This article provides an overview of wealth inequality in England from the late thirteenth to
the sixteenth century, based on a novel database of distributions of taxable household …

This article examines whether economic inequality intensified the adverse effects of harvest,
price, and income shocks during a famine. Using a parish‐level longitudinal dataset from the …

We propose three new estimators of the Weibull distribution parameters which lead to three
new plug-in estimators of quantiles. One of them is a modification of the maximum likelihood …

Despite some progress in reducing income inequality between countries over the last two
decades, there is evidence that income inequality is on the rise within nations. This article …

This paper studies the developments in the income taxes of Sweden, the United Kingdom,
and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. We present the evolution …

Originally proposed to measure income or wealth inequality (Gini, 1912, 1914), the Gini
concentration index has become one of the most common statistical indices employed for …

Abstract In 2016, over 40,000 pages of new research were printed across only 86 of the
hundreds of higher education specific journals (Tight, 2018). Perhaps that means this field of …

Abstract The Black Death and subsequent plague waves killed millions in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. Although these traumatic events unsettled social relations, economic …

This document presents the methodological approach used in two papers about historical
income taxes:“Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century”(Torregrosa …

This blog is based on the author's article which has been published in the Economic History
Review and is now available as open access at this link: https://onlinelibrary. wiley …