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
• Main data: tables and figures included in the paper (.xlsx)
• Replication archive: main + appendix tables and figures, and Stata programs (.zip)

Current series:

• Updated series are regularly published as part of US Distributional National Accounts (Tables II-E)
• Series are available on WID.world

Raw sources:

• 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