Income Inequality in the United States in the Late 1860s

Mark Stelzner

doi:10.1017/S0022050715001096

Income Inequality in the United States in the Late 1860s

Mark Stelzner

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	889-900
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Economic History
Volume	75
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050715001096
Publication status	Published - Aug 27 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Economics and Econometrics

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