The literature on wealth inequality is expanding very fast. Wealth is usually more concentrated than income. However, traditional measures of wealth inequality are based only on private wealth, and thus exclude public pension entitlements. In this chapter, the literature on the impact of public...

This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...

We study how the problem of the ‘missing rich', the under-representation of the wealthiest in household surveys, affects wealth inequality estimates for the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The survey data from the second wave of the Household Finance and...

In 1923 Poland introduced an extraordinary wealth tax. We use internal statistics of the Ministry of Treasury to estimate wealth inequality in interwar Poland. This data source has not been used previously by researchers. There are no estimates of wealth inequality in interwar Poland available...

Personal height often serves as a proxy for economic progress. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of average height and height dispersion in Poland based on full administrative data on personal height (n=36,393,246). In the cohorts born between 1920 and 1996 average height of men...

The aging of society increases the importance of public pension systems. This study evaluates the influence of public pension entitlements on wealth inequality. Novel data source - the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey – is used to compare the impact of the public pension...

In this paper, we compare income inequality in Warsaw in 1833, 1925, and 2017. The first estimate is based on tax census, the second is based on the social table, and the third comes from Statistic Poland. In 1833 income inequality in Warsaw was very high. Gini index stood at 0.57, the share of...

In this paper, we use administrative tabulations from occupation-based income tax to estimate income inequality in the Duchy of Warsaw. Firstly we estimate income inequality in the Department of Kalisz, then take advantage of the decomposability of the Theil index and estimate national-level...

In this paper, I estimate income inequality in Warsaw in the early XIX century. The data source is the 1833 tax census. I compare the income of Jews and Christians and investigate the spatial dimension of income inequality in the city. In 1833, income inequality in Warsaw was very high by modern...