Team
The Lab is composed of about forty people: co-directors, coordinators, research fellows, research assistants. It is hosted at the Paris School of Economics and the University of Berkeley, California. The World Inequality Lab works in close coordination with the large international WID.world network gathering over one hundred researchers on the five continents.
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| Co-directors and coordinators
| Other staff
Rolf Aaberge
Muhammed Abdul Khalid
Muhammed Abdul Khalid
IKMAS, National University of Malaysia
Adam Aboobaker
Adam Aboobaker
University of Manchester
Paolo Acciari
Paolo Acciari
Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy)
Arun Advani
Arun Advani
University of Warwick
Sumit Agarwal
Sumit Agarwal
National University of Singapore
Raavi Aggarwal
Research fellow
Anique Ahmed
Thilo Albers
Thilo Albers
Humboldt University
Guido Alfani
Guido Alfani
Bocconi University, Milan
Facundo Alvaredo
Co-director
Facundo Alvaredo
Paris School of Economics, Oxford University and Conicet
Co-director
"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
Marie Andreescu
Eastern Europe & Russia Coordinator
Marie Andreescu
ENS Paris
Eastern Europe & Russia Coordinator
Manuel Esteban Arias Osorio
Economist
Miguel Artola Blanco
Miguel Artola Blanco
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Lydia Assouad
Research fellow
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
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
Tony Atkinson
Tony Atkinson
CO-DIRECTOR OF THE WORLD TOP INCOMES DATABASE (2011-2015) AND OF WID.WORLD (2015-2017)
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
Jorge Atria
Jorge Atria
Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile
Leo Azzollini
Leo Azzollini
University of Oxford
Member of the ERC DINA
Pierre Bachas
Economist
Pierre Bachas
World Bank Research Group
Economist
Abhijit Banerjee
Oscar Barrera
Research fellow
Oscar Barrera
Research fellow
"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
Charlotte Bartels
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
Luis Bauluz
Wealth aggregates Coordinator
Luis Bauluz
CUNEF Universidad
Wealth aggregates Coordinator
"2024 Update for Wealth Inequality", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2024/14
"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
Michele Bavaro
University of Oxford
Member of ERC DINA
Yonatan Berman
Nitin Kumar Bharti
South & South-East Asia Coordinator
Nitin Kumar Bharti
NYU-Abu Dhabi
South & South-East Asia Coordinator
"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
National accounts and statistical methods coordinator
Thomas Blanchet
Paris School of Economics
National accounts and statistical methods coordinator
"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
Cécile Bonneau
Cécile Bonneau
Paris School of Economics (PSE), École Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm)
Florian Bonnet
Research fellow
Florian Bonnet
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Philipp Bothe
Wellbeing and Sustainability Coordinator
Philipp Bothe
Paris School of Economics
Wellbeing and Sustainability Coordinator
"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
Research fellow
François Bourguignon
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Antoine Bozio
Research fellow
Antoine Bozio
Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP) and Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
"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
Andrea Brandolini
DG Economics, Statistics and Research Banca d'Italia
STATISTICS AND RESEARCH BANCA D’ITALIA
Pierre Brassac
Economist
Pierre Brassac
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Economist
Sébastien Breau
Associate Professor
Sébastien Breau
McGill University
Associate Professor
Pawel Bukowski
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
Gabriel Burdín
Universidad de la República
"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
François Burq
Julia Cagé
Julia Cagé
Department of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
"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
Rafael Carranza Navarrete
Rafael Carranza Navarrete
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Lucas Chancel
Co-director
Lucas Chancel
Paris School of Economics and Iddri Sciences Po
Co-director
"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
"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
Summary of "Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions, 1990-2020" World Inequality Lab Study
"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
"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
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
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
Hat das europäische Sozialmodell dem Anstieg der Ungleichheit widerstanden? Ungleichheiten und Umverteilung in Europa, 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
"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
Aroop Chatterjee
Research Manager - Wealth Inequality
Aroop Chatterjee
Southern Centre for Inequality Studies - University of the Witwatersrand
Research Manager - Wealth Inequality
"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
Cyrus Chu
Denis Cogneau
Research fellow
Denis Cogneau
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
"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
Guillermo Cruces
Guillermo Cruces
CEDLAS
Léo Czajka
Léo Czajka
UCLouvain
"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
Mauricio De Rosa
Research fellow
Mauricio De Rosa
Universidad de la República
Research fellow
"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
Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich
Paris School of Economics; Groningen University
Andre Decoster
Andre Decoster
University of Leuven
Fabien Dell
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
Jonas Dietrich
Research Assistant
Jonas Dietrich
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Franziska Disslbacher
Franziska Disslbacher
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Thomas Douenne
Thomas Douenne
University of Amsterdam
Sacha Dray
Paula Druschke
Research Assistant
Paula Druschke
London School of Economics
Research Assistant
Carmen Durrer de la Sota
Research assistant
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
Middle East & North Africa Coordinator
Dima El Hariri
Middle East & North Africa Coordinator
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
Yi Fan
Yi Fan
National University of Singapore
Matthew Fisher-Post
North America & Oceania Coordinator
Matthew Fisher-Post
North America & Oceania Coordinator
"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
South America Coordinator
Ignacio Flores
Paris School of Economics, Roma III
South America Coordinator
"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
Reto Foellmi
Universität St. Gallen
"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
Tayla Forward
WID fellow
Tayla Forward
Paris School of Economics
WID fellow
Juliette Fournier
Juliette Fournier
MIT
Mark Frank
