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

Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin

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

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

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: 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, Émilien 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: Shortfall of Domestic Resources to Eradicate Extreme Poverty by 2030

Adrien Fabre

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

2023: Income inequality in the 21st century Poland

Pawel Bukowski, Pawel Chrostek, Filip Novokmet and Marek Skawiński

2023: Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform

Roberto Iacono and Bard Smedsvik

2023: To become or not to become French: Conscription, naturalization, and labor market integration

Yajna Govind and Louis Sirugue

2023: Intergenerational Income Mobility in France: A Comparative and Geographic Analysis

Gustave Kenedi and Louis Sirugue

2023: Income Inequality in Canada at the National and Subnational Levels 1982-2021

Silas Xuereb, Matthew Fisher-Post, Francois Delorme and Camille Lajoie

2023: The Carbon Footprint of Capital: Evidence from France, Germany and the US based on Distributional Environmental Accounts

Lucas Chancel and Yannic Rehm

2023: Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty

Amory Gethin

2023: Revisiting Global Poverty Reduction: Public Goods and the World Distribution of Income, 1980-2022

Amory Gethin

2023: Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics

Tom Raster

2023: Political Inequality

Julia Cagé

2023: Government Redistribution and Development Global Estimates of Tax and Transfer Progressivity 1980-2019

Matthew Fisher-Post and Amory Gethin

2023: To become or not to become French: Conscription, naturalization, and labor market integration

Yajna Govind and Louis Sirugue

2023: Not My Money to Touch: Experimental Evidence on Redistributive Preferences under Market Transition in China

Nora Chen, Yuchen Huang and Zhexun Mo

2023: Capital vs. Labour: the Effect of Income Sources on Attitudes Toward the Top 1 Percent

Oscar Barrera-Rodriguez and Emmanuel Chavez

2023: The Non-Meritocrats or Conformist Meritocrats? A Redistribution Experiment in China and France

Margot Belguise, Yuchen Huang and Zhexun Mo

2023: The Consequences of Inequality: Beliefs and Redistributive Preferences

Max Lobeck and Morten Støstad

2023: Like Father Like Son? Social Engineering and Intergenerational Mobility in Housing Consumption

Sumit Agarwal, Yi Fan, Wenlan Qian and Tien Foo Sing

2023: The Far-Right Donation Gap

Julia Cagé, Moritz Hengel and Yuchen Huang

2023: Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019

Luis Bauluz, Paweł Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Lee, Margarita Lopez Forero, Filip Novokmet, Sébastien Breau, Neil Lee, Clément Malgouyres, Moritz Schularick and Gregory Verdugo

2023: The Impact of Social Security Wealth on the Distribution of Wealth in the European Union

Marcin Wroński

2023: Income inequality in the Duchy of Warsaw (1810/11)

Marcin Wroński

2023: The full distribution of adult height in Poland: cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition

Marcin Wroński

2023: Financialization more than globalization! The contribution of global cities to inequalities

Olivier Godechot, Nils Neumann, Lasse Henriksen, Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, Naomi Kodama, Zoltán Lippényi, Silvia Melzer, Halil Sabanci, Max Thaning, Paula Apascaritei, Dustin Holt, Nina Bandelj, István Boza, Marta Elvira, Gergely Hajdu, Alena Křižkova, Andrew Penner, Andreja Poje, William Rainey, Mirna Safi, Matthew Soener and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

2023: Potential pension fund losses should not deter high-income countries from bold climate action

Gregor Semieniuk, Lucas Chancel, Eulalie Saïsset, Philip Holden, Jean-Francois Mercure and Neil Edwards

2023: International Attitudes Toward Global Policies

Adrien Fabre, Thomas Douenne and Linus Mattauch

2023: Is Charitable Giving Political? Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Return

Julia Cagé and Malka Guillot

2023: Trading Non-tradables: the Implications of Europes's Job Posting Policy

Mathilde Muñoz