Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession, Christoph Lakner and Branko Milanovic, World Bank Economic Review, 2016 30(2): 203-232 first published online August 12, 2015. Working paper (2013). Dataset. Anonymous Growth Incidence Curve (the 'elephant chart'): Excel, Stata .do file. 

Global Inequality, Christoph Lakner, 2017. In: Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong and Marshall Steinbaum (eds.): After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality, Harvard University Press. Working paper (2016).

Inequality of opportunity and economic growth: a cross-country analysis, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo, and Berk Özler, Review of Income and Wealth, 2018 64(4): 800-827. Working paper (2014). 

Is inequality underestimated in Egypt? Evidence from house prices, Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, and Elena Ianchovichina, Review of Income and Wealth, 2018 64(S1): S55-S79. Working paper (2016).

The distribution of consumption expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa: the inequality among all Africans, La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul and Christoph Lakner, Journal of African Economies, 2020 29(1): 1-25 first published online June 6, 2019. Working paper (2016). 

Capital and Labor: The Factor Income Composition of Top Incomes in the United States, 1962-2006, Anthony B. Atkinson and Christoph Lakner, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103(5): 892–904. Working paper (2015). Working paper (2017). Summary (2018).

How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty?, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Mario Negre, and Espen Beer Prydz, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20:559–585. Working papers: June 2020; May 2019; July 2015; November 2014.

Measuring Global Poverty in a Changing World, Dean Jolliffe and Christoph Lakner, 2023. In: Klaus Zimmermann, K.F. (eds): Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer.

Intergenerational Mobility around the World: A new database, Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Ambar Narayan, Rakesh Gupta, 2024, Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 166. Working Paper.

Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty, Dean Jolliffe ⓡ Daniel Gerszon Mahler ⓡ Christoph Lakner ⓡ Aziz Atamanov ⓡ Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, forthcoming, World Bank Economic Review. Working Paper.