Top Wealth Shares in the United States
Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data (with E. Saez):
- Published paper, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131(2): 519-578
- Data appendix (.pdf, 385 p.), October 2015
- Summary for the broader public, published by WCEG
- NBER working paper: October 2014 paper and data
Data:
- Main data: tables and figures included in the paper (.xlsx)
- Complete data: main+ appendix tables and figures (.zip)
Replication files:
- Individual income tax public use sample: see NBER
- Foundation tax returns: see IRS Statistics of Income
- Matched estates-income tax returns 1974-1977: see NBER
- Survey of Consumer Finances: see Federal Reserve Board
- Stata programs to replicate all post-1962 distributional results