“2023 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/07
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/10
“Wealth inequality in Indonesia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/12
“Wealth inequality in the Netherlands”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/13
“Inequality trends in Europe”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/04
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/02
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/13
“Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/04
“Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/04
Anmol Somanchi
Paris School of Economics
Global Justice Coordinator
Anmol Somanchi
Paris School of Economics
Global Justice Coordinator
Personal page
“Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09
“Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2024/01
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
Auto Draft
Maria José Zorrilla
General Manager
Maria José Zorrilla
General Manager
Personal page
Gabriel Zucman
University of California at Berkeley
Scientific Co-director
Gabriel Zucman
University of California at Berkeley
Scientific Co-director
Personal page
“Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/17
“Income Inequality in the United States: A Comment”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/04
“Comment on Auten and Splinter (2023)”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/09
“Globalization and Factor Income Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/05
“Real-Time Inequality”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/14
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
“Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/18
“Top Wealth in America: A Reexamination”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/17
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Trends in US Income and Wealth Inequality: Revising After the Revisionists”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/21
“The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/20
“The Missing Profits of Nations”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/12
“U.S. Distributional National Accounts: Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/07
Data files to “Simplified distributional national accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“Simplified Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
Data files to “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
World Inequality Report 2018
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
“From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper N°2017/09
Data Files to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”
Appendix to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/10
Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/06
Main Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Presentation Slides to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Appendix to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/7
“Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/6
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
Presentation slides to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/7
Appendix to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/4
“Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Data Appendix to “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010” ,Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Privado: Piketty, Thomas and Zucman, Gabriel “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010”, Paris School of Economics, 2013
Álvaro Zuñiga-Cordero
Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Central America and the Caribbean Coordinator
Álvaro Zuñiga-Cordero
Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Central America and the Caribbean Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/10
“2023 DINA Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/06
“Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
Appendix to “Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11

WID Fellows

Rolf Aaberge
Statistics Norway
Rolf Aaberge
Statistics Norway
Personal page
“The ins and outs of top income mobility”, Statistics Norway Research Department Discussion Papers n. 762, October 2013
Top Incomes in Norway, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Muhammed Abdul Khalid
IKMAS, National University of Malaysia
Muhammed Abdul Khalid
IKMAS, National University of Malaysia
Personal page
“Income Inequality and Ethnic Cleavages in Malaysia: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (1984-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/09
Aboobaker Aboobaker
Adam Aboobaker
University of Manchester
Aboobaker
Adam Aboobaker
University of Manchester
Personal page
“Macroeconomic Determinants of South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Income Distribution”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/08
Paolo Acciari
Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy)
Paolo Acciari
Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy)
Personal page
“The concentration of personal wealth in Italy, 1995-2016”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/14
Arun Advani
University of Warwick
Arun Advani
University of Warwick
“UK Estimates of Top Fiscal Income Shares: Note on revised methods”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/14
Sumit Agarwal
National University of Singapore
Sumit Agarwal
National University of Singapore
Personal page
“Like Father Like Son? Social Engineering and Intergenerational Mobility in Housing Consumption”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/16
Raavi Aggarwal
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Raavi Aggarwal
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Research fellow
Personal page
Anique Ahmed
Anique Ahmed
Personal page
“Global Inequality of Hourly Income, 1980-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/3
Thilo Albers
Humboldt University
Thilo Albers
Humboldt University
Personal page
“Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/09
Guido Alfani
Bocconi University, Milan
Guido Alfani
Bocconi University, Milan
Personal page
“Long-Term Trends in Income And Wealth Inequality In Southern Italy.The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/21
“Inequality in History: a Long-run View”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/05
Facundo Alvaredo
Paris School of Economics, Oxford University and Conicet
Facundo Alvaredo
Paris School of Economics, Oxford University and Conicet
Co-director
Personal page
“Inequality Bands: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/08
“Income Inequality Series for Dominican Republic”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/01
“The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/07
“The concentration of personal wealth in Italy, 1995-2016”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/14
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
Data files to “Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2015 and 2016, and revision for 2000 to 2014;” WID.world Technical Note 2019/02
“New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2017, and revision for 2015 and 2016” WID.world Technical Note 2019/03
Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?, forthcoming Review of Income and Wealth
New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2014, and revision for 2013 and 2012. WID.world Technical Note 2017/1.
UK estimates of top income shares 2013-2014 and 2014-2015: Note on Methods; WID.world Technical Note 2017/2
Data files to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
“Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
Appendix to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/16
“Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century.”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/2
“Income concentration in British India, 1885-1946”, Journal of Development Economics, 127, pp. 459-469, 2017
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
“France Preliminary Estimates of Top Income Shares 2006-2012: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/5
“New Zealand: Estimates of Top Shares for 2011/2012, and Revision for 2010/2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/3
“Spain: Estimates of Top Income Shares 2011-2012, and Revision for 2001-2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/4
“Update and Extension of South Africa Estimates of Top Shares up to 2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/6
“New Zealand: Estimates of Top Shares for 2010/2011, and Revision for 1999/2000-2009/2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/2
“The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 3-20, 2013
“High incomes and personal taxation in a development economy. Colombia 1993-2010,” CEQ working paper 12, 2013
“Update and Extension of South Africa Estimates of Top Shares up to 2009”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/4
“Japan Estimates of Top Income Shares: Update up to 2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/7
Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005. Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
The Rich in Argentina over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa 1903-2007”, CEPR Discussion Paper 8155, 2010
Top Incomes in Italy 1974-2004, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005”, Explorations in Economic History, 2009
“Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009
Data appendix to “Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
Verónica Amarante
Instituto de Economía, Universidad de la República
Verónica Amarante
Instituto de Economía, Universidad de la República
Personal page
Marie Andreescu
ENS Paris
Marie Andreescu
ENS Paris
Eastern Europe & Russia Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/05
“2023 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/07
Manuel Esteban Arias Osorio
Paris School of Economics
Manuel Esteban Arias Osorio
Paris School of Economics
Economist
Personal page
Miguel Artola Blanco
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Miguel Artola Blanco
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Personal page
“Top Earners and the Great Compression: New Estimates Based on Tax Records”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/11
“Wealth in Spain, 1900-2014: A Country of Two Lands”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/5
Lydia Assouad
Paris School of Economics
Lydia Assouad
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
“Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/12
Privado: “Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?, forthcoming Review of Income and Wealth
“Extreme Inequality: Evidence From Brazil, India, the Middle-East, and South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/4
“Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
Appendix to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/16
Data files to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
“Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: The extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon 2005-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/13
Data files to “Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: The extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon 2005-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/13
Jorge Atria
Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jorge Atria
Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile
Personal page
“Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
Appendix to “Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
Leo Azzollini
University of Oxford Member of the ERC DINA
Leo Azzollini
University of Oxford Member of the ERC DINA
pierre-bachas pierre-bachas
Pierre Bachas
World Bank Research Group
pierre-bachas
Pierre Bachas
World Bank Research Group
Economist
Personal page
“Globalization and Factor Income Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/05
Abhijit Banerjee
MIT
Abhijit Banerjee
MIT
Personal page
“Growing Cleavages in India? Evidence from the Changing Structure of Electorates, 1962-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/05
Top Indian Incomes 1922-2000, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Oscar Barrera
Oscar Barrera
Research fellow
Personal page
“Capital vs. Labour: the Effect of Income Sources on Attitudes Toward the Top 1 Percent”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/19
“Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
Appendix to “Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
Charlotte Bartels
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
Charlotte Bartels
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
Personal page
“Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/09
“Top incomes in Germany, 1871-2013,” WID.world Working Paper 2017/18
“The Role of Capital Income for Top Incomes Shares in Germany”, WID.world Working Paper, 2015/1
Enea Baselgia Enea Baselgia
Enea Baselgia
University of St Gallen
Enea Baselgia
Enea Baselgia
University of St Gallen
Research fellow
Personal page
Luis Bauluz
CUNEF Universidad
Luis Bauluz
CUNEF Universidad
Wealth aggregates Coordinator
Personal page
“The Wealth of Generations”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/04
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/10
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
“The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/06
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/13
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/01
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“2020 Wealth Aggregate series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/14
“Global Land Inequality”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/10
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Wealth in Spain, 1900-2014: A Country of Two Lands”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/5
“Revised national income and wealth series: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/23
“Spain: Estimates of Top Income Shares 2011-2012, and Revision for 2001-2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/4
Michele Bavaro
University of Oxford Member of ERC DINA
Michele Bavaro
University of Oxford Member of ERC DINA
Khaled Bendary
Paris School of Economics
Khaled Bendary
Paris School of Economics
Economist
Personal page
Augustin Bergeron
Harvard University
Augustin Bergeron
Harvard University
Personal page
Yonatan Berman
King's College London
Yonatan Berman
King's College London
“Inequality, Identity, and the Long-Run Evolution of Political Cleavages in Israel 1949-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/17
“Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the United States, 1950-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/27
Thomas Bézy
Paris School of Economics
Thomas Bézy
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
Nitin Kumar Bharti
NYU-Abu Dhabi
Nitin Kumar Bharti
NYU-Abu Dhabi
South & South-East Asia Coordinator
Personal page
“Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09
“Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2024/01
“2024 DINA Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/08
“The Making of China and India in 21st Century: Long-Run Human Capital Accumulation from 1900 to 2020”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/24
“2023 DINA for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/08
Tackling inequality in India: is the 2019 election campaign up to the challenge?, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/2
भारत में आर्थिक असमानता पर नियंत्रण: 2019 की चुनावी बहस की एक समीक्षा
“Wealth Inequality, Class and Caste in India, 1961-2012”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/14
Thomas Blanchet
Paris School of Economics
Thomas Blanchet
Paris School of Economics
National accounts and statistical methods coordinator
Personal page
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/10
“Uncovering the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/02
“Real-Time Inequality”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/14
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/13
“Distributional Wealth Accounts in Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/12
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
Technical Appendix to “Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Le modèle social européen a-t-il résisté à la montée des inégalités ? Inégalités et redistribution en Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Hat das europäische Sozialmodell dem Anstieg der Ungleichheit widerstanden? Ungleichheiten und Umverteilung in Europa, 1980–2017. WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Appendix to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
Data Files to “Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Data Files to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/04
“Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“The Weight of the Rich: Improving Surveys Using Tax Data”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/12
“Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/3
“Estimates of the Global Distribution of Wealth”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/7
“Prices and Currency conversions in WID.world”. WID.world Technical Note 2017/3.
