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2024: Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa

Denis Cogneau and Zhexun Mo

2024: Tackling the regressivity of the Italian tax system: An optimal taxation framework with heterogeneous returns to capital

Matteo Dalle Luche, Demetrio Guzzardi, Elisa Palagi, Andrea Roventini and Alessandro Santoro

2024: Lost in Aggregation: The Local Environmental and Welfare Effects of Large Industrial Shutdowns

Philipp Bothe

2024: Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

Guido Alfani and Sergio Sardone

2024: Leaving legacies and liabilities: The distribution of wealth at death

Franziska Disslbacher and Severin Rapp

2024: A New Geography of Inequality: Top incomes in Italian Regions and Inner Areas

Demetrio Guzzardi and Salvatore Morelli

2024: Le début de la fin de la tripartition ? Élections européennes et inégalités sociales en France, 1994-2024

Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty

2024: Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax

Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, Mathilde Munoz, Stefanie Stantcheva and Gabriel Zucman

2024: Inequality and Market Concentration: New Evidence from Australia

Lachlan Hotchin and Andrew Leigh

2024: Do People Distinguish Income from Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the Netherlands

Thomas Douenne, Oda Sund and Joël van der Weele

2024: Has the US exorbitant privilege become a rich world privilege? Rates of return and foreign assets from a global perspective, 1970-2022

Gastón Nievas and Alice Sodano

2024: Asset-Price Redistribution

Andreas Fagereng, Matthieu Gomez, Émilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Martin Holm, Benjamin Moll and Gisle Natvik

2024: Income Inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the Twentieth Century

Stefan Nikolić, Filip Novokmet and Piotr Paweł Larysz

2024: Top Earners and the Great Compression: New Estimates Based on Tax Records

Miguel Artola Blanco and Victor Manuel Gomez-Blanco

2024: Shortfall of Domestic Resources to Eradicate Extreme Poverty by 2030

Adrien Fabre

2024: Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj

Nitin Kumar Bharti, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty and Anmol Somanchi

2024: Inequality bands: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in latin america

Facundo Alvaredo, François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira and Nora Lustig

2024: Inequality in History: A long-Run View

Guido Alfani

2024: The Long Way to Gender Equality: Gender Pay Differences in Germany, 1871-2021

Theresa Neef

2024: The Wealth of Generations

Luis Bauluz and Timothy Meyer

2024: Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts

Sehyun Hong, Nak-Nyeon Kim, Zhexun Mo and Li Yang

2024: Trends and Inequality in Lifetime Earnings in France

Bertrand Garbinti, Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Vladimir Pecheu and Frédérique Savignac

2023: Income inequality in the 21st century Poland

Pawel Bukowski, Pawel Chrostek, Filip Novokmet and Marek Skawiński

2023: Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform

Roberto Iacono and Bard Smedsvik

2023: To become or not to become French: Conscription, naturalization, and labor market integration

Yajna Govind and Louis Sirugue

2023: Intergenerational Income Mobility in France: A Comparative and Geographic Analysis

Gustave Kenedi and Louis Sirugue

2023: Income Inequality in Canada at the National and Subnational Levels 1982-2021

Silas Xuereb, Matthew Fisher-Post, Francois Delorme and Camille Lajoie

2023: The Carbon Footprint of Capital: Evidence from France, Germany and the US based on Distributional Environmental Accounts

Lucas Chancel and Yannic Rehm

2023: Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty

Amory Gethin

2023: Revisiting Global Poverty Reduction: Public Goods and the World Distribution of Income, 1980-2022

Amory Gethin

2023: Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics

Tom Raster

2023: Political Inequality

Julia Cagé

2023: Government Redistribution and Development Global Estimates of Tax and Transfer Progressivity 1980-2019

Matthew Fisher-Post and Amory Gethin

2023: To become or not to become French: Conscription, naturalization, and labor market integration

Yajna Govind and Louis Sirugue

2023: Not My Money to Touch: Experimental Evidence on Redistributive Preferences under Market Transition in China

