The Journal of Economic Inequality - Journal of Economic Inequality: Free Access to Special Issue

Volume 20, Issue 1 (March 2022)

Special Issue: “Finding the Upper Tail”

Issue Editors:  Frank Cowell, Nora Lustig & Daniel Waldenström

The editors of Journal of Economic Inequality invite you to enjoy free access to this special issue of the journal. All articles are available without a subscription through the month of May.

Pareto models for top incomes and wealth  by Arthur Charpentier & Emmanuel Flachaire

Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach by Pedro Salas-Rojo & Juan Gabriel Rodríguez

The Stock Market and the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States by Edward N. Wolff

Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data by Nishant Yonzan, Branko Milanovic, Salvatore Morelli & Janet Gornick

Long-run trends in top income shares: The role of income and population growth by Carla Krolage, Andreas Peichl & Daniel Waldenström

The weight of the rich: improving surveys using tax data by Thomas Blanchet, Ignacio Flores & Marc Morgan

Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK by Stephen P. Jenkins

Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: micro problems with macro implications by Sofie. R. Waltl & Robin Chakraborty

Missing Top Income Recipients by Martin Ravallion

Declining inequality in Latin America? Robustness checks for Peru by Diego Winkelried & Bruno Escobar

The Use of Distributional National Accounts in Better Capturing the Top Tail of Distribution by Jorrit Zwijneburg

Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman

Book Reviews collected by Elena Bárcena-Martín