“Generalized Pareto Curves : Theory and Applications”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/3
“National Accounts Series Methodology”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/1
Cecile Bonneau Cecile Bonneau
Cécile Bonneau
Paris School of Economics (PSE), École Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm)
Cecile Bonneau
Cécile Bonneau
Paris School of Economics (PSE), École Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm)
Personal page
“Unequal Access to Higher Education Based On Parental Income: Evidence from France”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/01
Florian Bonnet
Paris School of Economics
Florian Bonnet
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Kane Borders
Paris School of Economics
Kane Borders
Paris School of Economics
Economist
Personal page
Philipp Bothe
Paris School of Economics
Philipp Bothe
Paris School of Economics
Wellbeing and Sustainability Coordinator
Personal page
“Lost in Aggregation: The Local Environmental and Welfare Effects of Large Industrial Shutdowns”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/22
“Climate Change and Wealth Inequality: A Literature Review and Numerical Insights”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/27
“Climate Inequality Report 2023”
François Bourguignon
Paris School of Economics
François Bourguignon
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
“Inequality Bands: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/08
“Evolution des inégalités de revenus au Canada et regard sur les provinces, 1982-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/27
Antoine Bozio
Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP) and Paris School of Economics
Antoine Bozio
Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP) and Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
“Predistribution vs. Redistribution: Evidence from France and the U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 1 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 2 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
“Inequality and Redistribution in France, 1990-2018: Evidence from Post-Tax Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/10
“Trois décennies d’inégalités et de redistribution en France (1990-2018)”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/2
Andrea Brandolini
DG Economics, Statistics and Research Banca d'Italia STATISTICS AND RESEARCH BANCA D’ITALIA
Andrea Brandolini
DG Economics, Statistics and Research Banca d'Italia STATISTICS AND RESEARCH BANCA D’ITALIA
Personal page
Pierre Brassac
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Pierre Brassac
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Economist
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/10
“2020 Wealth Aggregate series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/14
Portrait Sébastien Breau Portrait Sébastien Breau
Sébastien Breau
McGill University
Portrait Sébastien Breau
Sébastien Breau
McGill University
Associate Professor
Personal page
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
Marius Brülhart
University of Lausanne
Marius Brülhart
University of Lausanne
Personal page
Pawel Bukowski
London School of Economics
Pawel Bukowski
London School of Economics
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
“Income inequality in the 21st century Poland”, World Inequality Lab 2023/31
“Between Communism and Capitalism: Long-Term Inequality in Poland, 1892-2015”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/08
“Top Incomes during Wars, Communism and Capitalism: Poland 1892-2015,” WID.world Working Paper 2017/22
“Inequality in Poland: Estimating the whole distribution by g-percentile, 1983-2015,” WID.world Working Paper 2017/21
Gabriel Burdín
Universidad de la República
Gabriel Burdín
Universidad de la República
Personal page
“Uruguay Estimates of Top Income Shares 2009-2012”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/2
“Uruguay estimates of top income shares 2009-2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/2
“Desigualdad y altos ingresos en Uruguay. Un análisis en base a registros tributarios y encuestas de hogares para el periodo 2009-2011”, Informe Final Convenio CEF-FCEA (in Spanish), 2014
“Inequality and Top Income in Uruguay: A Comparison between Household Surveys and Income Tax Micro-data”, WID.world Working Paper, 2014/1
Richard Burkhauser
Richard Burkhauser
Personal page
“Measuring top incomes using tax record data: a cautionary tale from Australia”, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015
“Measuring top incomes using tax record data: a cautionary tale from Australia”, NBER wp 19121, 2013
Francois Burq Francois Burq
François Burq
Francois Burq
François Burq
Privado: “Aggregate carbon footprints on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/02
“Aggregate Carbon Footprints on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/03
“Inequality Transparency Index Update”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/12
Data File to “Inequality Transparency Index Update”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/12
Julia Cagé
Department of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
Julia Cagé
Department of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
Personal page
“Le début de la fin de la tripartition ? Élections européennes et inégalités sociales en France, 1994-2024”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/18
“Political Inequality”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/22
“Is charitable giving political? Evidence from wealth and income tax returns”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/07
“The far-right donation gap”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/15
Raymundo Campos
El Colegio de México
Raymundo Campos
El Colegio de México
Personal page
Rafael Carranza Navarrete
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Rafael Carranza Navarrete
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Personal page
“Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/17
Guilhem Cassan
University of Namur
Guilhem Cassan
University of Namur
Personal page
Lucas Chancel
Paris School of Economics and Iddri Sciences Po
Lucas Chancel
Paris School of Economics and Iddri Sciences Po
Co-director
Personal page
“Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2024/01
“Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09
“Climate Change and Wealth Inequality: A Literature Review and Numerical Insights”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/27
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Climate Inequality Report 2023”
“Historical Inequality Series on WID.world – Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/01
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/11
“The Carbon Footprint of Capital”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/26
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
“Measuring the Carbon Content of Wealth: Evidence from France and Germany”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/12
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/16
Privado: “Aggregate carbon footprints on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/02
“Aggregate Carbon Footprints on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/03
“Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions, 1990-2020”, World Inequality Lab Study, 2021
“Global Carbon Inequality over 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/22
Figure “Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions, 1990-2020”, World Inequality Lab Study
Summary of “Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions, 1990-2020” World Inequality Lab Study
“Simplified Post-Tax Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/17
“Countries with Regional Income Imputations on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/15
“Global Income Inequality 1820-2020: The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality”, WID.world Working Paper 2021/19
“Developing countries in times of COVID: Comparing inequality impacts and policy responses”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2021/01
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
Technical Appendix to “Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Inequality Transparency Index Update”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/12
Data File to “Inequality Transparency Index Update”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/12
“Coronabonds with or without Germany”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/02
“Indian Inequality updates (2015-2019)”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/09
“Update of global income inequality estimates on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/11
“Countries with Regional Imputations on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/13
Tackling inequality in India: is the 2019 election campaign up to the challenge?, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/2
Data Files to “Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Data Files to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/04
Appendix to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“Le modèle social européen a-t-il résisté à la montée des inégalités ? Inégalités et redistribution en Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Hat das europäische Sozialmodell dem Anstieg der Ungleichheit widerstanden? Ungleichheiten und Umverteilung in Europa, 1980–2017. WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How large are African inequalities? Towards Distributional National Accounts in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/13
“Income inequality in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/06
“Ten facts about inequality in advanced economies”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/15
“Measuring progress towards tax justice”, 2019 ICRICT meeting
भारत में आर्थिक असमानता पर नियंत्रण: 2019 की चुनावी बहस की एक समीक्षा
“Extreme Inequality: Evidence From Brazil, India, the Middle-East, and South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/4
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“World Inequality Report 2018 Technical Notes for Figures and Tables”, WID.world Technical Note, 2017/8
“Estimating the regional distribution of income in sub-Saharan Africa”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/6.
