Income growth in the US, 1980-2014
Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States
(with T. Piketty and E. Saez):
- Published paper, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (2): 553-609. Online appendix, Presentation slides
- Main data: tables and figures included in the paper (.xlsx)
Current annual series, micro-files and code (February 2022):
- Tables I: macroeconomic series (.xlsx)
- Tables II: distributional series (.xlsx)
- Series are available on WID.world
- Distributional national accounts micro-files (.dta). Codebook (.pdf).
- Stata programs to construct distributional national accounts micro-files
- Log of updates since publication of the paper (.pdf)
Real-time quarterly and monthly series are available on realtimeinequality.org
Archived annual series, micro-files and code:
- September 2020 vintage
- October 2019 vintage
- November 2017 vintage (published paper archive)