Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data

Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

NBER Working Paper No. 20625
Issued in October 2014

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We thank Tony Atkinson, Mariacristina DeNardi, Matthieu Gomez, Barry W. Johnson, Maximilian Kasy, Lawrence Katz, Arthur Kennickell, Wojciech Kopczuk, Moritz Kuhn, Thomas Piketty, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, John Sabelhaus, Amir Sufi, Edward Wolff, and numerous seminar and conference participants for helpful discussions and comments. Juliana Londono-Velez provided outstanding research assistance. We acknowledge financial support from the Center for Equitable Growth at UC Berkeley, and the MacArthur foundation. A complete set of Appendix tables and figures supplementing this article is available online at http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez and http://gabriel-zucman.eu/uswealth The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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