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Salvatore Morelli
Salvatore Morelli
Associate Professor in Public Economics at the University of Roma Tre (Rome), Law Department
Senior Scholar and Director of the GC- Wealth Project at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality - at The Graduate Center - CUNY (New York)
Research Associate - CSEF (University of Naples, Federico II) ; WID.world fellow; Visiting Fellow at the LSE International Inequality Institute
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CURRICULUM VITAE - Google scholar page
Expanding and consolidating access to the most up-to-date research and information on wealth, wealth inequalities, and wealth transfers and related tax policies, across countries and over time.
WORKING PAPERS
WORKING PAPERS
Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality using a Simplified Multiplier Method (with Facundo Alvaredo and Yonatan Berman), Stone Center Working Paper N.91; IZA Discussion Paper N17389; CSEF WP #735
A New Geography of Inequality: Top incomes in Italian Regions and Inner Areas (with Demetrio Guzzardi), Stone Center Working Paper N. 88; CSEF Working Paper #718
A SELECTION OF ONGOING WORKS (forthcoming drafts)
A SELECTION OF ONGOING WORKS (forthcoming drafts)
Inheritance Taxation in Global Perspective, (with Twisha Asher, Luca Giangregorio, Manuel Schechtl, Francesca Subioli)
Unit Nonresponse Bias in the Current Population Survey, (with Ercio Munoz).
The Return of Inheritance (with Demetrio Guzzardi)
The Income-Wealth-Emissions Triangle, Evidence from Italy, (with D. Guzzardi, M. Ranaldi, F. Roscioli, and F. Vaccaro)
DATA
DATA
The Chartbook of Economic Inequality, 2017, INET Oxford working paper 2017-10 (with A. B. Atkinson, J. Hasell, and M. Roser), a new data update in progress
[ DATA / Interactive Website] Previous versions: (with A.B. Atkinson), Mar 2014,[ECINEQ wp]; (with A.B. Atkinson), 2012, [INET Research notes #5]
The GC Wealth Project - Data Warehouse v.1.2 - Documentation (with T. Asher, F. Di Biase, F. Disslbacher, I. Flores, L. Giangregorio, A. R. Johnson, M. Longmuir, G. Rella, M. Schechtl, F. Subioli, and M. Targa), 2024/12, STONE CENTER ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITY WORKING PAPER SERIES N 99[ [GitHub page / Interactive Website]
PUBLICATIONS (peer reviewed)
PUBLICATIONS (peer reviewed)
Wealth Composition, Distribution, and Transmission: The Graduate Center Wealth Project Data Warehouse, 2026, Scientific Data, (with Maximilian Longmuir, Franziska Disslbacher, Severin Rapp, Frincasco Di Biase, Giacomo Rella, Francesca Subioli, Adam Rego Johnson, Matteo Targa, Manuel Schechtl, Twisha Asher, Luca Giangregorio & Ignacio Flores.)
The Influence of Intergenerational Transfers on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries, 2025, Journal of Public Economics, (with Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino, and Philippe Van Kerm).
[Stone Center Working Paper N. 94] [REPLICATION CODE]
Wealth, Inheritance, and Concentration: Italy and its Regions from the Unification to the Great War, 2025, Review of Income and Wealth, (with Giacomo Gabbuti).
[Stone Center Working Paper N. 78]; [CSEF Working Paper #695] [DATA & REPLICATION CODE]
The concentration of personal wealth in Italy 1995–2016, 2024, Journal of the European Economic Association (with Paolo Acciari and Facundo Alvaredo)
[Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper N 36]; [LSE III Working Paper N 88]; [CSEF Working Paper #608]; ONLINE APPENDIX; DATA AND CODES
Older WP versions: [World Inequality Lab – Working Paper N° 2021/14]; [CEPR Discussion Paper DP16053];
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes Between Tax Data and Household Survey Data , 2022, Journal of Economic Inequality (with Nishant Yonzan, Branko Milanovic, and Janet Gornick)
[LIS WP ]; [Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality WP ]; [CSEF WP].
