Team

The World Inequality Lab is composed of about forty people (co-directors, coordinators, research fellows, research assistants, staff). It is based primarily at the Paris School of Economics and the University of Berkeley, California. The World Inequality Lab works in close coordination with more than 200 researchers – the WID Fellows – based in institutions around the world. All interested institutions and researchers are welcome to join our community.

CO-DIRECTORS AND COORDINATORS

Facundo Alvaredo
Paris School of Economics, Oxford University and Conicet
Scientific Co-director
Facundo Alvaredo
Paris School of Economics, Oxford University and Conicet
Scientific Co-director
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“Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality based on the Distribution of Estates”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2025/02
“Inequality Bands: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/08
“The Inequality (or the Growth) we Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/07
“Income Inequality Series for Dominican Republic”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2022/01
“The concentration of personal wealth in Italy, 1995-2016”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/14
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
Data files to “Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/14
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2017, and revision for 2015 and 2016” WID.world Technical Note 2019/03
“New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2015 and 2016, and revision for 2000 to 2014;” WID.world Technical Note 2019/02
Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?, forthcoming Review of Income and Wealth
New Zealand: Estimates of top shares of fiscal income for 2014, and revision for 2013 and 2012. WID.world Technical Note 2017/1.
UK estimates of top income shares 2013-2014 and 2014-2015: Note on Methods; WID.world Technical Note 2017/2
Data files to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
“Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/15
Appendix to “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?” WID.world Working Paper N°2017/16
“Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century.”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/2
“Income concentration in British India, 1885-1946”, Journal of Development Economics, 127, pp. 459-469, 2017
“The elephant curve of global inequality and growth”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/20
“Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
World Inequality Report 2018
Data Files to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, 2017
Presentation Slides to “Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2017/1
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world”, WID.world Working Paper, 2016/2
“France Preliminary Estimates of Top Income Shares 2006-2012: Note on Methods”, WID.world Technical Note, 2015/5
“New Zealand: Estimates of Top Shares for 2011/2012, and Revision for 2010/2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/3
“Spain: Estimates of Top Income Shares 2011-2012, and Revision for 2001-2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/4
“New Zealand: Estimates of Top Shares for 2010/2011, and Revision for 1999/2000-2009/2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/2
“Update and Extension of South Africa Estimates of Top Shares up to 2011”, WID.world Technical Note, 2013/6
“The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 3-20, 2013
“High incomes and personal taxation in a development economy. Colombia 1993-2010,” CEQ working paper 12, 2013
“Update and Extension of South Africa Estimates of Top Shares up to 2009”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/4
“Japan Estimates of Top Income Shares: Update up to 2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2012/7
Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005. Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
The Rich in Argentina over the Twentieth Century, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa 1903-2007”, CEPR Discussion Paper 8155, 2010
Top Incomes in Italy 1974-2004, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective, Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, OUP, 2010
“Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2005”, Explorations in Economic History, 2009
“Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009
Marie Andreescu
ENS Paris
Eastern Europe & Russia Coordinator
Marie Andreescu
ENS Paris
Eastern Europe & Russia Coordinator
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“Regional DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2025/05
“Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2025/25
“Global Labour Hours in Paid and Unpaid Work: Inequality, Productivity and Structural Transformation, 1800-2100”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2025/08
“2024 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2024/05
“2023 DINA Update for Europe”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2023/07
Luis Bauluz
CUNEF Universidad
Wealth aggregates Coordinator
Luis Bauluz
CUNEF Universidad
Wealth aggregates Coordinator
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“Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2025/25
“WID Income and Wealth Distributional Series Updated and Extended Coverage, 1800-2024”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note, 2025/10
“Global wealth inequality on WID.world: estimates and imputations”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2025/01
“Global Wealth Accumulation and Ownership Patterns, 1800-2025”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2025/22
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world: Methodology”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2024/14
“The Wealth of Generations”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/04
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2023/10
“Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2023/14
“The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut”, World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2022/06
“Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/13
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2021/01
“Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020”, World Inequality Lab WP 2021/01
Data Files to “Distributional National Accounts Guidelines 2020 : Concepts and Methods used in the World Inequality Database”
“2020 Wealth Aggregate series”, World Inequality Lab Technical Note 2020/14
“Global Land Inequality”, World Inequality Lab WP 2020/10
“Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines 2020 : Methods and concepts used in the World Inequality Database”
“Wealth in Spain, 1900-2014: A Country of Two Lands”, WID.world Working Paper 2018/5
“Revised national income and wealth series: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/23
“Spain: Estimates of Top Income Shares 2011-2012, and Revision for 2001-2010”, WID.world Technical Note, 2014/4