RESEARCH

NEW: Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the Twentieth Century

with Stefan Nikolić and Piotr Larysz; Explorations in Economic History (forthcoming)


NEW: Income inequality in the 21st century Poland

with  Pawel Bukowski, Pawel Chrostek and Marek Skawinski; World Inequality Lab Working Paper N° 2023/31


NEW: Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019 

with Luis Bauluz, Paweł Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Lee, Margarita López Forero, Sébastien Breau, Neil Lee, Clément Malgouyres, Moritz Schularick and Gregory Verdugo; World Inequality Lab Working Paper N° 2023/14 


NEW: The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut

with Luis Bauluz and Moritz Schularick; CEPR Discussion Papers DP17215


Journal Publications

Between Communism and Capitalism: Long-Term Inequality in Poland, 1892-2015

with Pawel Bukowski; Journal of Economic Growth, 2021.

Non-technical summary in CentrePiece 


From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban elite transformation between 1988 and 2013  

with Branko Milanović and Li Yang; British Journal of Sociology, 2021.

Non-technical summary at: VoxEU.org, LSE Business Review


From Communism to Capitalism: Private vs. Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia

with Thomas Piketty, Li Yang, and Gabriel Zucman; American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings, 2018.

Abridged version published at AsiaGlobal Online: Why Inequality Divergence Between China and Russia? (with Li Yang);  at AsiaSentinel


From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia 1905-2015

with Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman; Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018.

Non-technical summary at VoxEU.org; Appendix at WID.world Database



Book Chapters

 Long-Run Inequality in Communist Countries: Before, During and After

In E. Douarin, O. Havrylyshyn (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics, 2021.


Political conflict, social inequality and electoral cleavages in Central-Eastern Europe, 1990-2018

with  Attila Lindner, Thomas Piketty and Tomasz Zawisza; In A. Ghetin, C. Martínez-Toledano, T. Piketty (eds.), Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities, 2021.



Working Papers

The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut

with Luis Bauluz and Moritz Schularick; CEPR Discussion Papers DP17215


Global Land Inequality

with Luis Bauluz, Yajna Govind and Daniel Sanchez Ordonez; WID.world working paper 2020/10.


After 'self-management': Top incomes in Croatia and Slovenia, 1960- 2015 

with Nataša Kump; WID.world working paper 2018/8

Media mentions: authored article in Jutarnji List (HR)


Long-run evolution of inequality in the Czech Lands 1898-2015

WID.world working paper 2018/5)


Work in progress


The Historical Evolution of Housing Wealth and its Distribution 

with Luis Bauluz, Pierre Brassac and Moritz Schularick


The Burden of Memory: Persistence of Ethnic Conflict in Yugoslavia

with Christoph Koenig and Leonard Kukić


Ethnic Conflict and Inequality

with  Pawel Bukowski, Jan Gromadzki and Jakub Rakosnik


How Romans ruled the world: Aqueducts and the administration of the Empire

with Per F. Anderson, Andrea Matranga, Andrea Papadia and Tom Zawisza