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
| Research fellows
| Communication & IT

Rolf Aaberge

Paolo Acciari

Paolo Acciari
Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy)

Arun Advani

Arun Advani
University of Warwick

Facundo Alvaredo
Co-director

Facundo Alvaredo
Paris School of Economics, Oxford University and Conicet
Co-director
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
The Rich in Argentina over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005. 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

Miguel Artola

Miguel Artola
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 Colonial Seychelles", WID.world Working Paper, 2015/5
"Top Incomes in East Africa Before and After Independence", WID.world Working Paper, 2015/2
"The Distribution of Top Incomes in Former British West Africa", WID.world Working Paper, 2015/3
"Top Incomes in Central Africa: Historical Evidence", WID.world Working Paper, 2015/4
"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
"UK Estimates of Top Income Shares 2009-2010: Revised Note on Methods", WID.world Technical Note, 2012/5
"UK Estimates of Top Income Shares 2009-2010", WID.world Technical Note, 2012/3
"Update and Extension of New Zealand Estimates of Top Shares", WID.world Technical Note, 2012/1
"Income Distribution and Taxation in Mauritius: A Seventy-five Year History of Top Incomes", Mimeo, 2011
"Evidence on Top Incomes in Tanzania 1948-1970", 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 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
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
"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
Paris School of Economics
Wealth aggregates coordinator
"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 Bharti
South & South-East Asia Cooordinator

Nitin Bharti
South & South-East Asia Cooordinator

Thomas Blanchet
National accounts and statistical methods coordinator

Thomas Blanchet
Paris School of Economics
National accounts and statistical methods coordinator
"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”
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
"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
"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
“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

Florian Bonnet
Research fellow

Florian Bonnet
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow

Philipp Bothe
Research fellow

Philipp Bothe
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow

François Bourguignon
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

Pierre Brassac
Research Fellow

Pierre Brassac
Bonn University
Research Fellow

Pawel Bukowski

Pawel Bukowski
London School of Economics
"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

Miguel Camacho-Horvitz
Data manager

Miguel Camacho-Horvitz
Data manager

Rafael Carranza Navarrete

Rafael Carranza Navarrete
University of Oxford
Member of the ERC DINA

Lucas Chancel
Co-director

Lucas Chancel
Paris School of Economics and Iddri Sciences Po
Co-director
"Climate Inequality Report 2023"
Effective sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
"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
Figure "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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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
"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.
"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
"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
"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
Research fellow

Léo Czajka
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
"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 files 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
"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

François Delorme
Université de Sherbrooke

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

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

Alice Fauvel
Communications Manager

Alice Fauvel
Communications Manager

Matthew Fisher-Post
North America & Oceania coordinator

Matthew Fisher-Post
North America & Oceania coordinator
“Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/02
"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 appendix 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
Latin America coordinator

Ignacio Flores
Paris School of Economics
Latin America coordinator
"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

Juliette Fournier

Juliette Fournier
MIT

Mark Frank

Mark Frank
Sam Houston State University

Diane Gabeloteau
General Manager

Diane Gabeloteau
General Manager

Bertrand Garbinti
Research fellow

Bertrand Garbinti
Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) - ENSAE - Institut Polytechnique Paris
Research fellow
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”
"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
Data File 1 to “Predistribution Vs. Redistribution: Evidence From France And The U.S.”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/22
"Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France", WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
Appendix to "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
Appendix to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts", WID.World Working Paper, 2017/05
Data Files to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA)", WID.world Working Paper 2017/04
Presentation slides to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts", WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
"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
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

Santiago Garriga
Research fellow

Santiago Garriga
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow

Amory Gethin
Redistribution Coordinator

Amory Gethin
Paris School of Economics
Redistribution Coordinator
“Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/02
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Political Cleavages and the Representation of Social Inequalities in Japan 1953-2017", World Inequality Lab WP 2021/10
"Democratization and the Construction of Class Cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992-2019", World Inequality Lab WP 2021/09
"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
"Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018", World Inequality Lab WP 2021/07
Appendix to "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
"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
"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
"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"
"Brazil Divided: Hindsights on the Growing Politicization of Inequality", WID.world Issue Brief 2018/3
"Le Brésil divisé: retour sur la politisation croissante des inégalités", Note Thématique WID.world 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

Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
Research fellow

Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
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”
"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
"Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France", WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
Appendix to "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
Appendix to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts", WID.World Working Paper, 2017/05
Data Files to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA)", WID.world Working Paper 2017/04
Presentation slides to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts", WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
"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
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

Yajna Govind
Research fellow

Yajna Govind
Paris School of Economics
Research fellow
"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

Malka Guillot

Malka Guillot
Paris School of Economics
"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

Roberto Iacono

Roberto Iacono
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Markus Jäntti

Markus Jäntti
Stockholms Universitet

Katharina Jenderny

Katharina Jenderny
Umeå Universitet

Anders Jensen

Anders Jensen
Harvard Kennedy School

Pamela Katic

Pamela Katic
International Water Management Institute

Nak Nyeon Kim

Nak Nyeon Kim
Dongguk University
"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

Camille Landais

Camille Landais
London School of Economics and Political Science

Wouter Leenders

Wouter Leenders
University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Leigh

