WID.world and World Inequality Lab Newsletter – March 2018

WID.world becomes the World Inequality Database

In March 2018, the name of WID.world was changed from the World Wealth and Income Database to the World Inequality Database. This was motivated by

New paper on the evolution of top income inequality in the Czech Lands, 1898-2015 (WID.world Working Paper 2018/6)

This new paper by Filip Novokmet presents new finding on the long-run dynamics of income inequality in Czech lands, from the end of the 19th

Gini coefficients available

WID.world now provides Gini coefficients on WID.world for more than 2000 inequality series (click here). The Gini, which provides a synthetic measure of inequality, ranges from 0

New Paper on the long-run accumulation of wealth in Spain, 1900-2014 (WID.world Working Paper 2018/5)

This new paper by Miguel Artola Blanco, Luis E. Bauluz and Clara Martínez-Toledano presents new finding on the long-run accumulation of wealth in Spain (1900-2014)

New paper on extreme income inequality in Brazil, India, the Middle-East and South Africa (WID.world Working Paper 2018/4)

This new paper by Lydia Assouad, Lucas Chancel and Marc Morgan presents new findings about inequality dynamics in

New paper on Generalized Pareto Curves (WID.world Working Paper 2018/3)

The new paper, “Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis”, by Thomas Blanchet, Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret and Clara Martínez-Toledano, presents recent

New paper on the transition from communism to capitalism in China and Russia (WID.world Working Paper 2018/2)

The new paper, “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, by Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty, Li Yang and

New paper on wealth inequality in Paris, 1842-1957 (WID.world Working Paper 2018/1)

This new paper by Thomas Piketty, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “The End of the Rentiers: Paris 1842-1957”, exploits a unique individual-level database collected from