“Building a global income distribution brick by brick”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/5
“Global Inequality User Guide”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/9
“Sending statistical series to WID.world”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/4
“Indian Income Inequality, 1922-2015: from British Raj to Billionaire Raj?”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/11
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
“National Accounts Series Methodology”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/1
“Carbon and inequality: From Kyoto to Paris”, WID.world Working Paper 2015/7
Nikolaos Charalampidis
Nikolaos Charalampidis
Personal page
“The National Wealth-Income Ratio in Greece, 1974-2013”, Review of Income and Wealth, 2016
Aroop Chatterjee Aroop Chatterjee
Aroop Chatterjee
Southern Centre for Inequality Studies - University of the Witwatersrand
Aroop Chatterjee
Aroop Chatterjee
Southern Centre for Inequality Studies - University of the Witwatersrand
Research Manager - Wealth Inequality
Personal page
“A Wealth Tax for South Africa”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/02
“Wealth Inequality in South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2021/16
“Can Redistribution Keep Up with Inequality? Evidence from South Africa, 1993-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/20
“Estimating the Distribution of Household Wealth in South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/06
Teyu Chou
Teyu Chou
“Top Incomes in Taiwan, 1977-2013”, WID.world Working Paper, 2015/6
Cyrus Chu
Academia Sinica
Cyrus Chu
Academia Sinica
Personal page
“Distributional National Accounts for Taiwan, 1981-2017”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/15
“Top Incomes in Taiwan, 1977-2013”, WID.world Working Paper, 2015/6
Denis Cogneau
Paris School of Economics
Denis Cogneau
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
“Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/28
“Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
Data files to “Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
“How large are African inequalities? Towards Distributional National Accounts in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/13
“Income inequality in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/06
Frank Cowell
London School of Economics and Political Science
Frank Cowell
London School of Economics and Political Science
Personal page
Guillermo Cruces
CEDLAS
Guillermo Cruces
CEDLAS
Léo Czajka
UCLouvain
Léo Czajka
UCLouvain
Personal page
“A Wealth Tax for South Africa”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/02
“Wealth Inequality in South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2021/16
“Can Redistribution Keep Up with Inequality? Evidence from South Africa, 1993-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/20
“Estimating the Distribution of Household Wealth in South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/06
“Estimating the regional distribution of income in sub-Saharan Africa”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/6.
“Income Inequality in Côte d’Ivoire: 1985-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/08
Data File to “Income Inequality in Côte d’Ivoire: 1985-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/08
Conchita D'Ambrosio
University of Luxembourg
Conchita D'Ambrosio
University of Luxembourg
Personal page
Mauricio De Rosa
Universidad de la República
Mauricio De Rosa
Universidad de la República
Research fellow
Personal page
“Income Inequality Series for Dominican Republic”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/01
“The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/07
“More Unequal or Not as Rich? Revisiting the Latin American Exception”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/13
“Income Inequality Series for Latin America and the Caribbean”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/07
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/07
“Income Inequality Series for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/02
“Inequality in Latin America Revisited: Insights from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/09
“Uruguay Estimates of Top Income Shares 2009-2012”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/2
“Uruguay estimates of top income shares 2009-2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/2
Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich
Paris School of Economics; Groningen University
Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich
Paris School of Economics; Groningen University
“Household Wealth and its distribution in the Netherlands, 1854-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/19
Andre Decoster
University of Leuven
Andre Decoster
University of Leuven
Personal page
“Using Fiscal Data to Estimate the Evolution of Top Income Shares in Belgium from 1990 to 2013”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/04
Fabien Dell
European Commission
Fabien Dell
European Commission
“Update and Extension of Germany Series”, WID.world Technical Note, 2011/1
Top Incomes in Germany Throughout the Twentieth Century 1891-1998, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
François Delorme
Université de Sherbrooke
François Delorme
Université de Sherbrooke
“2023 DINA Update for Canada and Provinces, 1920-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/04
“Income Inequality in Canada at the National and Subnational Levels, 1982-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/27
Jonas Dietrich
Paris School of Economics
Jonas Dietrich
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Franziska Disslbacher
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Franziska Disslbacher
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Personal page
“Leaving Legacies and Liabilities: The Distribution of Wealth at Death”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/20
Thomas Douenne
University of Amsterdam
Thomas Douenne
University of Amsterdam
Personal page
“Do People Distinguish Income from Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the Netherlands”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/15
“International attitudes toward global policies for poverty reduction and climates change”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/08
Sacha Dray Sacha Dray
Sacha Dray
World Bank
Sacha Dray
Sacha Dray
World Bank
Personal page
“Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/03
Paula Druschke
London School of Economics
Paula Druschke
London School of Economics
Research Assistant
DurrerDeLaSotaCarmen_WorldInequalityLab DurrerDeLaSotaCarmen_WorldInequalityLab
Carmen Durrer de la Sota
DurrerDeLaSotaCarmen_WorldInequalityLab
Carmen Durrer de la Sota
Research assistant
“Simplified Post-Tax Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/17
“Inequality, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1996-2016”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/06
“Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
Appendix to “Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
Dima El Hariri
Dima El Hariri
Middle East & North Africa Coordinator
Personal page
“2022 DINA Regional Update for the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/05
Fernando Esponda
Fernando Esponda
“Desigualdad y altos ingresos en Uruguay. Un análisis en base a registros tributarios y encuestas de hogares para el periodo 2009-2011”, Informe Final Convenio CEF-FCEA (in Spanish), 2014
“Inequality and Top Income in Uruguay: A Comparison between Household Surveys and Income Tax Micro-data”, WID.world Working Paper, 2014/1
Adrien Fabre
CNRS, CIRED
Adrien Fabre
CNRS, CIRED
Personal page
“International attitudes toward global policies for poverty reduction and climates change”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/08
Yi Fan
National University of Singapore
Yi Fan
National University of Singapore
Personal page
“Like Father Like Son? Social Engineering and Intergenerational Mobility in Housing Consumption”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/16
Matthew Fisher-Post
Matthew Fisher-Post
North America & Oceania Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/06
“2023 DINA Update for for New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/05
“Government Redistribution and Development, Global Estimates of Tax-and-Transfer Progressivity, 1980-2019″, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/17”
“Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/02
“Evolution des inégalités de revenus au Canada et regard sur les provinces, 1982-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/27
“Income Inequality in Canada at the National and Subnational Levels, 1982-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/27
“2023 DINA Update for Canada and Provinces, 1920-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/04
“Globalization and Factor Income Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/05
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Australia, Canada and New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/07
“Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/16
“Simplified Post-Tax Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/17
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
Data File to “Examining the Great Leveling: New Evidence on Midcentury American Inequality”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/01
“Examining the Great Leveling: New Evidence on Midcentury American Inequality”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/01
“Factor Shares in the Long Run”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/03
“What’s New About Inequality in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States” World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/07
“Simplified DINA for Australia, Canada and New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/10
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Australia, Canada and New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/19
Ignacio Flores
‎Paris School of Economics, Roma III
Ignacio Flores
‎Paris School of Economics, Roma III
South America Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/10
“2023 DINA Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/06
“Income Inequality Series for Dominican Republic”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/01
“The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/07
“More Unequal or Not as Rich? Revisiting the Latin American Exception”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/13
“Income Inequality Series for Latin America and the Caribbean”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/07
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/07
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Income Inequality Series for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/02
“Inequality in Latin America Revisited: Insights from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/09
“Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
Appendix to “Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
“The Weight of the Rich: Improving Surveys Using Tax Data”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/12
Reto Foellmi
Universität St. Gallen
Reto Foellmi
Universität St. Gallen
Personal page
“Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2010”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017
Appendix to “Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2010”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017
“Volatile top income shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the evolution between 1981 and 2009”, 2014
“Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2008”, 2013
“Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution between 1981 and 2008”, University of St. Gallen, Department of Economics Discussion Paper 2012-27, 2012
Michael Förster
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Michael Förster
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Personal page
Tayla Forward
Paris School of Economics
Tayla Forward
Paris School of Economics
WID fellow
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for New Zealand”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/06
Juliette Fournier
MIT
Juliette Fournier
MIT
“Generalized Pareto Curves : Theory and Applications”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/3
Mark Frank
Sam Houston State University
Mark Frank
Sam Houston State University
Personal page
“Frank-Sommeiller-Price Series for Top Income Shares by US States since 1917”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/7
Mark Fransham Mark Fransham
Mark Fransham
University of Oxford
Mark Fransham
Mark Fransham
University of Oxford
Personal page
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
Valentina Gabrielli
Paris School of Economics
Valentina Gabrielli
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Personal page
Bertrand Garbinti
Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) - ENSAE - Institut Polytechnique Paris
Bertrand Garbinti
Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) - ENSAE - Institut Polytechnique Paris
Research fellow
Personal page
“Trends and Inequality in Lifetime Earnings in France”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/1
“Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/17
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
Data File 1 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 2 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
“Predistribution vs. Redistribution: Evidence from France and the U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Appendix to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
“Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
“Trois décennies d’inégalités et de redistribution en France (1990-2018)”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/2
“Inequality and Redistribution in France, 1990-2018: Evidence from Post-Tax Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/10
“Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/3
“Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Data Files to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/04
Appendix to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.World Working Paper, 2017/05
Presentation slides to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Data Files to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France, 1800-2014”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Appendix to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/6
“Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Presentation Slides to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France, 1800-2014”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Santiago Garriga
Paris School of Economics
Santiago Garriga
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Leonardo Gasparini
