Personal height often serves as a proxy for economic progress. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of average height and height dispersion in Poland based on full administrative data on personal height (n=36,393,246). In the cohorts born between 1920 and 1996 average height of men...

In this paper, I estimate income inequality in Warsaw in the early XIX century. The data source is the 1833 tax census. I compare the income of Jews and Christians and investigate the spatial dimension of income inequality in the city. In 1833, income inequality in Warsaw was very high by modern...

In this paper, we analyse intergenerational educational mobility in Poland since 1920. In that period, Poland regained independence, experienced a massive loss of life in World War Two, changed borders, transited to state socialism after 1945, and finally in 1989 transited to democracy and free...

In 1923 Poland introduced an extraordinary wealth tax. We use internal statistics of the Ministry of Treasury to estimate wealth inequality in interwar Poland. This data source has not been used previously by researchers. There are no estimates of wealth inequality in interwar Poland available...