Andrew Leigh
Australian House of Representatives
"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

Ming-Jen Lin
Distinguished Professor

Juliana Londoño Velez

Juliana Londoño Velez
University of California-Berkeley

Isabel Martinez

Isabel Martinez
Universität St. Gallen
"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 coordinator

Clara Martínez Toledano
Imperial College Business School
Wealth distribution coordinator
"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
"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
"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
"Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017", World Inequality Lab WP 2021/04
"Changing Party Systems, Socio-Economic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Northern Europe, 1956-2017", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 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
"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
"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

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

Jørgen Modalsli

Jørgen Modalsli
Statistisk Sentralbyrå
Elodie Moreau
Elodie Moreau

Salvatore Morelli

Salvatore Morelli
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF)

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
"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
"Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018", World Inequality Lab WP 2021/07
Appendix to "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
"2020 DINA Update for Europe", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/04
"What’s New About Income Inequality in Europe? (1980-2019)" World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/04
"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: 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
"Brazil Divided: Hindsights on the Growing Politicization of Inequality", WID.world Issue Brief 2018/3
"Le Brésil divisé: retour sur la politisation croissante des inégalités", Note Thématique WID.world 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
Head of Data | Middle East and North Africa Coordinator

Rowaida Moshrif
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Head of Data | Middle East and North Africa Coordinator
“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

Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy
Statistics Canada

Theresa Neef
Research fellow

Theresa Neef
DIW Berlin
Research fellow
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”
"2020 DINA Update for Europe", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/04
"What’s New About Income Inequality in Europe? (1980-2019)" World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/04
"2020 DINA Update for the Russian Federation", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/05
"Income Inequality in Russia compared to Eastern Europe (1980-2019)", World Inequality Lab Issue Brief 2020/05
"2021 DINA Regional Update for the Russian Federation", World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/18

Gastón Nievas Offidani
National accounts and statistical methods coordinator

Gastón Nievas Offidani
Paris School of Economics
National accounts and statistical methods coordinator

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
"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
"From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia", WID.world Working Paper 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
"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
Data Files to "From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016"
"From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016", WID.world Working Paper N°2017/09

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)

Thomas Piketty
Co-director

Thomas Piketty
Paris School of Economics and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Co-director
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
"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
"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
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
"Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France", WID.world Working Paper 2020/05
Appendix to "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
"From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia", WID.world Working Paper 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
"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
"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
"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
Appendix to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts", WID.World Working Paper, 2017/05
Data Files to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA)", WID.world Working Paper 2017/04
Presentation slides to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts", WID.world Working Paper, 2017/4
Appendix to "From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016", WID.world Working Paper 2017/10
Data Files to "From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016"
"From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016", WID.world Working Paper N°2017/09
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
"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
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
"Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Data Appendix to "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

Marja Riihela

Marja Riihela
Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT)

Anne-Sophie Robilliard
Subsaharan Africa Coordinator

Anne-Sophie Robilliard
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD - France)
Subsaharan Africa Coordinator
“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

Emmanuel Saez
Co-director

Emmanuel Saez
University of California at Berkeley
Co-director
"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
"Simplified Distributional National Accounts", WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
Data files to "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 2014 preliminary estimates)", WID.world Technical Note, 2015/6
"Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2013 preliminary estimates)", WID.world Technical Note, 2015/1
"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 2012 preliminary estimates)", WID.world Technical Note, 2013/3
"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 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

Daniel Sánchez Ordóñez
Research Fellow

Daniel Sánchez Ordóñez
Research Fellow

Claudia Sanhueza

Moritz Schularick

Antonis Skandalis
Developer

Antonis Skandalis
Developer

Alice Sodano
Western Europe Coordinator

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
Risto Sullstrom
Risto Sullstrom
Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT)

Andy Summers

Andy Summers
London School of Economics

Hannah Tarrant

Hannah Tarrant
London School of Economics

Simon Toussaint

Simon Toussaint
Utrecht University School of Economics

Matti Tuomala

Matti Tuomala
University of Tampere

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

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
Research fellow

Daniel Waldenström
Uppsala University
Research fellow
"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

Marcin Wroński
Research fellow

Marcin Wroński
Collegium of World Economy, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Research fellow
Silas Xuereb
Research Assistant
Silas Xuereb
Research Assistant

Li Yang
Research fellow

Li Yang
DIW Berlin
Research fellow
“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
"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
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
"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 Issue Brief 2019/05
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 Working Paper 2019/09
"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
"From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia", WID.world Working Paper 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
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
Appendix to “Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/05

Gabriel Zucman
Co-director

Gabriel Zucman
University of California at Berkeley
Co-director
"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
"Simplified Distributional National Accounts", WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
Data files to "Simplified distributional national accounts", WID.world Working Paper 2019/01
"From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia", WID.world Working Paper 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
"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
Appendix to "From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016", WID.world Working Paper 2017/10
Data Files to "From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016"
"From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016", WID.world Working Paper N°2017/09
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
"Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
Data Appendix to "Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010" ,Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014

Alvaro Zuniga-Cordero
Research fellow

Alvaro Zuniga-Cordero
Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Research fellow
"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