Dray, Sacha; Landais, Camille; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
household wealth in the US since the early 1800s. The US experienced extraordinary wealth accumulation after the Civil war and …We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected historical property tax …, and financial), making it one of the first "wealth taxes." Drawing on many historical records, we construct long …