Distributional National Accounts: Context, Findings, Limitations, and Challenges

Comptabilité Distributionnelle: Contexte, Résultats, Limites et Enjeux

Bertrand Garbinti and Jonathan Goupille-Lebret ()
Additional contact information
Jonathan Goupille-Lebret: CERGIC - Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon, CEPR - Center for Economic Policy Research

Working Papers from HAL

Abstract: Distributional National Accounts (DINA) result from a reconciliation exercise of tax data, household surveys, and national accounts in order to construct income and wealth series that are fully consistent with the macroeconomic aggregates of the national accounts. This article offers a perspective on this tool. Rather than focusing on methodology and results, the aim is to take a step back from this new statistical object in order to situate DINA within the broader academic movement on long-run inequality, present some of the key findings that emerge from it, and discuss the limitations and future avenue of research of this approach. Three questions guide our analysis: Do DINA represent a methodological break? Are these new measures open to improvement? What new avenues do they offer for research and statistical production?

Date: 2025-12-20
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-05427648v1
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-05427648v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-05427648

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().