CEDLAS-Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Leonardo Gasparini
CEDLAS-Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Personal page
Amory Gethin
Paris School of Economics
Amory Gethin
Paris School of Economics
Redistribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
Personal page
“A New Database of General Government Revenue and Expenditure by Function, 1980-2022”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/01
“Government Redistribution and Development, Global Estimates of Tax-and-Transfer Progressivity, 1980-2019″, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/17”
“Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/02
“Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2022”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/25
“Revisiting Global Poverty Reduction: Public Goods and the World Distribution of Income, 1980-2022”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/24
“Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/12
Privado: “Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/01
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Can Redistribution Keep Up with Inequality? Evidence from South Africa, 1993-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/20
“Wealth Inequality in South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2021/16
“A Wealth Tax for South Africa”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/02
“Inequality, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1996-2016”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/06
Appendix to “Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
“Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
“Political Cleavages and the Representation of Social Inequalities in Japan 1953-2017”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/10
“Political Cleavages, Class Structures and the Politics of Old and New Minorities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1963-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/05
“Democratization and the Construction of Class Cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/09
“Building the World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: A New Dataset on Electoral Behaviors in 50 Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/15
“Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/07
Appendix to “Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/07
“Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/18
Technical Appendix to “Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Why Is Europe More Equal Than the United States?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/19
“Estimating the Distribution of Household Wealth in South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/06
“Extreme Inequality and the Structure of Political Cleavages in South Africa, 1994-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/13
“Social Inequality and the Dynamics of Political and Ethnolinguistic Divides in Pakistan, 1970-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/16
“Growing Cleavages in India? Evidence from the Changing Structure of Electorates, 1962-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/05
Data Files to “Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“Has the European social model withstood the rise in inequalities? Inequalities and redistribution in Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Data Files to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/04
Appendix to “How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
“Le modèle social européen a-t-il résisté à la montée des inégalités ? Inégalités et redistribution en Europe, 1980-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
Hat das europäische Sozialmodell dem Anstieg der Ungleichheit widerstanden? Ungleichheiten und Umverteilung in Europa, 1980–2017. WID.world Issue Brief 2019/3
“How large are African inequalities? Towards Distributional National Accounts in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/13
“Income inequality in Africa, 1990-2017”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/06
“Desigualdades crecientes y divisiones políticas en España”, Nota temática WID.world 2019/4
“Rising inequalities and political cleavages in Spain”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/4
“Extreme Inequality, Democratisation and Class Struggles in Thailand”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019-1
“Foreign incomes and foreign assets in comparative perspective: highlights from the World Inequality Database”
“Le Brésil divisé: retour sur la politisation croissante des inégalités”, Note Thématique WID.world 2018/3
“Brazil Divided: Hindsights on the Growing Politicization of Inequality”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/3
“World Inequality Report 2018 Technical Notes for Figures and Tables”, WID.world Technical Note, 2017/8
“Building a global income distribution brick by brick”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/5
“Global Inequality User Guide”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/9
“Sending statistical series to WID.world”, WID.world Technical Note 2017/4
Olivier Godechot
Sciences Po, CRIS-CNRS and AxPo
Olivier Godechot
Sciences Po, CRIS-CNRS and AxPo
Personal page
“Financialization more than globalization! The contribution of global cities to Inequalities”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/10
Ricardo Gómez Carrera
Paris School of Economics
Ricardo Gómez Carrera
Paris School of Economics
World Inequality Report Coordinator
Personal page
“Global Inequality Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID Macro Series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/11
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
Auto Draft
Janet Gornick
City University of New York
Janet Gornick
City University of New York
Personal page
Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
Paris School of Economics
Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
“Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/17
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
Data File 2 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 1 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
“Predistribution vs. Redistribution: Evidence from France and the U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Appendix to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
“Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
“Inequality and Redistribution in France, 1990-2018: Evidence from Post-Tax Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/10
“Trois décennies d’inégalités et de redistribution en France (1990-2018)”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/2
“Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/3
“Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Data Files to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/04
Appendix to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.World Working Paper, 2017/05
Presentation slides to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Data Files to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France, 1800-2014”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Appendix to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/6
“Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Presentation Slides to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France, 1800-2014”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Yajna Govind
Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Yajna Govind
Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Research fellow
“To become or not to become French: Conscription, naturalization, and labor market integration”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/29
“Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/18
“Global Land Inequality”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/10
“Post-colonial Trends of Income Inequality: Evidence from the Overseas Departments of France”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/11
Sébastien Grobon
Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne (CES)
Sébastien Grobon
Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne (CES)
Personal page
“Unequal Access to Higher Education Based On Parental Income: Evidence from France”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/01
Malka Guillot
HEC Liège
Malka Guillot
HEC Liège
Personal page
“Is charitable giving political? Evidence from wealth and income tax returns”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/07
“Predistribution vs. Redistribution: Evidence from France and the U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 1 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 2 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
“Inequality and Redistribution in France, 1990-2018: Evidence from Post-Tax Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/10
“Trois décennies d’inégalités et de redistribution en France (1990-2018)”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/2
Demetrio Guzzardi
Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advances Studies of Pisa
Demetrio Guzzardi
Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advances Studies of Pisa
“Tackling the Regressivity of the Italian Tax System: An Optimal Taxation Framework with Heterogeneous Returns to Capital”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/23
“A New Geography of Inequality: Top incomes in Italian Regions and Inner Areas”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/19
“Reconstructing Income Inequality in Italy: New Evidence and Tax Policy Implications from DINA”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/02
“DINA income series for Italy, 2004-2015”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/11
Nicolas Hérault
Université de Bordeaux & University of Melbourne
Nicolas Hérault
Université de Bordeaux & University of Melbourne
Personal page
“Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/16
Martin B. Holm
University of Oslo
Martin B. Holm
University of Oslo
Personal page
“Asset Price Redistribution”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/13
Sehyun Hong
Paris School of Economics
Sehyun Hong
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
“Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/03
“2023 DINA for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/08
“2022 DINA Regional Update for East Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/04
Roberto Iacono
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Roberto Iacono
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Personal page
“Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/30
“A Micro Perspective on R>G”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/03
Markus Jäntti
Stockholms Universitet
Markus Jäntti
Stockholms Universitet
Personal page
Trends in Top Income Shares in Finland, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Katharina Jenderny
Umeå Universitet
Katharina Jenderny
Umeå Universitet
Personal page
“The Role of Capital Income for Top Incomes Shares in Germany”, WID.world Working Paper, 2015/1
Stephen Jenkins
London School of Economics and Political Science
Stephen Jenkins
London School of Economics and Political Science
Personal page
Thanasak Jenmana
Paris School of Economics
Thanasak Jenmana
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
“2023 DINA for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/08
“Democratization and the Construction of Class Cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/09
“2020 DINA Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/08
“Extreme Inequality, Democratisation and Class Struggles in Thailand”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019-1
“Democratisation and the Emergence of Class Conflicts: Income Inequality in Thailand, 2001-2016”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/15
Peter Sandholt Jensen
University of Southern Denmark
Peter Sandholt Jensen
University of Southern Denmark
Personal page
anders-jensen anders-jensen
Anders Jensen
Harvard Kennedy School
anders-jensen
Anders Jensen
Harvard Kennedy School
Personal page
“Globalization and Factor Income Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/05
Pamela Katic
International Water Management Institute
Pamela Katic
International Water Management Institute
Personal page
“Top wealth shares in Australia 1915–2012;” Review of Income and Wealth; 62(2): 209-222
Arthur Kennickell
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Arthur Kennickell
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Personal page
Nak Nyeon Kim
Dongguk University
Nak Nyeon Kim
Dongguk University
“Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/03
“Wealth Inequality in Korea, 2000-2013: Evidence from Inheritance Tax Statistics”, Journal of the Korean Welfare State and Social Policy, 2018
“Update and Extension of Korea’s Top Income Shares”, WID.world Technical Note 2018/3
“Top Incomes in Korea: Update, 1933-2016”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/13
“Top Incomes in Korea, 1933-2010: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics”, WID.world Working Paper, 2014/2
“Korea’s first industrial revolution, 1911-1940”, Explorations in Economic History, 2012
Jongil Kim
Dongguk University
Jongil Kim
Dongguk University
“Update and Extension of Korea’s Top Income Shares”, WID.world Technical Note 2018/3
“Top Incomes in Korea, 1933-2010: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics”, WID.world Working Paper, 2014/2
Rishabh Kumar
University of Massachusetts Boston
Rishabh Kumar
University of Massachusetts Boston
Personal page
“The evolution of wealth-income ratios in India, 1860-2012”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/07
Camille Landais
London School of Economics and Political Science
Camille Landais
London School of Economics and Political Science
Personal page
“Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/03
Neil Lee portrait Neil Lee portrait
Neil Lee
London School of Economics
Neil Lee portrait
Neil Lee
London School of Economics
Professor of Economic Geography
Personal page
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
Wouter Leenders
University of California, Berkeley
Wouter Leenders
University of California, Berkeley
Murray Leibbrandt
University of Cape Town
Murray Leibbrandt
University of Cape Town
Personal page
Andrew Leigh
Australian House of Representatives
Andrew Leigh
Australian House of Representatives
Personal page
“Inequality and Market Concentration: New Evidence from Australia”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/16
“Top wealth shares in Australia 1915–2012;” Review of Income and Wealth; 62(2): 209-222
Top Incomes in Indonesia 1920-2004, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Top Incomes in New Zealand 1921-2005: Understanding the Effects of Marginal Tax Rates, Migration Threat and the Macroeconomy”, Review of Income and Wealth, 54(2): 149-165.
