Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data

By Emmanuel Saez, G. Zucman. 2016

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Saving and Wealth Inequality (2017, positive): “While there is agreement that the share held by the richest few is high, the extent to which it has changed over time (and why) is still subject to debate (Piketty (2014), Saez and Zucman (2014), Bricker et al. (2015), and Kopczuk (2014)).”
Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949–2016 (2018, positive): “In the estimates of Saez and Zucman (2016), about 90% of the total wealth outside the top 10% has to be imputed.”
Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world (2017, methodology): “4 We refer to the country-specific paper for detailed discussions; see Saez and Zucman, 2016; Alvaredo, Atkinson and Morelli, 2016 a,b; Garbinti, Goupille and Piketty 2016; Piketty, Yang and Zucman, 2016.”
Wealth Distribution and Social Mobility in the US: A Quantitative Approach (2015, background): “, for the return estimates by Case and Shiller (1989) and Flavin and Yamashita (2002) on the housing market, by Campbell and Lettau (1999) and Campbell et al.”
Socio-cognitive traits and entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic institutions (2019, background): “9 Financial capital is measured as household income which is strongly correlated with wealth (Bricker et al., 2016; Saez & Zucman, 2016).”
Tax Cuts for Whom? Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth and Employment (2019, positive): “Saez and Zucman (2016) also show that total savings among the bottom 90 percent is roughly zero and has been flat since the 1980s.”
The evolution of wealth inequality over half a century: The role of taxes, transfers and technology (2016, methodology): “The quantitative results are, therefore, compatible with Saez and Zucman (2014), who argue that falling savings rates for households outside the top income groups were a major contributor to the rise in wealth concentration in the U.S.”
A simpler theory of optimal capital taxation (2017, positive): “Bridging the gap between economic theory and the policy debate seems especially important in the current context with growing income and wealth inequality, and where a large fraction of top incomes comes from capital income (Saez and Zucman, 2016; Piketty et al., 2016).”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “…from the entrance of women en masse into labor markets to the emergence of China and India to the rise of the new social media, economic inequality is at near historic levels, and social class structures have remained remarkably fixed for centuries (Hacker & Pierson, 2010; Saez & Zucman, 2016).”
2013 Update on the U.S. Earnings, Income, and Wealth Distributional Facts: A View from Macroeconomics (2016, methodology): “The top 1 percent share has (24)Recently, Saez and Zucman (2014) propose a capitalization method to infer wealth positions from tax returns.”