This chapter reviews the long-run developments in the distribution of personal income and
wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer …

Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

Our objective is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic
development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which …

¿ La desi gual dad ha estado siempre con nosotros? Nuestros parientes no humanos más
próximos en la actualidad, los grandes simios africanos—gorilas, chimpancés y bonobos …

This exercise reproduces and assesses the historical time series on the top shares of the
wealth distribution for the United States presented by Thomas Piketty in Capital in the …

In one of the greatest extensions of property rights in human history, common law countries
began giving rights to married women in the 1850s. Before this “women's liberation,” the …

We offer new evidence on the dynamics of wealth holding in the United States over the Civil
War decade based on a hand-linked random sample of wealth holders drawn from the 1860 …

How does women's empowerment affect fertility and children's education? In a dramatic
revolution, US states gave economic rights to married women between 1850-1920. Prior to …

Abstract The US Civil War destroyed a substantial fraction of southern wealth and
emancipation transferred human capital to the formerly enslaved. The prevailing view of …

Eugenius Aristides Nisbet played a critical role in Georgia's secession from the United
States. Elected as a delegate to Georgia's 1861 secession convention, Nisbet introduced a …