Kuznets at -7000: is there a really long-term relationship between growth and inequality?

Timothy A. Kohler, Adam Green and Scott G. Ortman

No wp-2025-16, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We use archaeological data on house sizes to generate estimates for economic inequality and economic growth from near the beginning of the Holocene to about the first millennium AD. At worldwide scales these variables are positively related, but patterns are more divergent at regional levels. Cross-sectional regression shows that the formation of central-place hierarchies and development of landesque capital are important in generating both wealth and wealth inequality; development of farming is also important to the generation of wealth.

Keywords: Economic inequality; Economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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