“The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia,” Economic Record, 83(262): 247-261,
The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
The Distribution of Top Incomes in New Zealand, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
David Leite
Paris School of Economics
David Leite
Paris School of Economics
Personal page
The “Firm as Tax Shelter: Micro Evidence and Aggregate Implications of Consumption through the Firm”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/25
Ming-Jen Lin Ming-Jen Lin
Ming-Jen Lin
Dept. of Economics, National Taiwan University
Ming-Jen Lin
Ming-Jen Lin
Dept. of Economics, National Taiwan University
Distinguished Professor
Personal page
“Distributional National Accounts for Taiwan, 1981-2017”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/15
Juliana Londoño Velez
University of California-Berkeley
Juliana Londoño Velez
University of California-Berkeley
Personal page
“High incomes and personal taxation in a development economy. Colombia 1993-2010,” CEQ working paper 12, 2013
Andrew Lonsdale
London School of Economics
Andrew Lonsdale
London School of Economics
Personal page
“Sociodemographic Inequalities and Political Cleavages: An Investigation of Recent Elections, Nativist Movements, and Individual-level Voting Shifts”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/07
Margarita López Forero Margarita López Forero
Margarita López Forero
Université d'Evry/ U. Paris-Saclay
Margarita López Forero
Margarita López Forero
Université d'Evry/ U. Paris-Saclay
Personal page
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
Romaine Loubes
Paris School of Economics
Romaine Loubes
Paris School of Economics
East and Southern Africa Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Africa”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/07
Maria Ana Lugo
World Bank
Maria Ana Lugo
World Bank
Personal page
Jacob Lundberg
Uppsala University
Jacob Lundberg
Uppsala University
Personal page
Nora Lustig
Tulane University
Nora Lustig
Tulane University
Personal page
“Inequality Bands: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/08
Isabel Martinez
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
Isabel Martinez
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
Personal page
“A Safe Harbor: Wealth-Income Ratios in Switzerland over the 20th Century and the Role of Housing Prices”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/28
“Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2010”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017
“Switzerland: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2011-2014, and revision for 1995-2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2018/01
Appendix to “Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2010”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017
“Volatile top income shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the evolution between 1981 and 2009”, 2014
“Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2008”, 2013
“Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution between 1981 and 2008”, University of St. Gallen, Department of Economics Discussion Paper 2012-27, 2012
Clara Martínez Toledano
Imperial College Business School
Clara Martínez Toledano
Imperial College Business School
Wealth Distribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
Personal page
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/10
“Wealth inequality in Indonesia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/12
“Wealth inequality in the Netherlands”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/13
Appendix to “Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
“Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/13
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/01
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Distributional Wealth Accounts in Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/12
Appendix to “Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
“Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, 1967-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/08
“Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/15
“Building the World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: A New Dataset on Electoral Behaviors in 50 Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/04
“Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/04
“Paraísos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/26
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/02
“Rising inequalities and political cleavages in Spain”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/4
“Desigualdades crecientes y divisiones políticas en España”, Nota temática WID.world 2019/4
“Wealth in Spain, 1900-2014: A Country of Two Lands”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/5
“Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/3
“Housing Bubbles, Offshore Assets and Wealth Inequality in Spain”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/19
Linus Mattauch
Technical University of Berlin, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Linus Mattauch
Technical University of Berlin, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Personal page
“International attitudes toward global policies for poverty reduction and climates change”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/08
Roxana Maurizio
IIEP-UBA-Conicet
Roxana Maurizio
IIEP-UBA-Conicet
Ricardo Mayer
Universidad Diego Portales
Ricardo Mayer
Universidad Diego Portales
Personal page
“Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
Appendix to “Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
Branko Milanovic
City University of New York
Branko Milanovic
City University of New York
Personal page
“Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/05
“Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the United States, 1950-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/27
“From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban elite transformation between 1988 and 2013”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/10
Appendix to “Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/05
Riyana Miranti
University of Canberra
Riyana Miranti
University of Canberra
Personal page
Zhexun Mo
Paris School of Economics
Zhexun Mo
Paris School of Economics
East Asia Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/08
“Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/28
“Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/03
“Non-Meritocrats or Conformist Meritocrats? A Redistribution Experiment in China and France”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/21
“2023 DINA for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/08
“Not My Money to Touch: Experimental Evidence on Redistributive Preferences under Market Transition in China”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/20
“Is East Asia Becoming Plutocratic?”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/05
“2022 DINA Regional Update for East Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/04
Michail Moatsos
Maastricht University ; King's College London
Michail Moatsos
Maastricht University ; King's College London
Personal page
“Household Wealth and its distribution in the Netherlands, 1854-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/19
Jørgen Modalsli
Statistisk Sentralbyrå
Jørgen Modalsli
Statistisk Sentralbyrå
Personal page
“The ins and outs of top income mobility”, Statistics Norway Research Department Discussion Papers n. 762, October 2013
Cornelia Mohren
Paris School of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
Cornelia Mohren
Paris School of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
Environmental Coordinator
Personal page
“Climate Change and Wealth Inequality: A Literature Review and Numerical Insights”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/27
Salvatore Morelli
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF)
Salvatore Morelli
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF)
Personal page
“A New Geography of Inequality: Top incomes in Italian Regions and Inner Areas”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/19
“The concentration of personal wealth in Italy, 1995-2016”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/14
“Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century.”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/2
Marc Morgan
University of Geneva
Marc Morgan
University of Geneva
Research fellow
Personal page
“Income Inequality Series for Dominican Republic”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/01
“The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/07
“More Unequal or Not as Rich? Revisiting the Latin American Exception”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/13
“Income Inequality Series for Latin America and the Caribbean”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/07
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/01
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/17
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/07
Appendix to “Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/07
“Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/07
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/08
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Income Inequality Series for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/02
“Inequality in Latin America Revisited: Insights from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/09
“What’s New About Income Inequality in Europe? (1980-2019)” World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/04
“2020 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/04
“Rising inequalities and political cleavages in Spain”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/4
“Desigualdades crecientes y divisiones políticas en España”, Nota temática WID.world 2019/4
“Extreme Inequality: Evidence From Brazil, India, the Middle-East, and South Africa”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/4
“The Weight of the Rich: Improving Surveys Using Tax Data”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/12
“Le Brésil divisé: retour sur la politisation croissante des inégalités”, Note Thématique WID.world 2018/3
“Brazil Divided: Hindsights on the Growing Politicization of Inequality”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/3
Data files to “Falling Inequality beneath Extreme and Persistent Concentration: New Evidence for Brazil Combining National Accounts, Surveys and Fiscal Data, 2001-2015”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/12
“Falling Inequality beneath Extreme and Persistent Concentration: New Evidence for Brazil Combining National Accounts, Surveys and Fiscal Data, 2001-2015”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/12
Chiaki Moriguchi
Hitotsubashi University
Chiaki Moriguchi
Hitotsubashi University
Personal page
“Japan Estimates of Top Income Shares: Update up to 2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/7
The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan 1886-2005, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Rowaida Moshrif
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Rowaida Moshrif
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Co-director and Head of Data
Personal page
“Global Inequality Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID Macro Series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/11
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Historical Inequality Series on WID.world – Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/01
“Income Inequality in the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/06
“2022 DINA Regional Update for the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/05
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/16
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/04
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/06
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/10
“Update of global income inequality estimates on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/11
“2020 DINA Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/08
“Income Inequality in the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/06
“Income Inequality in the Middle East”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/06
Auto Draft
Mathilde-munoz Mathilde-munoz
Mathilde Muñoz
Paris School of Economics
Mathilde-munoz
Mathilde Muñoz
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
“Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/17
“Trading non-tradables: the implications of Europe’s job posting policy”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/06
“How Much are the Poor Losing from Tax Competition?”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/11
“Do European Top Earners React to Labour Taxation Through Migration?”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/12
“How Much Are the Poor Losing from Tax Competition?”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/07
Brian Murphy
Statistics Canada
Brian Murphy
Statistics Canada
Stella Muti
Paris School of Economics
Stella Muti
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Mohamed Nana
Paris School of Economics
Mohamed Nana
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Theresa Neef
DIW Berlin
Theresa Neef
DIW Berlin
Gender Inequality Coordinator
Personal page
“The Long Way to Gender Equality: Gender Pay Differences in Germany, 1871-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/02
“Inequality trends in Europe”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/04
