• Does Adjusting for Family Size Eliminate the Partnership Benefit?

    In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall considers whether adjusting for family size eliminates economic benefits for families headed by couples compared to those headed by single people.

  • Couples with (Economic) Benefits

    In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall discusses how marriage and cohabitation — relative to being single — affect where men and women fall along the income distribution.

  • The Decline of Income in the Bottom Half of the United States

    In this blog post, Nishant Yonzan looks at three definitions of income and finds they all show significant drops in prosperity for the bottom 50 percent.

  • All the Ginis (ALG) Dataset

    This dataset, constructed by Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic, represents a compilation and adaptation of income or consumption Gini coefficients (calculated across households or household per capita; on gross or net basis) retrieved from nine sources. B. Milanovic. 2019.

  • The Chartbook of Economic Inequality

    A.B. Atkinson, J. Hasell, S. Morelli, and M. Roser. Institute for New Economic Thinking/Oxford. 2017.

  • Lakner-Milanovic World Panel Income Distribution

    This database contains a panel of country-deciles covering the twenty year period 1988-2008, expressed in common currency and prices (2005 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars derived from the 2005 International Comparison Project). B. Milanovic and C. Lakner. 2013.

  • World Income Distribution (WYD) Dataset 1988–2008

    Worldwide household survey data from approximately 120 countries, arranged mostly by income or consumption ventile. B. Milanovic et al. 2012.