U.S. State-Level Income Inequality Data

 

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New State-Level Panel of Income Inequality Measures

My current research offers a new, comprehensive panel of income inequality measures that I have constructed from individual tax filing data available from the Internal Revenue Service. The data set consists of annual inequality measures over the 60 year period 1945 to 2004 for 48 U.S. states (2,880 total observations).

Download the Top Decile Share of Income:

Stata 9 Format (.dta)

Comma Separated File (.csv)

See Online Version of the paper:

Frank, M. W. "Inequality and Growth in the United States: Evidence from a New State-Level Panel of Income Inequality Measure" Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

 

This project also includes a comprehensive panel of state-level high school and college attainment measures over the 60 year period 1945 to 2004 for 48 U.S. states (2,880 total observations).

Download the Educational Attainment Data:

State 9 Format (.dta)

Comma Separated File (.csv)

 

 

View State-Level Income Inequality Graphs:

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