U.S.
State-Level Income Inequality Data - Mark W. Frank
My current
research offers a comprehensive panel of annual state-level income inequality
measures that I have constructed from individual tax filing data available from
the Internal Revenue Service.
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Updated
September 2023 (for tax years 2019 and 2020)
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Frank-Sommeiller-Price
Series Annual Top Income Shares by U.S. State, 1917-2020: Top 10%, Top 5%, Top 1%, Top
0.5%, Top 0.1% and Top 0.01% income share measures
prepared for World Wealth & Income Database:
(download in the Database section, wid.world) For an explanation of the
construction of this series, see: PDF by Frank, Sommeiller, Price, and Saez. For construction of the full
dataset (including the percentile thresholds), see: Excel
File (.xls), file includes notes on the
variables & construction Stata
File (.dta) For
explanations, other measures and my prior work, see: Frank, Mark.
W. 2009 "Inequality and Growth in the United States: Evidence from a New
State-Level Panel of Income Inequality Measure" Economic Inquiry, Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 55-68: Web
Link. PDF. Original data used in the Economic Inquiry article: Top 10% Share of
Income, 1945-2004 Human Capital Attainment,
1945-2004 (see below for an update on this data) Pooled MG
Estimator used in the Economic
Inquiry article: Blackburne,
Edward F. and Mark W. Frank 2007. "Estimation
of Nonstationary Heterogeneous Panels." The Stata Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pages 197-208: PDF Frank, Mark.
W. 2014 "A New State-Level Panel of Annual Inequality Measures over the
Period 1916 - 2005" Journal of
Business Strategies, vol. 31, no. 1, pages 241-263: PDF Update on Other Measures of Income
Inequality (Atkinson Index, Gini Coefficient, Relative Mean Deviation, Theil
Index), 1917-2020: Excel
File (.xls) Stata
File (.dta) |
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State-Level Top 10% Income Shares,
1917-2020
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Also: Top Income Shares by State since 1917
using US Thresholds This is a newly constructed dataset showing the
state-level location of those in the US top income groups (Top 10%, Top 5%,
Top 1%, Top 0.5%, Top 0.1% and Top 0.01%). For an explanation of this
series, see: PDF by Frank. For the full dataset: Excel File (.xls),
or Stata File (.dta) |
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Annual State-Level Measures of Human Capital
Attainment, 1940-2015: High School and College Attainment This data is revised and updated, see Frank (2009): Frank, Mark. W. 2009 "Inequality and Growth in the United States: Evidence from a New State-Level Panel of Income Inequality Measure" Economic Inquiry, Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 55-68: Web Link. PDF. Excel File (.xls) Stata File (.dta) |
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