Data and Code for: "The Origins of Enduring Economic Inequality"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Mattia Fochesato, Bocconi University; Samuel Bowles, Santa Fe Institute

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Project Citation: 

Fochesato, Mattia , and Bowles, Samuel. Data and Code for: “The Origins of Enduring Economic Inequality.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-11-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/E198571V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This repository contains the data and code for replicating the main results in the paper "The origins of enduring economic inequality".

Scope of Project

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      D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
      D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
      E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
      N53 Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: Europe: Pre-1913
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Thailand, Western Eurasia
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2016 – 2023
Universe:  View help for Universe Housing units in ancient settlements (5000 BCE -600 CE)
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data

Methodology

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  • Bagnall, R.S., 1992. “Landholding in Late Roman Egypt: The Distribution of Wealth”. Journal of Roman Studies 82, pp. 128–149. https://doi.org/10.2307/301288 
  • Basri, P. and D. Lawrence, 2020. “Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Near East: A Preliminary Assessment Using Gini Coefficients and Household Size”. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30:4, pp. 689–704. https:/doi.org/10.1017/S0959774320000177
  • Bowman, A.K. and A. Wilson, 2009. Quantifying the Roman economy: methods and problems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; Samuel Bowles; Tom Hertz; Adrian Bell; Jan Beise; Greg Clark; Ila Fazzio; Michael Gurven; Kim Hill; Paul L. Hooper; William Irons; Hillard Kaplan; Donna Leonetti; Bobbi Low; Frank Marlowe; Richard Mcelreath; Suresh Naidu; David Nolin; Patrizio Piraino; Rob Quinlan; Eric Schniter; Rebecca Sear; Mary Shenk; Eric Alden Smith; Christopher Von Rueden and Polly Wiessner. 2009. "Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies." Science, 326: 5953, 682. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1178336 
  • Davies, J.B, Susanna Sandstrom, S., Shorrocks, S., and E. N. Wolff, 2007. “The World Distribution of Household Wealth”. Center for Global International and Regional Studies. UC Santa Cruz.https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jv048hx#main
  • Duncan-Jones, Richard, 1990. Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy. Cambridge University Press.
  • Fochesato, M., A. Bogaard, and S. Bowles, 2019. “Comparing Ancient inequalities: the Challenge of Comparability, Bias, and Precision”. Antiquity, 93, pp. 853–869. https:/doi.org/10.1017/S1380203824000011 
  • Fochesato, Mattia; Charles Higham; Amy Bogaard and Cristina Cobo Castillo. 2021. "Changing social inequality from first farmers to early states in southeast asia." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 118(47). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113598118 
  • Soffer, O. 1985. The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain. Orlando: Academic.
  • Squitieri, A. and M. Altaweel, 2022. “Empires and the acceleration of wealth inequality in the pre- Islamic Near East: an archaeological approach”. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14.190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01659-3 
  • Stephan, Robert Perry, 2013. “House size and economic growth: regional trajectories in the Roman world”. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10326434
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Ancient settlements

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