Top Wealth Shares in the United States: 1916-2000: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns

By Emmanuel Saez, W. Kopczuk. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data (2016, unknown): “Estimates based on estate tax returns, by contrast, find that US wealth inequality is low and stable, with a top 1% share of barely 20% (Kopczuk and Saez, 2004), less than in countries like Denmark, Finland, and France (Roine and Waldenström, 2015).”
WEALTH INEQUALITY: A SURVEY (2015, unknown): “…mortality multipliers, where one treats those dying in a given year as a weighted sample of the current population the weights being determined by estimates of the probability of death for various groups in the population (Atkinson and Harrison 1978, Chapter 3; Kopczuk and Saez 2004; Lampman 1962).”
On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1820–2050 (2011, unknown): “10 See Kopczuk and Saez (2004) for the U.S., Piketty, Postel-Vinay and Rosenthal (2006) for France, and Roine and Waldenstrom (2009) for Sweden.”
Inequality, Leverage and Crises: The Case of Endogenous Default (2013, unknown): “However, a recent study by Kopczuk, Saez and Song (2010)15, using a novel dataset from the Social Security 13Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Household Debt and Credit Reports. 14Source: Reality Trac for foreclosure rates, and Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council for loan-to-i”
Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth (2014, unknown): “This renewed interest in the long run and the reevaluation of historical sources has also led to new studies on the historical trends in the wealth distribution (e.g., Kopczuk and Saez, 2004; Dell, Piketty and Saez, 2005; Piketty, Postel-Vinay and Rosenthal, 2006.”
Robust stochastic dominance: A semi-parametric approach (2007, unknown): “This is of particular interest in view of a burgeoning recent literature that has focused on empirical issues concerning the upper tail of both income distributions and wealth distributions [1, 19, 22, 23].”