Lucas Chancel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1414440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucas Chancel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucas |
| FAMILY NAME | Chancel |
| SIGNATURE | CHANCEL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Paris School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8803-3186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Global inequalities in ownership-based carbon footprints
Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922–2023
Integrating national income accounts, wealth aggregates, tax data, rich lists, and surveys on income, consumption, and wealth in a consistent framework, long-run and short-run trends of income and wealth inequality in India are analyzed. Inequality declined post-independence, began rising in the early 1980s, and has skyrocketed since the early 2000s. Income and wealth inequality trends closely track each other over the entire period, with the ris…
Climate change and the global distribution of wealth
The Carbon Footprint of Capital
The potential of wealth taxation to address the triple climate inequality crisis
World Inequality Report 2022
World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pioneering data about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States
This article combines all available data to produce pretax and post-tax income inequality series in 26 European countries from 1980 to 2017. Our estimates are consistent with macroeconomic growth and comparable with US distributional national accounts. Inequality grew in nearly all European countries, but much less than in the US. Contrary to a widespread view, we demonstrate that Europe’s lower inequality levels cannot be explained by more equal…
Global carbon inequality over 1990–2019
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019
Impôt de solidarité
Face à la recrudescence des inégalités en France ces trente dernières années, l'impôt semble s'imposer comme un puissant outil redistributif. Intelligemment aiguillé, il est à même d'incarner une économie de la solidarité. Entretien avec l'économiste Lucas Chancel
Global Income Inequality, 1820–2020
In this paper, we mobilize newly available historical series from the World Inequality Database to construct world income distribution estimates from 1820 to 2020. We find that the level of global income inequality has always been very large, reflecting the persistence of a highly hierarchical world economic system. Global inequality increased between 1820 and 1910, in the context of the rise of Western dominance and colonial empires, and then st…
Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts
Alvaredo Facundo, Chancel Lucas, Piketty Thomas, Saez Emmanuel, Zucman Gabriel. Vers un système de comptes nationaux distributifs : méthodes et estimations des inégalités mondiales avec les données WID.world / Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Global Inequality Estimates from WID.world . In: Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, n°517-519, 2020. Numéro spécial : Au-delà et autour du PIB : questions à …
La réponse, c'est l'Europe
Indian Income Inequality, 1922‐2015
We combine household surveys and national accounts, as well as recently released tax data to track the dynamics of Indian income inequality from 1922 to 2015. According to our benchmark estimates, the top 1 percent of earners captured less than 21 percent of total income in the late 1930s, before dropping to 6 percent in the early 1980s and rising to 22 percent in the recent period. Our results appear to be robust to a range of alternative assump…
Global Inequality Dynamics
This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world), with particular emphasis on the contrast between the trends observed in the United States, China, France, and the United Kingdom. We observe rising top income and wealth shares in nearly all countries in recent decades. But the magnitude of the increase varies substantially, thereby suggesting that different country-specific polic…
Reducing Inequalities within Countries
Income and wealth inequality are rising in most countries around the world today. Recognising that this challenge has become a universal issue, the United Nations agreed in 2015 to seventeen Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG s), as part of a global agenda to transform society. Specifically, SDG Target 10 commits countries to ‘reduce inequalities within and among countries’. To what extent SDG s and in particular SDG target 10 can help nations r…
Émissions de CO2
Are younger generations higher carbon emitters than their elders
Are younger generations higher carbon emitters than their elders
Émissions de CO2
Global Inequality Dynamics
This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world), with particular emphasis on the contrast between the trends observed in the United States, China, France, and the United Kingdom. We observe rising top income and wealth shares in nearly all countries in recent decades. But the magnitude of the increase varies substantially, thereby suggesting that different country-specific polic…
Reducing Inequalities within Countries
Income and wealth inequality are rising in most countries around the world today. Recognising that this challenge has become a universal issue, the United Nations agreed in 2015 to seventeen Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG s), as part of a global agenda to transform society. Specifically, SDG Target 10 commits countries to ‘reduce inequalities within and among countries’. To what extent SDG s and in particular SDG target 10 can help nations r…
La réponse, c'est l'Europe
Indian Income Inequality, 1922‐2015
We combine household surveys and national accounts, as well as recently released tax data to track the dynamics of Indian income inequality from 1922 to 2015. According to our benchmark estimates, the top 1 percent of earners captured less than 21 percent of total income in the late 1930s, before dropping to 6 percent in the early 1980s and rising to 22 percent in the recent period. Our results appear to be robust to a range of alternative assump…
Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts
Alvaredo Facundo, Chancel Lucas, Piketty Thomas, Saez Emmanuel, Zucman Gabriel. Vers un système de comptes nationaux distributifs : méthodes et estimations des inégalités mondiales avec les données WID.world / Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Global Inequality Estimates from WID.world . In: Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, n°517-519, 2020. Numéro spécial : Au-delà et autour du PIB : questions à …
Global Income Inequality, 1820–2020
In this paper, we mobilize newly available historical series from the World Inequality Database to construct world income distribution estimates from 1820 to 2020. We find that the level of global income inequality has always been very large, reflecting the persistence of a highly hierarchical world economic system. Global inequality increased between 1820 and 1910, in the context of the rise of Western dominance and colonial empires, and then st…
World Inequality Report 2022
World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pioneering data about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States
This article combines all available data to produce pretax and post-tax income inequality series in 26 European countries from 1980 to 2017. Our estimates are consistent with macroeconomic growth and comparable with US distributional national accounts. Inequality grew in nearly all European countries, but much less than in the US. Contrary to a widespread view, we demonstrate that Europe’s lower inequality levels cannot be explained by more equal…
Global carbon inequality over 1990–2019
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019
Impôt de solidarité
Face à la recrudescence des inégalités en France ces trente dernières années, l'impôt semble s'imposer comme un puissant outil redistributif. Intelligemment aiguillé, il est à même d'incarner une économie de la solidarité. Entretien avec l'économiste Lucas Chancel
The potential of wealth taxation to address the triple climate inequality crisis
Climate change and the global distribution of wealth
The Carbon Footprint of Capital
Global inequalities in ownership-based carbon footprints
Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922–2023
Integrating national income accounts, wealth aggregates, tax data, rich lists, and surveys on income, consumption, and wealth in a consistent framework, long-run and short-run trends of income and wealth inequality in India are analyzed. Inequality declined post-independence, began rising in the early 1980s, and has skyrocketed since the early 2000s. Income and wealth inequality trends closely track each other over the entire period, with the ris…
Inequality (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Economic inequality (7 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (6 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works)