Nora Chen, Yuchen Huang and Zhexun Mo

2023: Capital vs. Labour: the Effect of Income Sources on Attitudes Toward the Top 1 Percent

Oscar Barrera-Rodriguez and Emmanuel Chavez

2023: The Non-Meritocrats or Conformist Meritocrats? A Redistribution Experiment in China and France

Margot Belguise, Yuchen Huang and Zhexun Mo

2023: The Consequences of Inequality: Beliefs and Redistributive Preferences

Max Lobeck and Morten Støstad

2023: Like Father Like Son? Social Engineering and Intergenerational Mobility in Housing Consumption

Sumit Agarwal, Yi Fan, Wenlan Qian and Tien Foo Sing

2023: The Far-Right Donation Gap

Julia Cagé, Moritz Hengel and Yuchen Huang

2023: Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019

Luis Bauluz, Paweł Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Lee, Margarita Lopez Forero, Filip Novokmet, Sébastien Breau, Neil Lee, Clément Malgouyres, Moritz Schularick and Gregory Verdugo

2023: The Impact of Social Security Wealth on the Distribution of Wealth in the European Union

Marcin Wroński

2023: Income inequality in the Duchy of Warsaw (1810/11)

Marcin Wroński

2023: The full distribution of adult height in Poland: cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition

Marcin Wroński

2023: Financialization more than globalization! The contribution of global cities to inequalities

Olivier Godechot, Nils Neumann, Lasse Henriksen, Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, Naomi Kodama, Zoltán Lippényi, Silvia Melzer, Halil Sabanci, Max Thaning, Paula Apascaritei, Dustin Holt, Nina Bandelj, István Boza, Marta Elvira, Gergely Hajdu, Alena Křižkova, Andrew Penner, Andreja Poje, William Rainey, Mirna Safi, Matthew Soener and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

2023: Potential pension fund losses should not deter high-income countries from bold climate action

Gregor Semieniuk, Lucas Chancel, Eulalie Saïsset, Philip Holden, Jean-Francois Mercure and Neil Edwards

2023: International Attitudes Toward Global Policies

Adrien Fabre, Thomas Douenne and Linus Mattauch

2023: Is Charitable Giving Political? Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Return

Julia Cagé and Malka Guillot

2023: Trading Non-tradables: the Implications of Europes's Job Posting Policy

Mathilde Muñoz

2022: Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation

Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

2022: Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018

Matthew Fisher-Post, Nicolas Hérault and Roger Wilkins

2022: Measuring the Carbon Content of Wealth Evidence from France and Germany

Yannic Rehm and Lucas Chancel

2022: Worker power, rent-seeking and income inequality in Canada: A sector-level analysis

Silas Xuereb

2022: Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?

Thomas Piketty and Li Yang

2022: The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes

Facundo Alvaredo, Mauricio de Rosa, Ignacio Flores and Marc Morgan

2022: Meritocracy as a WEIRD Phenomenon: Fairness Reasoning and Redistributive Preferences across the World

Yuchen Huang and Zhexun Mo

2022: Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018

Thilo Albers, Charlotte Bartels and Moritz Schularick

2022: Macroeconomic Determinants of South Africa's Post-Apartheid Income Distribution

Adam Aboobaker

2022: The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut

Luis Buluz, Filip Novokmet and Moritz Schularick

2022: The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut

Luis Bauluz, Filip Novokmet and Moritz Schularick

2022: Globalization and Factor Income Taxation

Pierre Bachas, Matthew Fisher-Post, Anders Jensen and Gabriel Zucman

2022: Wealth Inequality in Interwar Poland

Marcin Wroński

2022: Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Racial Inequalities in Latin America *

Luis Guillermo Woo-Mora

2022: Reconstructing Income Inequality in Italy: New Evidence and Tax Policy Implications from Distributional National Accounts

Demetrio Guzzardi, Elisa Palagi, Andrea Roventini and Alessandro Santoro

2022: Unequal access to higher education based on parental income: evidence from France *

Cécile Bonneau and Sébastien Grobon