World Inequality Lab Working Papers

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2026: Global Inequality by 2050: The Role of Redistribution and Climate Change

Philipp Bothe, Lucas Chancel, Amory Gethin and Cornelia Mohren

2026: Potential sources of income inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries

Anne-Sophie Robilliard

2025: Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin

2025: Public Acceptance of International Redistribution in High-Income Countries

Adrien Fabre

2025: Global inequalities in ownership-based carbon footprints over 2010-2022

Lucas Chancel and Yannic Rehm

2025: Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa

Denis Cogneau and Zhexun Mo

2025: Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025

Marie Andreescu, Manuel Arias-Osorio, Luis Bauluz, Nitin Bharti, Philipp Bothe, Pierre Brassac, Lucas Chancel, Mauricio de Rosa, Jonas Dietrich, Dima Hariri, Matthew Fisher-Post, Ignacio Flores, Valentina Gabrielli, Amory Gethin, Ricardo Gómez-Carrera, Sehyun Hong, Thanasak Jenmana, Romaine Loubes, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Zhexun Mo, Cornelia Mohren, Marc Morgan, Rowaida Moshrif, Stella Muti, Theresa Neef, Gastón Nievas, Moritz Odersky, Thomas Piketty, Anne-Sophie Robilliard, Emmanuel Saez, Alice Sodano, Anmol Somanchi, Li Yang, Gabriel Zucman and Álvaro Zuñiga-Cordero

2025: Capital and Labor Income Mobility

Marco Ranaldi, Joël Bühler and Roberto Iacono

2025: Racial Inequality in France

Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini and Ellora Derenoncourt

2025: Real estate wealth inequality and exposure to natural disasters

Thomas Bézy

2025: Global Wealth Accumulation and Ownership Patterns, 1800-2025

Luis Bauluz, Pierre Brassac, Jonas Dietrich, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Gaston Nievas, Moritz Odersky, Thomas Piketty, Alice Sodano and Anmol Somanchi

2025: Capital in the 21st Century, Ten Years Later

Thomas Piketty

2025: Billionaire Taxation and Wealth Redistribution: A Personal View

Thomas Piketty

2025: Is public ownership or privatisation better? Law, economic theories, and how data helps

Ewan Mcgaughey

2025: The recent compression of US wage inequality: tightness, turbulence, and power-biased policy

Adam Aboobaker and Peter Skott

2025: Human Capital, Unequal Opportunities and Productivity Convergence: A Global Historical Perspective, 1800-2100

Nitin Bharti, Amory Gethin, Thanasak Jenmana, Zhexun Mo, Thomas Piketty and Li Yang

2025: Some Considerations Relating to the Measurement and Mitigation of Inequality

S Subramanian

2025: Regional Wealth Inequality in Spain: Evidence from the Spain Wealth Atlas

Gustavo Marrero, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Juan Palomino and Dmitry Petrov

2025: Intergenerational Mobility in Spain: Geographic Analysis and Causal Neighborhood Effects

Javier Soria and Octavio Medina

2025: Unequal Exchange and North-South Relations: Evidence from Global Trade Flows and the World Balance of Payments 1800-2025

Gaston Nievas and Thomas Piketty

2025: Measuring Inflation Inequality in India

Rohan Bansal and Prachi Bansal

2025: Global Labour Hours in Paid and Unpaid Work: Inequality, Productivity and Structural t Transformation, 1800-2100

Marie Andreescu, Romaine Loubes, Thomas Piketty and Anne-Sophie Robilliard

2025: Long-term Land Inequality and Post-Colonial Land Reform in Egypt (1896-2020)

Rowaida Moshrif

2025: Measuring Top Incomes Using Tax Data: A Case Study from Malaysia

Muhammed Abdul Khalid and Zouhair Rosli

2025: Impact of British Colonial Gender Reform on Early Female Marriages and Gender Gap in Education: Evidence from Child Marriage Abolition Act, 1929

Sutanuka Roy and Eddy Tam

2025: From Housing Gains to Pension Losses: New Methods to Reveal Wealth Inequality Dynamics in Chile

Bastián Castro Nofal, Ignacio Flores and Pablo Cubillos

2025: Inequality and Agricultural Structural Change: Evidence from Macro and Microdata, 1950-Present

Matthew Fisher-Post

2025: Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality based on the Distribution of Estates

Facundo Alvaredo, Yonatan Berman and Salvatore Morelli

2025: Wealth Inequality, Asset Price Bubbles and Financial Crises

Edison Jakurti

2024: Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa

Denis Cogneau and Zhexun Mo

2024: Climate Change and Wealth Inequality: A Literature Review and Numerical Insights

Lucas Chancel, Cornelia Mohren, Philipp Bothe and Gregor Semieniuk

2024: Intergenerational Mobility in Hong Kong, 1976-2016

Li Yang, Junpeng Zhang and Zhejin Zhao

2024: The Making of China and India in the 21st Century: Long-Run Human Capital Accumulation from 1900 to 2020

Nitin Kumar Bharti and Li Yang

2024: Tackling the regressivity of the Italian tax system: An optimal taxation framework with heterogeneous returns to capital

Matteo Dalle Luche, Demetrio Guzzardi, Elisa Palagi, Andrea Roventini and Alessandro Santoro

2024: Lost in Aggregation: The Local Environmental and Welfare Effects of Large Industrial Shutdowns

Philipp Bothe

2024: Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

Guido Alfani and Sergio Sardone

2024: Leaving legacies and liabilities: The distribution of wealth at death

Franziska Disslbacher and Severin Rapp

2024: A New Geography of Inequality: Top incomes in Italian Regions and Inner Areas

Demetrio Guzzardi and Salvatore Morelli

2024: Le début de la fin de la tripartition ? Élections européennes et inégalités sociales en France, 1994-2024

Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty

2024: Tax Design, Information, and Elasticities: Evidence From the French Wealth Tax

Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, Mathilde Munoz, Stefanie Stantcheva and Gabriel Zucman

2024: Inequality and Market Concentration: New Evidence from Australia

Lachlan Hotchin and Andrew Leigh

2024: Do People Distinguish Income from Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the Netherlands

Thomas Douenne, Oda Sund and Joël van der Weele

2024: Has the US exorbitant privilege become a rich world privilege? Rates of return and foreign assets from a global perspective, 1970-2022

Gastón Nievas and Alice Sodano

2024: Asset-Price Redistribution

Andreas Fagereng, Matthieu Gomez, Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Martin Holm, Benjamin Moll and Gisle Natvik

2024: Income Inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the Twentieth Century

Stefan Nikolić, Filip Novokmet and Piotr Paweł Larysz

2024: Top Earners and the Great Compression: New Estimates Based on Tax Records

Miguel Artola Blanco and Victor Manuel Gomez-Blanco

2024: Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj

Nitin Kumar Bharti, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty and Anmol Somanchi

2024: Inequality bands: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in latin america

Facundo Alvaredo, François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira and Nora Lustig

2024: Sociodemographic inequalities and political cleavages

Andrew Lonsdale

2024: Inequality in History: A long-Run View

Guido Alfani

2024: The Long Way to Gender Equality: Gender Pay Differences in Germany, 1871-2021

Theresa Neef

2024: The Wealth of Generations

Luis Bauluz and Timothy Meyer

2024: Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts

Sehyun Hong, Nak-Nyeon Kim, Zhexun Mo and Li Yang

2024: Trends and Inequality in Lifetime Earnings in France

Bertrand Garbinti, Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa, Vladimir Pecheu and Frédérique Savignac