Paper · 2020 · advanced level
Measuring Income Inequality Across Countries and Over Time: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database
Frederick Solt
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- Social Science Quarterly, 101(3), 1183–1199
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In plain language
Builds the standard dataset used to compare income inequality across countries by statistically reconciling wildly different national definitions into one comparable panel.
Technical summary
SWIID standardizes disparate national inequality estimates (market/disposable, household/individual, gross/net) into a comparable cross-national panel with uncertainty estimates.
Key takeaways
- Unglamorous infrastructure paper that underlies a large share of quantitative comparative political-economy research on inequality and democracy.