Intergenerational Wealth Transfers in Great Britain from the Wealth and Assets Survey in Comparative Perspective, 2022, Fiscal Studies (with Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino, and Philippe Van Kerm)
The wealth (disadvantage) of single parents, 2022, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (with Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino, and Philippe Van Kerm)
Inheritance, Gifts and the Wealth Deficit of Low-Income Households , 2021, Journal of European Social Policy (with Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino, and Philippe Van Kerm)
[Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality WP ]
kmr: A STATA Command to Correct Survey Weights for Unit Nonresponse using Group’s Response Rates, 2021, The Stata Journal (with Ercio Munoz)
[link to CODE] [Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality WP ]Intergenerational wealth transfers and wealth inequality in rich countries: What do we learn from Gini decomposition?, 2021, Economic Letters (with Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino, and Philippe Van Kerm)
A tale of two countries: The long shadow of the crisis on income and wealth in Germany and Italy, 2020, Journal of Modern European History (with Charlotte Bartels)
The Dynamics of Wealth Concentration: Thoughts on Tony Atkinson’s Contributions, 2020, Italian Economic Journal
Top Wealth Shares in the UK over More than a Century, 2018, Journal of Public Economics, (with Facundo Alvaredo and Anthony B. Atkinson)
[DATA] [ONLINE APPENDIX ] [LONGER version: CEPR discussion paper / CSEF wp]Banking Crises in the US: the Response of Top Income Shares in a Historical Perspective, 2018, Journal of Economic Inequality
[LONGER version : CSEF wp]nequality in the 2000s, 2016, Fiscal Studies (with Facundo Alvaredo and Anthony B. Atkinson)
[CEPR discussion paper/LSE-III wp/CSEF wp]Inequality and Crises Revisited, 2015, Economia Politica - Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics (with Anthony B. Atkinson)
[CSEF wp ]CHAPTERS, REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS, REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Fixing the Climate with Experimental Governace? How?, 2023, Roma Tre Law Review - 02/2023 , Roma Tre Press (with B. Annicchiarico, R. Baratta, T. Di Marcello, and C. Sabel)
CHAPTER: On the Distribution of Estates and the Distribution of Wealth: Evidence from the Dead, 2022, NBER Volume "Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth", editors: R. Chetty, J. M. Friedman, J. C. Gornick, B. Johnson & A. Kennickell, University of Chicago Press. (with Yonatan Berman)
see NBER working paper No. 28546
CHAPTER: Wealth Transfers and Net Wealth at Death: Evidence from the Italian Inheritance Tax Records 1995-2016 , 2022, NBER Volume "Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth", editors: R. Chetty, J. M. Friedman, J. C. Gornick, B. Johnson & A. Kennickell, University of Chicago Press. (with Paolo Acciari)
see NBER working paper No. 27899
The Wealth of Families: The Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth in Britain in Comparative Perspective , 2020. INET Oxford Report funded by the Nuffield Foundation, (with Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino, and Philippe Van Kerm)
CHAPTER: Recent Trends in Income Inequality, 2019
Chapter 9 in “Reducing social inequalities in cancer: evidence and priorities for research”, IARC Scientific Publication No. 168, edited by Vaccarella S, Lortet-Tieulent J, Saracci R, Conway DI, Straif K, Wild CP. International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization. (with Joe Hasell and Max Roser)
CHAPTER: Wealth Inequality, 2018
in “Generating Prosperity for Working Families in Affluent Countries” ed. Brian Nolan, Oxford University Press (OUP). (with Brian Nolan and Philippe Van Kerm)
CHAPTER: Rising inequality and economic stability, 2017
in “After Piketty: the Inequality Agenda post-Capital in the 21st Century”, eds. H. Boushey, B. DeLong and M. Steinbaum, Harvard University Press (HUP).
