Gimpelson and Treisman: Misperceiving Inequality
The Point: People's perceptions about inequality don't match up with economists' measurements of inequality. Surveys tell us that people...
2min+ Book Summary: Bourguignon's The Globalization of Inequality
The Point: In recent decades, global inequality across countries has been decreasing, while inequality within many countries has been...
Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, Turner: Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? (2014)
The Point: The authors find that intergenerational mobility in the United States has not decreased over time (looking at birth cohorts...
Attanasio and Pistaferri: Consumption Inequality over the Last Half Century (2014)
The Point: Attanasio and Pistaferri introduce a new imputation method for analyzing consumption inequality in the US. Most studies of...
Kopczuk: What do we know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.? (2015)
The Point: The data we have on wealth inequality is far less reliable than the data we have on income and wages. In this paper, Kopczuk...
Piketty & Saez: Income Inequality in the U.S. 1913-1998 (2003)
The Point: Nearly half a century later, this paper responds to Simon Kuznets' findings. Saez and Piketty find that over the course of the...
Kuznets: Economic Growth and Income Inequality (1955)
The Point: This paper from 1955 his of historical importance in the study of inequality. Looking at annual income levels over the course...
