This paper studies the interaction between the long-term dynamics of aggregate household
wealth and the wealth distribution in Europe and the United States. We do so by building the …

There has been an increase in economic inequality in India over the past few decades, with
the rich-poor gaps among the largest of several peer economies. Household surveys show …

This note provides novel estimates of wealth distribution in Brazil from 2006 to 2021,
combining administrative and survey data. The estimations indicate that the wealthiest 1% of …

This paper discusses estimates of the distribution of national income and wealth produced
by the World Inequality Lab in its World Inequality Report 2022. The methodology combines …

Research on global inequality of income and wealth is surveyed, with particular attention to
work over the last two decades. Global income inequality rose gradually from 1950 to 1980 …

Over the last 70 years, many advanced countries have experienced growing real house
prices and an increasing housing wealth-to-income ratio. To explain these long-run patterns …