Research on elites experienced a resurgence in sociology over a decade ago, but this work
was largely gender neutral. Recently, a body of work on elite women and gender dynamics …

This article combines tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of
national income in the United States since 1913. Our distributional national accounts …

The past forty years have seen a rapid rise in top income inequality in the United States.
While there is a large number of existing theories of the Pareto tail of the long‐run income …

Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital,
and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor …

We use a massive, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze
the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that one …

Top income inequality rose sharply in the United States over the last 40 years but increased
only slightly in France and Japan. Why? We explore a model in which heterogeneous …

Households face large income uncertainty that varies substantially over the business cycle.
We examine the macroeconomic consequences of these variations in a model with …

Like past editions, this ninth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the …

This paper assesses the importance of heterogeneity in household portfolios for the
transmission of monetary policy in a New Keynesian business cycle model with uninsurable …

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open‐access, cross‐country
database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and …