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Russia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/03
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/02
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/10
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/08
“Half the sky? The Female Labor Income Share in a Global Perspective”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/22
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Georgia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/09
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“2020 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/04
“What’s New About Income Inequality in Europe? (1980-2019)” World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/04
“2020 DINA Update for the Russian Federation”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/05
“Income Inequality in Russia compared to Eastern Europe (1980-2019)”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/05
“2021 DINA Regional Update for the Russian Federation”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/18
Gastón Nievas Offidani
Paris School of Economics
Gastón Nievas Offidani
Paris School of Economics
National Accounts Coordinator
Personal page
“Global Inequality Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID Macro Series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/11
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Allocating missing foreign wealth and missing foreign income: sources and methods used in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/03
“Has the US exorbitant privilege become a rich world privilege? Rates of return and foreign assets from a global perspective, 1970-2022”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/14
Auto Draft
Brian Nolan
Oxford University
Brian Nolan
Oxford University
Personal page
“Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/17
“Updating Top Incomes for Ireland to 2015”, WID.world Technical Note, 2018/02
“Updating Top Incomes Shares for Ireland 2000-2009”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/6
Long Term Trends in Top Income Shares in Ireland, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Filip Novokmet
Paris School of Economics
Filip Novokmet
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
“Income Inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the Twentieth Century”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/12
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
“Income inequality in the 21st century Poland”, World Inequality Lab 2023/31
“The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/06
“Global Land Inequality”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/10
“Political conflict, social inequality and electoral cleavages in Central-Eastern Europe, 1990-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/25
“Between Communism and Capitalism: Long-Term Inequality in Poland, 1892-2015”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/08
“From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban elite transformation between 1988 and 2013”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/10
“Top incomes in Croatia and Slovenia, from 1960s until today”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/8
Data files to “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“The long-run evolution of inequality in the Czech Lands, 1898-2015”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/6
“Top Incomes during Wars, Communism and Capitalism: Poland 1892-2015,” WID.world Working Paper 2017/22
“Inequality in Poland: Estimating the whole distribution by g-percentile, 1983-2015,” WID.world Working Paper 2017/21
Appendix to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/10
“From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper N°2017/09
Data Files to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”
Morten Nyborg Støstad
FAIR Institute, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Morten Nyborg Støstad
FAIR Institute, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Personal page
“The Consequences of Inequality: Beliefs and Redistributive Preferences”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/18″
Moritz Odersky
Paris School of Economics
Moritz Odersky
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Henry Ohlsson
Uppsala University
Henry Ohlsson
Uppsala University
Personal page
Carlos Oliveira
Paris School of Economics
Carlos Oliveira
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
Tahnee Ooms
University of Oxford
Tahnee Ooms
University of Oxford
Personal page
“UK Estimates of Top Income Shares 2012-2013: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/4
Anna Orthofer
University of Stellenbosch
Anna Orthofer
University of Stellenbosch
Personal page
“Private Wealth in a Developing Country. A South African Perspective on Piketty”, ERSA Working Paper 564, 2015
Elisa Palagi Elisa Palagi
Elisa Palagi
Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy)
Elisa Palagi
Elisa Palagi
Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy)
“Tackling the Regressivity of the Italian Tax System: An Optimal Taxation Framework with Heterogeneous Returns to Capital”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/23
“Reconstructing Income Inequality in Italy: New Evidence and Tax Policy Implications from DINA”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/02
“Climate change and the nonlinear impact of precipitation anomalies on income inequality”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/20
“DINA income series for Italy, 2004-2015”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/11
“A Micro Perspective on R>G”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/03
Thomas Piketty
Paris School of Economics and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Thomas Piketty
Paris School of Economics and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Co-director
Personal page
“Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2024/01
“Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09
“Le début de la fin de la tripartition ? Élections européennes et inégalités sociales en France, 1994-2024”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/18
“Global Inequality Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID Macro Series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/11
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Allocating missing foreign wealth and missing foreign income: sources and methods used in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/03
“Income Inequality in the United States: A Comment”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/04
“Historical Inequality Series on WID.world – Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/01
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/11
“Comment on Auten and Splinter (2023)”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/09
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
“Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/18
“Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/10
“Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/12
Privado: “Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
“Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/16
“Simplified Post-Tax Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/17
“Global Income Inequality 1820-2020: The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality”, WID.world Working Paper 2021/19
“Countries with Regional Income Imputations on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/15
“Building the World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: A New Dataset on Electoral Behaviors in 50 Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/15
“Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Appendix to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Data file 1 to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Data file 2 to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
Data files to “Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
“Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/18
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Predistribution vs. Redistribution: Evidence from France and the U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 1 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
Data File 2 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
“Countries with Regional Imputations on WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/13
Appendix to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
“Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France”, WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
“Social Inequality and the Dynamics of Political and Ethnolinguistic Divides in Pakistan, 1970-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/16
“Electoral cleavages and socioeconomic inequality in Germany 1949-2017”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/15
“Political conflict, social inequality and electoral cleavages in Central-Eastern Europe, 1990-2018”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/25
“Growing Cleavages in India? Evidence from the Changing Structure of Electorates, 1962-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/05
Data files to “Simplified distributional national accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“Simplified Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?, forthcoming Review of Income and Wealth
“Inequality and Redistribution in France, 1990-2018: Evidence from Post-Tax Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/10
“Trois décennies d’inégalités et de redistribution en France (1990-2018)”, WID.world Issue Brief 2018/2
Data files to “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality & the Changing Structure of Political Conflict”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/7
“The End of the Rentiers: Paris 1842-1957”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/1
Data files to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
Appendix to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/16
“Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“Generalized Pareto Curves : Theory and Applications”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/3
“Indian Income Inequality, 1922-2015: from British Raj to Billionaire Raj?”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/11
“Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Data Files to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA)”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/04
Appendix to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.World Working Paper, 2017/05
Presentation slides to “Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Data Files to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”
Appendix to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/10
“From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper N°2017/09
Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/06
Main Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Presentation Slides to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Appendix to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/7
“Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/6
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
Appendix to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/6
“Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Data Files to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France, 1800-2014”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Presentation Slides to “Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France, 1800-2014”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/5
Presentation slides to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/7
Appendix to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/4
“France Preliminary Estimates of Top Income Shares 2006-2012: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/5
“Carbon and inequality: From Kyoto to Paris”, WID.world Working Paper 2015/7
“Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Data Appendix to “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010” ,Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Privado: Piketty, Thomas and Zucman, Gabriel “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010”, Paris School of Economics, 2013
“The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 3-20, 2013
“Japan Estimates of Top Income Shares: Update up to 2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/7
Top Indian Incomes 1922-2000, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Income, Wage and Wealth Inequality in France 1901-1998, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Income and Wage Inequality in the United States 1913-2002, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
“Income inequality in France, 1901-1998”, Journal of Political Economy, 2003
“Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003
“Income Inequality in France 1901-98”, CEPR Discussion Papers, 2001
Auto Draft
Florencia Pinto
Paris School of Economics
Florencia Pinto
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Elena Pisano
Bank of Italy
Elena Pisano
Bank of Italy
Top Incomes in Italy 1974-2004, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Mark Price
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Mark Price
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Director of Research for School Funding and Finance
Personal page
“Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county,” Economic Policy Institute Report
