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Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2010

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

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Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-Run Distribution of Wealth

Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013

these episodes to examine the idea that the lower tail of the wealth distribution reflects in part a wealth-based poverty …

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Trends in U.S. Spatial Inequality : Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty

Gaubert, Cecile; Kline, Patrick; Vergara, Damian; … - 2022

the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades …

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Poverty and Prosperity : a Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860

Steckel, Richard H. - 2010

This paper depicts and analyzes the wealth distribution and wealth mobility in a national sample of nearly 1,600 households matched in the 1850 and 1860 manuscript schedules of the census. Gini coefficients, a transition matrix, the Shorrocks measure, and a regression model of wealth...

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Measuring Ancient Inequality

Milanović, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, … - 2022

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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Tax Evasion and Inequality

Alstadsæter, Annette - 2017

This paper attempts to estimate the size and distribution of tax evasion in rich countries. We combine random audits—the key source used to study tax evasion so far—with new micro-data leaked from large offshore financial institutions—HSBC Switzerland (“Swiss leaks”) and Mossack...

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Income and Wealth Distribution in Macroeconomics : A Continuous-Time Approach

Achdou, Yves - 2017

We recast the Aiyagari-Bewley-Huggett model of income and wealth distribution in continuous time. This workhorse model – as well as heterogeneous agent models more generally – then boils down to a system of partial differential equations, a fact we take advantage of to make two types of...

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New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals : Part IV: Land and Credit

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2015

A significant amount of the increase in the wealth income ratio in recent decades is due to an increase in the value of land. We present a series of models that explain why land prices may have increased. These models help us understand the increase in both the wealth income ratio and wealth...

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New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals : Part Iii: Life Cycle Savings vs. Inherited Savings

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2015

This paper extends the standard life cycle model to a world in which there are also capitalists. We obtain simple formulae describing the equilibrium fraction of wealth held by life-cycle savers. Using these formulae, we ascertain the effects of tax policy or changes in the parameters of the...

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New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals : Part Ii: Equilibrium Wealth Distributions

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2015

This paper investigates the determination of the equilibrium distribution of income and wealth among individuals within a simple equilibrium growth model, where there is consistency between the movements of aggregate variables and the savings, bequest, and reproduction behavior of individuals....

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