Mark Frank
Sam Houston State University
Mark Fransham
Valentina Gabrielli
Research Assistant
Valentina Gabrielli
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Bertrand Garbinti
Research fellow
Bertrand Garbinti
Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) - ENSAE - Institut Polytechnique Paris
Research fellow
"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
Research fellow
Santiago Garriga
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Amory Gethin
Redistribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
Amory Gethin
Paris School of Economics
Redistribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
"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
"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
"Wealth Inequality in South Africa", WID.world Working Paper 2021/16
"A Wealth Tax for South Africa", World Inequality Lab WP 2021/02
"Can Redistribution Keep Up with Inequality? Evidence from South Africa, 1993-2019", World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2021/20
"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
"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
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
"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
"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
"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
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
Appendix to "How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017", WID.world Working Paper 2019/06
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
"Global Inequality User Guide", WID.world Technical Note 2017/9
"Building a global income distribution brick by brick", WID.world Technical Note 2017/5
"Sending statistical series to WID.world", WID.world Technical Note 2017/4
Olivier Godechot
Olivier Godechot
Sciences Po, CRIS-CNRS and AxPo
Ricardo Gómez Carrera
World Inequality Report Coordinator
Ricardo Gómez Carrera
Paris School of Economics
World Inequality Report Coordinator
Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
Research fellow
Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
"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
Research fellow
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
Ben Grillet
Web developer
Ben Grillet
Web developer
Sébastien Grobon
Sébastien Grobon
Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne (CES)
Malka Guillot
Malka Guillot
HEC Liège
"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
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
Nicolas Hérault
Université de Bordeaux & University of Melbourne
Martin B. Holm
Martin B. Holm
University of Oslo
Sehyun Hong
Research fellow
Sehyun Hong
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Roberto Iacono
Roberto Iacono
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Markus Jäntti
Markus Jäntti
Stockholms Universitet
Katharina Jenderny
Katharina Jenderny
Umeå Universitet
Thanasak Jenmana
Research fellow
Thanasak Jenmana
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
“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
Anders Jensen
Anders Jensen
Harvard Kennedy School
Pamela Katic
Pamela Katic
International Water Management Institute
Nak Nyeon Kim
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
Rishabh Kumar
Rishabh Kumar
University of Massachusetts Boston
Camille Landais
Camille Landais
London School of Economics and Political Science
Neil Lee
Professor of Economic Geography
Neil Lee
London School of Economics
Professor of Economic Geography
Wouter Leenders
Wouter Leenders
University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Leigh
Andrew Leigh
Australian House of Representatives
"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
Ming-Jen Lin
Distinguished Professor
Ming-Jen Lin
Dept. of Economics, National Taiwan University
Distinguished Professor
Juliana Londoño Velez
Juliana Londoño Velez
University of California-Berkeley
Andrew Lonsdale
Margarita López Forero
Margarita López Forero
Université d'Evry/ U. Paris-Saclay
Romaine Loubes
East and Southern Africa Coordinator
Romaine Loubes
Paris School of Economics
East and Southern Africa Coordinator
Nora Lustig
Isabel Martinez
Isabel Martinez
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
"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
Wealth Distribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
Clara Martínez Toledano
Imperial College Business School
Wealth Distribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator
"2024 Update for Wealth Inequality", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2024/14
"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
"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
"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
Linus Mattauch
Technical University of Berlin, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Roxana Maurizio
Roxana Maurizio
IIEP-UBA-Conicet
Ricardo Mayer
Branko Milanovic
Branko Milanovic
City University of New York
“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
Zhexun Mo
East Asia Coordinator
Zhexun Mo
Paris School of Economics
East Asia Coordinator
"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
"Reform Windfall as Redistribution: A Survey Experiment on Redistributive Preferences in Contemporary China", WID.world Working Paper 2023/20
"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
“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
Michail Moatsos
Maastricht University ; King's College London
Jørgen Modalsli
Jørgen Modalsli
Statistisk Sentralbyrå
Cornelia Mohren
Environmental Coordinator
Cornelia Mohren
Paris School of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
Environmental Coordinator
Salvatore Morelli
Salvatore Morelli
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF)
"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
Research fellow
Marc Morgan
University of Geneva
Research fellow
"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
Rowaida Moshrif
Co-director and Head of Data
Rowaida Moshrif
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Co-director and Head of Data
"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
Mathilde Muñoz
Research fellow
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
Brian Murphy
Statistics Canada
Stella Muti
Research Assistant
Stella Muti
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Mohamed Nana
Research Assistant
Mohamed Nana
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Theresa Neef
Gender Inequality Coordinator
Theresa Neef
DIW Berlin
Gender Inequality Coordinator
"2024 Update for Female Labor Income Share", World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/13
"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”
"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
"Income Inequality in Russia compared to Eastern Europe (1980-2019)", World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/05
"2020 DINA Update for the Russian Federation", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/05