“Frank-Sommeiller-Price Series for Top Income Shares by US States since 1917”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/7
Nancy Qian
Yale University
Nancy Qian
Yale University
Personal page
Wenlan Qian
National University of Singapore
Wenlan Qian
National University of Singapore
Personal page
“Like Father Like Son? Social Engineering and Intergenerational Mobility in Housing Consumption”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/16
tom-raster tom-raster
Tom Raster
EHESS/PSE
tom-raster
Tom Raster
EHESS/PSE
Research fellow
Personal page
“Contagious Coercion: the Effect of Plagues on Serfdom in the Baltics”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/23
Yannic Rehm
Paris School of Economics
Yannic Rehm
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Personal page
“The Carbon Footprint of Capital”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/26
“Measuring the Carbon Content of Wealth: Evidence from France and Germany”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/12
Marja Riihela
Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT)
Marja Riihela
Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT)
Personal page
Trends in Top Income Shares in Finland, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Anne-Sophie Robilliard
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD - France)
Anne-Sophie Robilliard
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD - France)
West and Central Africa Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Africa”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/07
“What’s new about income inequality in Africa?”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/09
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Africa”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/06
“Half the sky? The Female Labor Income Share in a Global Perspective”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/22
“2021 DINA Regional Update for Africa”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/05
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“2020 DINA Update for Countries of the Africa region”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/03
“What’s New About Income Inequality in Africa?”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/03
Jesper Roine
Stockholm School of Economics
Jesper Roine
Stockholm School of Economics
Personal page
Top Incomes in Sweden over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Andrea Roventini Andrea Roventini
Andrea Roventini
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Andrea Roventini
Andrea Roventini
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Personal page
“Tackling the Regressivity of the Italian Tax System: An Optimal Taxation Framework with Heterogeneous Returns to Capital”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/23
“Reconstructing Income Inequality in Italy: New Evidence and Tax Policy Implications from DINA”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/02
“Climate change and the nonlinear impact of precipitation anomalies on income inequality”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/20
Emmanuel Saez
University of California at Berkeley
Emmanuel Saez
University of California at Berkeley
Scientific Co-director
Personal page
“Income Inequality in the United States: A Comment”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/04
“Comment on Auten and Splinter (2023)”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/09
“Real-Time Inequality”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/14
“Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/18
“Top Wealth in America: A Reexamination”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/17
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Trends in US Income and Wealth Inequality: Revising After the Revisionists”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/21
“The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/20
Data files to “Simplified distributional national accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“Simplified Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
Presentation slides to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/7
Appendix to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/4
“Frank-Sommeiller-Price Series for Top Income Shares by US States since 1917”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/7
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2013 preliminary estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/1
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2014 preliminary estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/6
“The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 3-20, 2013
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2011 preliminary estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/1
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2012 preliminary estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/3
“Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2009 and 2010 estimates)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/2
Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan 1886-2005, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009
Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Income and Wage Inequality in the United States 1913-2002, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada 1920-2000, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
“Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003
Guillaume Saint-Jacques
MIT
Guillaume Saint-Jacques
MIT
Wiemer Salverda
University of Amsterdam
Wiemer Salverda
University of Amsterdam
Personal page
“Top Incomes, Income and Wealth Inequality in the Netherlands: The first 100 Years 1914–2014 – what’s next?;” WID.world Working Paper 2019/02
“Extending the Top-Income Shares for the Netherlands from 1999 to 2012: An explanatory note”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/4
Top Incomes in the Netherlands over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Daniel Sánchez Ordóñez
Paris School of Economics
Daniel Sánchez Ordóñez
Paris School of Economics
Personal page
Justin Sandefur
Center for Global Development
Justin Sandefur
Center for Global Development
Personal page
Claudia Sanhueza
Universidad Diego Portales
Claudia Sanhueza
Universidad Diego Portales
Personal page
“Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
Appendix to “Top Income in Chile: A Historical Perspective of Income Inequality (1964-2015)”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/11
Christoph Schinke
Deutschkurse bei der Universität München e.V.
Christoph Schinke
Deutschkurse bei der Universität München e.V.
Personal page
Moritz Schularick
University of Bonn
Moritz Schularick
University of Bonn
Personal page
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
“Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/09
“The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/06
Paul Segal
King's College
Paul Segal
King's College
Personal page
Gregor Semieniuk
World Bank, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gregor Semieniuk
World Bank, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Personal page
“Climate Change and Wealth Inequality: A Literature Review and Numerical Insights”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/27
“Potential pension fund losses should not deter high-income countries from bold climate action”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/09
Paul Sharp
Syddansk Universitet
Paul Sharp
Syddansk Universitet
Personal page
Tien Foo Sing
National University of Singapore
Tien Foo Sing
National University of Singapore
Personal page
“Like Father Like Son? Social Engineering and Intergenerational Mobility in Housing Consumption”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/16
Ram Singh
Delhi School of Economics, U of Delhi
Ram Singh
Delhi School of Economics, U of Delhi
Personal page
“Do the Wealthy Underreport their Income? Using General Election Filings to Study the Income-Wealth Relationship in India”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/01
Louis Sirugue
Paris School of Economics
Louis Sirugue
Paris School of Economics
Personal page
“To become or not to become French: Conscription, naturalization, and labor market integration”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/29
“Intergenerational Income Mobility in France: A Comparative and Geographic Analysis”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/28
Timothy Smeeding
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Timothy Smeeding
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Personal page
Alice Sodano
Alice Sodano
Western Europe Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/05
“World Totals in WID: Core Territories, Core Countries and Core Macro and Distributional Variables”, 1820-2023, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/02
“Has the US exorbitant privilege become a rich world privilege? Rates of return and foreign assets from a global perspective, 1970-2022”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/14
“2023 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/07
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/10
“Wealth inequality in Indonesia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/12
“Wealth inequality in the Netherlands”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/13
“Inequality trends in Europe”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2022/04
“2022 DINA Regional Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/02
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/13
“Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/04
“Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/04
Anmol Somanchi
Paris School of Economics
Anmol Somanchi
Paris School of Economics
Global Justice Coordinator
Personal page
“Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09
“Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2024/01
“Extending WID Population Series: Projections 2024-2100 & Age/Gender Breakdowns”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/12
Auto Draft
Estelle Sommeiller
Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales
Estelle Sommeiller
Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales
Personal page
“Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county,” Economic Policy Institute Report
“Frank-Sommeiller-Price Series for Top Income Shares by US States since 1917”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/7
Aurélie Sotura
Paris School of Economics
Aurélie Sotura
Paris School of Economics
Jakob Egholt Søgaard
The Danish Ministry of Taxation
Jakob Egholt Søgaard
The Danish Ministry of Taxation
Personal page
“The long-run history of income inequality in Denmark: Top incomes from 1870 to 2010”, EPRU Working Paper Series 2013-01, 2013
Stefanie Stantcheva
Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva
Harvard University
Research fellow
“Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/17
“Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/03
Hsuan-Li Su Hsuan-Li Su
Hsuan-Li Su 
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University
Hsuan-Li Su
Hsuan-Li Su 
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University
Assistant Professor
Personal page
“Distributional National Accounts for Taiwan, 1981-2017”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/15
Risto Sullstrom
Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT)
Risto Sullstrom
Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT)
Trends in Top Income Shares in Finland, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Andy Summers
London School of Economics
Andy Summers
London School of Economics
“UK Estimates of Top Fiscal Income Shares: Note on revised methods”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/14
Matteo Targa
Università di Roma Tre
Matteo Targa
Università di Roma Tre
Personal page
“The Impact of Communist Party Membership on Wealth Distribution and Accumulation in Urban China”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/04
Hannah Tarrant
London School of Economics
Hannah Tarrant
London School of Economics
“UK Estimates of Top Fiscal Income Shares: Note on revised methods”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/14
Simon Toussaint Simon Toussaint
Simon Toussaint
Utrecht University School of Economics
Simon Toussaint
Simon Toussaint
Utrecht University School of Economics
Personal page
“Wealth inequality in the Netherlands”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/13
“Household Wealth and its distribution in the Netherlands, 1854-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/19
Panos Tsoukalis
New School for Social Research, NY
Panos Tsoukalis
New School for Social Research, NY
“Political Cleavages in Greece 1981-2019: the Brahmin Left and the Effects of the Crisis”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/06
Matti Tuomala
University of Tampere
Matti Tuomala
University of Tampere
Personal page
Trends in Top Income Shares in Finland, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Juliet-Nil Uraz
London School of Economics
Juliet-Nil Uraz
London School of Economics
Personal page
“Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/12
Pierre van der Eng
Australian National University
Pierre van der Eng
Australian National University
Personal page
Top Incomes in Indonesia 1920-2004, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Michael Veall
McMaster University
Michael Veall
McMaster University
Personal page
