van Zanden, Jan Luiten; Baten, Joerg; Foldvari, Peter; … - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2011
A new dataset for estimating the development of global inequality between 1820 and 2000 is presented, based on a large variety of sources and methods for estimating (gross household) income inequality. On this basis, and two sets of benchmarks for estimating between-country inequality (the...