National Bureau of Economic Research3y
Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975-2004). We find that the upward trend in income inequality prior to 1993 ...
National Bureau of Economic Research4y
Trends in US Income and Wealth Inequality: Revising After the Revisionists
Recent studies argue that US inequality has increased less than previously thought, in particular due to a more modest rise of wealth and capital income at the top (Smith et al., 2019; Smith, Zidar ...
International Monetary Fund13y
Inequality over the Past Century
By the end of the century the hired hands—the top executives—shared with capital owners the highest part of the income distribution. In Western English-speaking countries, inequality declined ... In ...
cidrap.umn3y
Income inequality tied to more COVID-19 cases, deaths
A study yesterday in JAMA Network Open identifies an association between US county-level income inequality and higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death in summer 2020. The ecological cohort study, ...
U.S. News & World Report5y
Economic Inequality: What It Is and How It Impacts You
It's nearly impossible to read the news these days without running across mentions of economic inequality. So what is economic inequality, and how does it impact you? Here's what to know about ...