“Top income shares in Canada: recent trends and policy implications”, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2012
“Top Income Shares in Canada: Updates and Extensions”, McMaster University, Department of Economics, mimeo, 2010
The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada 1920-2000, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Gregory Verdugo Gregory Verdugo
Gregory Verduro
University Evry Val-d'Essonne
Gregory Verdugo
Gregory Verduro
University Evry Val-d'Essonne
Professor
Personal page
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
Andrea Vigorito
Universidad de la República
Andrea Vigorito
Universidad de la República
Personal page
“Uruguay Estimates of Top Income Shares 2009-2012”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/2
“Uruguay estimates of top income shares 2009-2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/2
“Desigualdad y altos ingresos en Uruguay. Un análisis en base a registros tributarios y encuestas de hogares para el periodo 2009-2011”, Informe Final Convenio CEF-FCEA (in Spanish), 2014
“Inequality and Top Income in Uruguay: A Comparison between Household Surveys and Income Tax Micro-data”, WID.world Working Paper, 2014/1
Tancrede-Voituriez Tancrede-Voituriez
Tancrède Voituriez
IDDRI
Tancrede-Voituriez
Tancrède Voituriez
IDDRI
Personal page
“Climate Inequality Report 2023”
“Developing countries in times of COVID: Comparing inequality impacts and policy responses”, World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2021/01
“The quest for green welfare state in developing countries”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/07
Daniel Waldenström
IFN Stockholm
Daniel Waldenström
IFN Stockholm
Personal page
“What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/08
“Salience of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/03
“How should capital be taxed? Theory and evidence from Sweden”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/9
Top Incomes in Sweden over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
qing qing
Qing Wang
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
qing
Qing Wang
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Personal page
Roger Wilkins
University of Melbourne
Roger Wilkins
University of Melbourne
Personal page
“Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/16
“Measuring top incomes using tax record data: a cautionary tale from Australia”, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015
“Measuring top incomes using tax record data: a cautionary tale from Australia”, NBER wp 19121, 2013
Guillermo Woo-Mora
PSE, EHESS
Guillermo Woo-Mora
PSE, EHESS
Personal page
“Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Skin Tone Disparities in Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/03
Ingrid Woolard
University of Cape Town
Ingrid Woolard
University of Cape Town
Personal page
Marcin_Wronski Marcin_Wronski
Marcin Wroński
Collegium of World Economy, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Marcin_Wronski
Marcin Wroński
Collegium of World Economy, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Research fellow
“The full distribution of adult height in Poland: cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition.”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/11
“Income inequality in the Duchy of Warsaw (1810/11)”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/12
“The impact of social security wealth on the distribution of wealth in the European Union”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/13
“Wealth Inequality in Interwar Poland”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/04
Silas Xuareb Silas Xuareb
Silas Xuereb
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Silas Xuareb
Silas Xuereb
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
“Historical Inequality Series on WID.world – Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/01
“2023 DINA Update for Canada and Provinces, 1920-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/04
“Income Inequality in Canada at the National and Subnational Levels, 1982-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/27
“Evolution des inégalités de revenus au Canada et regard sur les provinces, 1982-2021”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/27
“Worker Power, Rent-Seeking and Income Inequality in Canada: A Sector-Level Analysis” 2022/11
Li Yang
Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Li Yang
Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Research fellow
Personal page
“The Making of China and India in 21st Century: Long-Run Human Capital Accumulation from 1900 to 2020”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/24
“Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/03
“Intergenerational Mobility in Hong Kong”, 1976-2016, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/26
“The Impact of Communist Party Membership on Wealth Distribution and Accumulation in Urban China”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/04
“Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/05
“Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/10
Data file 2 to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Data file 1 to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
Appendix to “Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
“Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/18
“Towards equity and sustainability? China’s pension system reform moves center stage”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/13
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“2020 DINA Update for Asia”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/08
“Income Inequality and Ethnic Cleavages in Malaysia: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (1984-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/09
Appendix to “Income inequality and ethnic cleavages in Malaysia: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (1984-2014)”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/9
“Income inequality and ethnic cleavages in Malaysia: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (1984-2014)”, WID.world Issue Brief 2019/05
“From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban elite transformation between 1988 and 2013”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/10
Data files to “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/06
Main Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Presentation Slides to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Appendix to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/7
“Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/6
Appendix to “Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/05
Arief Anshory Yusuf
Universitas Padjadjaran
Arief Anshory Yusuf
Universitas Padjadjaran
Personal page
Gabriel Zucman
University of California at Berkeley
Gabriel Zucman
University of California at Berkeley
Scientific Co-director
Personal page
“Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/17
“Income Inequality in the United States: A Comment”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/04
“Comment on Auten and Splinter (2023)”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/09
“Globalization and Factor Income Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/05
“Real-Time Inequality”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/14
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
“Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/18
“Top Wealth in America: A Reexamination”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/17
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Trends in US Income and Wealth Inequality: Revising After the Revisionists”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/21
“The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/20
“The Missing Profits of Nations”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/12
“U.S. Distributional National Accounts: Updates”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/07
Data files to “Simplified distributional national accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“Simplified Distributional National Accounts”, WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
“From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
Data files to “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/2
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
World Inequality Report 2018
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
“From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper N°2017/09
Data Files to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”
Appendix to “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/10
Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/06
Main Data Files to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Presentation Slides to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Appendix to “Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/7
“Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/6
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
Presentation slides to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/7
Appendix to “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/4
“Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Data Appendix to “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010” ,Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Privado: Piketty, Thomas and Zucman, Gabriel “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010”, Paris School of Economics, 2013
Álvaro Zuñiga-Cordero
Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Álvaro Zuñiga-Cordero
Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Central America and the Caribbean Coordinator
Personal page
“2024 DINA Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/10
“2023 DINA Update for Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/06
“Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
Appendix to “Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/11
Stanislaw Zytynski
Paris School of Economics
Stanislaw Zytynski
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant

In Memoriam

Tony Atkinson
1944-2017
CO-DIRECTOR OF THE WORLD TOP INCOMES DATABASE (2011-2015) AND OF WID.WORLD (2015-2017)
Tony Atkinson
1944-2017
CO-DIRECTOR OF THE WORLD TOP INCOMES DATABASE (2011-2015) AND OF WID.WORLD (2015-2017)
Personal page
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century.”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/2
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
“Top Incomes in Malaysia 1947 to the Present (With a Note on the Straits Settlements 1916 to 1921)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/3
“Top Incomes in Central Africa: Historical Evidence”, WID.world Working Paper, 2015/4
“The Distribution of Top Incomes in Former British West Africa”, WID.world Working Paper, 2015/3
“Top Incomes in East Africa Before and After Independence”, WID.world Working Paper, 2015/2
“Top Incomes in Colonial Seychelles”, WID.world Working Paper, 2015/5
“UK Estimates of Top Income Shares 2012-2013: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/4
“New Zealand: Estimates of Top Shares for 2011/2012, and Revision for 2010/2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/3
“UK Estimates of Top Income Shares 2011-2012: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/1
“The ins and outs of top income mobility”, Statistics Norway Research Department Discussion Papers n. 762, October 2013
“New Zealand: Estimates of Top Shares for 2010/2011, and Revision for 1999/2000-2009/2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/2
“Update and Extension of South Africa Estimates of Top Shares up to 2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/6
“The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 3-20, 2013
“Top Incomes in Malaysia 1947 to the Present (With a Note on the Straits Settlements 1916 to 1921)”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/5
“UK Estimates of Top Income Shares 2010-2011: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/7
“The long-run history of income inequality in Denmark: Top incomes from 1870 to 2010”, EPRU Working Paper Series 2013-01, 2013
“Update and Extension of South Africa Estimates of Top Shares up to 2009”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/4
“Update and Extension of New Zealand Estimates of Top Shares”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/1
“UK Estimates of Top Income Shares 2009-2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/3
“UK Estimates of Top Income Shares 2009-2010: Revised Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/5
“Evidence on Top Incomes in Tanzania 1948-1970”, Mimeo, 2011
“Income Distribution and Taxation in Mauritius: A Seventy-five Year History of Top Incomes”, Mimeo, 2011
Top Incomes in Norway, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa 1903-2007”, CEPR Discussion Paper 8155, 2010
Top Incomes in a Rapidly Growing Economy: Singapore, Top Incomes. A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Top Incomes in New Zealand 1921-2005: Understanding the Effects of Marginal Tax Rates, Migration Threat and the Macroeconomy”, Review of Income and Wealth, 54(2): 149-165.
“The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia,” Economic Record, 83(262): 247-261,
The Distribution of Top Incomes in the United Kingdom 1908-2000, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
The Distribution of Top Incomes in New Zealand, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007
Top Incomes in the Netherlands over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries, OUP, 2007