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
• Comments on Smith-Zidar-Zwick (2020), revised May 2020.

Data:

• Main data: tables and figures included in the paper (.xlsx)
• Complete data: main+ appendix tables and figures (.zip)
• Updated estimates (post-2012) published as part of US Distributional National Accounts (Tables II-E)

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