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Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation
avril 26, 2023 | WID.world

  Using official information published by Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the CPC, we construct a database of officials who have been found ... Continuer la lecture

The Impact of Communist Party Membership on Wealth Distribution and Accumulation in Urban China
avril 26, 2023 | WID.world

This paper provides the first in-depth investigation into the evolution of the wealth gap between CCP and non-CCP households in urban China from 1995 to ... Continuer la lecture

Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions
avril 4, 2023 | WID.world

This technical note combines data from household surveys, government budgets, tax simulators, national accounts, and detailed fiscal incidence studies to construct a new database on ... Continuer la lecture

Historical Inequality Series
avril 4, 2023 | WID.world

The purpose of this technical note is to describe the construction of WID.world’s long-run per-adult income inequality series and adjustments made to ensure consistency with ... Continuer la lecture

Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States
avril 3, 2023 | WID.world

We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US ... Continuer la lecture

Uncovering the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
avril 3, 2023 | WID.world

  This paper introduces a new way of decomposing the evolution of the wealth distribution using a simple continuous time stochastic model, which separates the ... Continuer la lecture

Climate inequality report 2023, Fair taxes for a sustainable future in the global South
janvier 31, 2023 | WID.world

  The climate crisis has begun to disrupt human societies by severely  affecting the very foundations of human livelihood and social organisation. Climate impacts are ... Continuer la lecture

Do the Wealthy Underreport their Income? Using General Election Filings to Study the Income-Wealth Relationship in India
janvier 13, 2023 | WID.world

  The income reporting behaviour of different wealth groups is a critical public finance issue that has remained under-researched in the Indian and international contexts. ... Continuer la lecture

Household Wealth and its distribution in the Netherlands, 1854-2019
décembre 19, 2022 | WID.world

  We analyze the evolution of aggregate household wealth, its composition, and top wealth shares since the mid-19th century for the Netherlands, a country which ... Continuer la lecture