"2021 DINA Regional Update for the Russian Federation", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/18
Gastón Nievas Offidani
National Accounts Coordinator
Gastón Nievas Offidani
Paris School of Economics
National Accounts Coordinator
"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
Brian Nolan
Brian Nolan
Oxford University
"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
Research fellow
Filip Novokmet
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
"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
Morten Nyborg Støstad
FAIR Institute, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Moritz Odersky
Research Assistant
Moritz Odersky
Paris School of Economics
Research Assistant
Carlos Oliveira
Research fellow
Tahnee Ooms
Tahnee Ooms
University of Oxford
Anna Orthofer
Anna Orthofer
University of Stellenbosch
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
Co-director
Thomas Piketty
Paris School of Economics and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Co-director
"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
"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
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
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
"Simplified Distributional National Accounts", WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
Data files to "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
Data Appendix to "Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010" ,Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
"Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
"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
Florencia Pinto
Research fellow
Florencia Pinto
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Elena Pisano
Elena Pisano
Bank of Italy
Mark Price
Director of Research for School Funding and Finance
Mark Price
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Director of Research for School Funding and Finance
Wenlan Qian
Wenlan Qian
National University of Singapore
Tom Raster
Research fellow
Tom Raster
EHESS/PSE
Research fellow
Yannic Rehm
Research fellow
Yannic Rehm
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
Marja Riihela
Marja Riihela
Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT)
Anne-Sophie Robilliard
West and Central Africa Coordinator
Anne-Sophie Robilliard
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD - France)
West and Central Africa Coordinator
"2024 Update for Female Labor Income Share", World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/13
"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
Jesper Roine
Stockholm School of Economics
Andrea Roventini
Andrea Roventini
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
"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
Scientific Co-director
Emmanuel Saez
University of California at Berkeley
Scientific Co-director
"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
Guillaume Saint-Jacques
MIT
Wiemer Salverda
Wiemer Salverda
University of Amsterdam
"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
Claudia Sanhueza
Moritz Schularick
Moritz Schularick
University of Bonn
"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
Gregor Semieniuk
Gregor Semieniuk
World Bank, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tien Foo Sing
Tien Foo Sing
National University of Singapore
Ram Singh
Ram Singh
Delhi School of Economics, U of Delhi
Louis Sirugue
Louis Sirugue
Paris School of Economics
Alice Sodano
Western Europe Coordinator
Alice Sodano
Western Europe Coordinator
"2024 DINA Update for Europe", World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2024/05
"2024 Update for Wealth Inequality", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2024/14
"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
Global Justice Coordinator
Anmol Somanchi
Paris School of Economics
Global Justice Coordinator
"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
Estelle Sommeiller
Estelle Sommeiller
Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales
Aurélie Sotura
Aurélie Sotura
Paris School of Economics
Jakob Egholt Søgaard
Jakob Egholt Søgaard
The Danish Ministry of Taxation
Fausto Spiga
Research Fellow
Fausto Spiga
Paris School of Economics
Research Fellow
Stefanie Stantcheva
Research fellow
Stefanie Stantcheva
Harvard University
Research fellow
Hsuan-Li Su
Assistant Professor
Hsuan-Li Su
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University
Assistant Professor
Risto Sullstrom
Risto Sullstrom
Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT)
Andy Summers
Andy Summers
London School of Economics
Matteo Targa
Hannah Tarrant
Hannah Tarrant
London School of Economics
Simon Toussaint
Simon Toussaint
Utrecht University School of Economics
Panos Tsoukalis
Panos Tsoukalis
New School for Social Research, NY
Matti Tuomala
Matti Tuomala
University of Tampere
Juliet-Nil Uraz
Juliet-Nil Uraz
London School of Economics
Pierre van der Eng
Pierre van der Eng
Australian National University
Michael Veall
Michael Veall
McMaster University
"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 Verduro
Professor
Gregory Verduro
University Evry Val-d'Essonne
Professor
Andrea Vigorito
Andrea Vigorito
Universidad de la República
"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
Tancrède Voituriez
Daniel Waldenström
Daniel Waldenström
IFN Stockholm
"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
Roger Wilkins
Roger Wilkins
University of Melbourne
“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
Guillermo Woo-Mora
PSE, EHESS
Marcin Wroński
Research fellow
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 Xuereb
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
Research fellow
Li Yang
Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Research fellow
"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
Gabriel Zucman
Scientific Co-director
Gabriel Zucman
University of California at Berkeley
Scientific Co-director
"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
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 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
"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
Appendix to "Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China", WID.world Working Paper 2017/7
Presentation Slides to "Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China", WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Main Data Files to "Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China", WID.world Working Paper 2017/6
Data Files to "Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China", WID.world Working Paper 2017/06
"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
Data Appendix to "Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010" ,Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
"Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Álvaro Zuñiga-Cordero
Central America and the Caribbean Coordinator
Álvaro Zuñiga-Cordero
Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Central America and the Caribbean Coordinator
"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