Income Inequality in the United States in the Late 1860s

I utilize data from the Civil War income tax to calculate the income shares of the top 1 and 0.1 percent of the population in the United States in the late 1860s-extending Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez's series back in time. As we will see, income inequality during this period represents a low comparable to the late 1970s

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic inequality · Economics · Income distribution · Inequality · Population · Sociology · Demography · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics

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