Kopczuk: What do we know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.? (2015)
The Point: The data we have on wealth inequality is far less reliable than the data we have on income and wages. In this paper, Kopczuk...
Piketty & Saez: Income Inequality in the U.S. 1913-1998 (2003)
The Point: Nearly half a century later, this paper responds to Simon Kuznets' findings. Saez and Piketty find that over the course of the...
