Wealth concentration in a developing economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994

By Thomas Piketty, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean‐Laurent Rosenthal. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1820–2050 (2011, background): “On average, women have been almost as rich as men in France ever since the early 19th century (with aggregate women-men wealth ratios usually in the 80%-90% range; this is largely due to the gender neutrality of the 1804 Civil Code; see Piketty et al (2006)).”
Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century (2018, background): “As shown in section 7, such a result carries through to the US; it also applies to 19th century Paris, (Piketty, PostelVinay and Rosenthal, 2006).”
Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873-2006 (2009, unknown): “The extraordinarily long time period is motivated by the fact that English industrialization began in the second half of the eighteenth century, while it started some 50–100 years later in the U.S. and France, and more than 100 years later in Sweden.”
Historical financing of small- and medium-size enterprises ☆ (2006, unknown): “mely concentrated (Daumard, 1973; Piketty et al., 2006 ).”
The Forbes 400 and the Pareto wealth distribution (2006, background): “Some studies document variations in the wealth inequality over periods much longer than the 16-year period investigated here (see, for instance, Steckel and Moehling, 2001; Piketty et al., 2004 ).”
Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run (2014, methodology): “The limitation here is that the set of micro data on wealth over two generations that has been collected in French historical archives is more complete for Paris than for the rest of France (see Piketty et al., 2006, 2013).”
Estimating the Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth (2007, background): “France 1994 Estate tax returns; see Piketty et al (2004).”
Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth (2014, unknown): “The postwar era was quieter with regard to changes in the wealth concentration, although its decline continued most likely in relation to the increase of progressive taxation (Piketty et al., 2006).”
WEALTH INEQUALITY: DATA AND MODELS (2005, unknown): “Some of these trends have also been observed in other countries [see Davies and Shorrocks (2000), Piketty et al. (2006), and Saez (2006)].”