Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949– 2016. Kuhn, M., Schularick, M., & Steins, U. I. Journal of Political Economy, 128(9):3469–3519, July, 2020. ![Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949– 2016 [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Link Working paper Appendix Data archive doi abstract bibtex 3 downloads This paper introduces a new long-run data set based on archival data from historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances. Studying the joint distribution of household income and wealth, we expose the central importance of portfolio composition and asset prices for wealth dynamics in postwar America. Asset prices shift the wealth distribution because of systematic differences in household portfolios along the wealth distribution. Middle-class portfolios are dominated by housing, while rich households predominantly own business equity. Differential changes in equity and house prices shaped wealth dynamics in postwar America and decoupled the income and wealth distribution over extended periods.
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