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From housing gains to pension losses: new methods to reveal wealth inequality dynamics in Chile
March 26, 2025 | WID.world

The study of the inequality of wealth holds a central place in the research and policy agendas today. However, very few studies on wealth inequality ... Continue reading

A new framework to study global wealth inequality under climate change published in Nature Climate Change
March 3, 2025 | WID.world

While climate change and climate policies affect both physical capital and financial assets, their impacts on aggregate wealth and its distribution remain underexplored. Preliminary calculations ... Continue reading

Despite rising productivity, inequality within the agricultural sector has increased since 1950
February 19, 2025 | WID.world

One of the most striking changes in recent history has been the global shift from agricultural to non-agricultural employment. However, we know little about whether ... Continue reading

New estimates of wealth inequality based on the distribution of estates
February 3, 2025 | WID.world

The study of the inequality of wealth holds a central place in the research and policy agendas today. However, the overall picture remains highly incomplete, ... Continue reading

Wealth concentration increases the risks of financial crises, new study finds
January 27, 2025 | WID.world

The aftermath of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis has intensified research interest in the causes of financial crises. While financial crises have often been interpreted ... Continue reading

China’s contemporary paradox: rising inequality, falling support for redistribution
December 17, 2024 | WID.world

Over four decades of economic reforms, China has experienced a remarkable rise in living standards, alongside a tremendous increase in inequalities. China now has the ... Continue reading

Global demographic shifts: insights from 1800 to 2100
December 16, 2024 | WID.world

How has the world’s population transformed over the past two centuries, and what can we expect in the future? The World Inequality Database (WID) now ... Continue reading

Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa
December 12, 2024 | WID.world

How coercive were African colonial states?  Scholars – economists, historians, or political scientists – don’t always agree. Some see colonial states as omnipotent Leviathans, while ... Continue reading

Intergenerational Mobility in Hong Kong, 1976-2016
December 3, 2024 | WID.world

Hong Kong’s laissez-faire economic model spurred rapid growth in the second half of the 20th century, but it also led to rising inequality, placing it ... Continue reading