Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998

By Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The risk-reward nexus in the innovation-inequality relationship: who takes the risks? Who gets the rewards? (2013, background): “1% of the income distribution was $1,492,175 (Piketty and Saez, 2010).”
Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data (2009, methodology): “…can be attributed to differences in definitions, whereas comparisons between the CPS-Pre-TU series and the “Piketty-Saez” estimates reported by Piketty and Saez (2003, 2008) are informative about how much of the difference in estimates can be attributed to differences in the underlying data…”
The Dynamics of Inequality (2016, neutral): “The model with type dependence can replicate the rapid rise in income inequality observed in the United States.”
A Note on the Relationship Between Top Income Shares and the Gini Coefficient (2010, neutral): “Burkhauser et al. (2009) have tried to reconcile Piketty and Saez (2003) tax-based top income share series with top income shares from the United States internal CPS.”
Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas. NBER Working Paper No. 18068. (2012, neutral): “Figure 10 shows results as well when we use all college attendees and assign school types based on the institution in which each individual earned the most credits.(34) For UT-Austin and Texas A&M graduates, the results using attendees are similar to those using graduates.”
Taxing the Rich (2016, neutral): “In 2014, the top quintile and percentile of the U.S. income distribution, respectively, collected 36% and 20% of aggregate income (Piketty and Saez, 2003 updated in 2015).”
Rising Income Inequality: Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization? (2008, neutral): “Prominent contributions from the empirical side include Alesina and Perotti (1996), Perotti (1996), Barro (2000), Forbes (2000), Piketty (2003), Piketty and Saez (2003), Roine and Waldenström (2008), and Sylwester (2000). segments of the population have increased across all regions and income…”