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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

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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

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Firms as tax shelters: The disguise of personal expenses as business expenses erodes tax revenues

December 2, 2024 | WID.world

By how much and how do individuals who control firms blur the lines between personal and business expenses to avoid taxes? By disguising personal expenditures

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Inequality in 2024: a closer look at six regions

November 19, 2024 | WID.world

For more than 10 years, the World Inequality Lab has been working to produce data on income inequality, now covering 216 countries, with data going

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10 facts on global inequality in 2024

November 19, 2024 | WID.world

The World Inequality Database (WID) provides open access to the most extensive database on the historical evolution of economic inequality. Updated annually by the World

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China vs. India: how human capital shaped two distinct economic paths

November 18, 2024 | WID.world

Between the 1910s and 2010, the education systems in China and India experienced remarkable growth, producing millions of skilled graduates and employing vast numbers of

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Exploring optimal taxation to tackle the regressivity of Italy’s tax system

October 22, 2024 | WID.world

Income and wealth inequality have been steadily rising in most developed economies since the 1980s, driven by wealthier households earning higher returns on their capital.

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The local environmental and welfare effects of large industrial shutdowns in Germany

October 21, 2024 | WID.world

The clean energy transition and large-scale deindustrialization are transforming the industrial landscape of high-income economies, sparking debates over who will benefit and who will be

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Wealth and income inequality on the rise in preindustrial Southern Italy 1550-1800

October 17, 2024 | WID.world

Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies has only recently become the subject of systematic research. Southern Italy offers a particularly good setting for studying the long-term

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