Replication data for: Women, Wealth, and Mobility

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lena Edlund; Wojciech Kopczuk

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Edlund, Lena, and Kopczuk, Wojciech. Replication data for: Women, Wealth, and Mobility. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113281V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Using estate tax returns data, we observe that the share of women among the very wealthy in the United States peaked in the late 1960s at nearly one-half and then declined to one-third. We argue that this pattern reflects changes in the importance of dynastic wealth, with the share of women proxying for inherited wealth. If so, wealth mobility decreased until the 1970s and rose thereafter. Such an interpretation is consistent with technological change driving longterm trends in mobility and inequality, as well as the recent divergence between top wealth and top income shares documented elsewhere. (JEL D31, J16, J62, O33)

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      D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J62 Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
      O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes


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