Was Rising Inequality behind Falling Absolute Mobility? Reassessing Chetty et al. (2017)

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Was Rising Inequality behind Falling Absolute Mobility? Reassessing Chetty et al. (2017)

1 Dec 2022

Late 2016 may have marked the high-water mark for advocates of the view that economic inequality is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The team of Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman released the first-ever estimates attempting to allocate national income across the entire population.
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Authors

Scott Winship

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United States of America