Wealth Concentration in the U.S. After Augmenting the Upper Tail of the Survey of Consumer Finances. Bricker, J., Hansen, P., & Volz, A. H. 184:1–4.
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We augment SCF wealth data with a Pareto distribution and also by adding wealth of the Forbes 400 (who are excluded in SCF sampling). The wealth share of the top 1% typically increases by 1.5 percentage points under each correction.
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  author = {Bricker, Jesse and Hansen, Peter and Volz, Alice Henriques},
  date = {2019},
  journaltitle = {Economics Letters},
  volume = {184},
  pages = {1--4},
  issn = {0165-1765},
  doi = {10.1016/J.ECONLET.2019.108659},
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