Meetings & Events meeting, 23 September 2026. Read the automatic transcript with speaker identification — every speech, timestamped to the video.

In this paper, Edison Jakurti studies how people think inheritances should be taxed using a randomized factorial vignette experiment with 8,106 respondents from probability-based panel surveys across ...

TRIBUNE. Avant l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, fin septembre, dix économistes, parmi lesquels Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz et Gabriel Zucman expliquent, dans une tribune au «...

Would it be possible for every country to one day achieve a national income of about €5,000 per month per person, a level close to what is currently observed in the richest countries, while also ma…

In this paper , Simon Briole and Camille Salesse focus on the effect of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the pollutant responsible for the largest share of health and economic damages attributable to ...

Une étude du Laboratoire sur les inégalités mondiales suggère que la pollution de l’air peut expliquer jusqu’à 25 % de l’écart de réussite aux examens entre les élèves issus de milieux socio-économiqu...

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Disparities in income and wealth are growing. A scientific assessment process can give governments the information they need to tackle them.

The Carbon Content of Billionaire Wealth: Composition, Concentration, and Taxation The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an in...

Open letter signed by 40 academics including Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level

Politics of Dignity: How Status Inequality shaped Redistributive Politics in India Why do some marginalized groups prioritize representation over redistribution? Poulomi Chakrabarti explores how statu...

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The authors of the Global Justice Report explain how tackling inequality could unlock the resources needed to address climate breakdown while delivering shared prosperity within planetary boundaries.

Researchers have a responsibility to search for consensus on this crucial issue, both for future generations and the future of our planet.

Income Inequality and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Swedish Micro Data,1870–1970 The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed...

Editorial: The Global Justice Report offers a hopeful bargain: tax extreme wealth and replace consumer excess with social and economic security for all

Some will question its credibility – but the alternative future to the one imagined in the Global Justice Report is far more bleak

Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

Looking at domestic & economic labour together, women work more but earn 43% less than men, on average – much greater than usual estimates of the gender pay gap

The world’s richest countries receive sizeable net incomes from the rest of the world. The reason? The basic structure of the international monetary system

Wealth inequality determines who causes the climate crisis and who profits from it, so the low-carbon transition offers an opportunity to redistribute wealth

Incomes vary greatly around the world. But education spending varies even more: our best tool for narrowing the income gap is even more unequally distributed

The World Inequality Report 2026 notes how the world is extremely unequal, with wealth inequality still rapidly rising. Which policies could reduce inequality?

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Measuring Income Inequality Using a Graduated Poll Tax: Spain, 1874–1943 Miguel Artola Blanco and Joana María Pujadas-Mora examine how a graduated poll tax can be used to reconstruct historical income...

The World Inequality Lab is organizing the third edition of the World Inequality Conference, to be held at the Paris School of Economics on June 4-5, 2026.

Cutting hours through outsourcing Olivier Godechot and Ulysse Lojkine study the effects of on-site outsourcing of low-skilled service jobs (cleaning, catering, security) in France.