In the Media/blogosphere: {Washington Center for Equitable Growth}; Video: {Launch event at CUNY - May 2017}CHAPTER: Post-1970 trends in within-country inequality and poverty: rich and middle income countries, 2015 Handbook of Income Distribution Vol. 2A, pp. 596-693 (with Timothy Smeeding and Jeffrey P. Thompson) Elsevier B.V. (eds. A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon)
[Handbook page][CSEF wp]Reply to Consultation about ceasing publication of HMRC's Personal Wealth National Statistics, UK, 2016, (with F. Alvaredo, and A. B. Atkinson) [pdf]
CHAPTER: Post-1970 trends in within-country inequality and poverty: rich and middle income countries, 2015 Handbook of Income Distribution Vol. 2A, pp. 596-693 (with Timothy Smeeding and Jeffrey P. Thompson) Elsevier B.V. (eds. A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon)
[Handbook page][CSEF wp]Inequality, Debt and Growth, 2012, Report for the Resolution Foundation (with P. Lucchino) [Paper]
In the Media/blogosphere: {Financial Times / The Guardian / OECD insights}Economic Crisis and Inequality, 2011, Human Development Research Paper, 2011/06, UNDP. (with A.B. Atkinson).
Prepared for the Human Development Report 2011, UNDP, New York [Paper]Income Inequality and Banking Crisis: a First Look, 2010, report prepared for the Global Labor Forum 2011 (ILO) in Turin. (with A.B. Atkinson)
[Paper] In the Media/blogosphere: {NYTimes Economix blog / The Economist / Harvard Kennedy Sch, Rappaport Inst / Adam Smith Inst / The Atlantic / The Atlantic WireOTHER PUBLICATIONS (IN ITALIAN)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (IN ITALIAN)
Ricchezza, eredità e disuguaglianze, 2025, chapter 1 in Non è Giusta - L'Italia delle disuguaglianze. Laterza (edited by Giacomo Gabbuti). (with Giacomo Gabbuti)
Un’imposta sui grandi patrimoni?, 2024, Politica economica, Journal of Economic Policy, 1-2/2024, pp. 111-128 (with Elena Granaglia)
Ricchezza, 2024, l’Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Treccani, Appendice XI.
Un’eredità universale per contrastare la lotteria della nascita, 2024, Rivista MicroMega.
Disuguaglianze: le tante fratture socio-economiche, 2024, in Quale Europa. Capire, discutere, scegliere. Donzelli Editore (edited by Elena Granaglia e Gloria Riva).
L’inversione delle fortune: come e perché è aumentata la diseguaglianza 2024, in L'economia, la politica, i luoghi. Scritti per Fabrizio Barca. Donzelli Editore (edited by Filippo Barbera e Patrizia Luongo).
Perché serve un’eredità universale, 2021. Rivista il Mulino 3/21 (with E. Granaglia).
Contro le disuguaglianza da ricchezza originaria, 2019. Rivista il Mulino 4/19 (with E. Granaglia)
Un passaggio generazionale piu´ giusto, 2019
Chapter 3 in “15 Proposte per la Giustizia Sociale - Ispirate al Programma di Azione di Anthony Atkinson”, edited by F. Barca and P. Luongo. Report for Forum Disuguaglianza e Diversita' - Italian Forum on Inequality and Diversity. (with Elena Granaglia)
Le Disuguaglianze Economico-Sociali in Italia - Tre Workshops per l'esplorazione di analisi, quesiti irrisolti e traiettorie di ricerca future, 2016. (Testo redatto per la Fondazione Basso, Roma), Settembre 2016.
ARTICLES & CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MEDIA
ARTICLES & CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MEDIA
In English
19 Nov, 2025 (Reuters - interview) Italy's light touch on inheritance tax comes at a cost, economists say.
3 Nov, 2025 (The Guardian - mention) More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn.
Jun 3, 2025 (SIEP - Temi di Economia Pubblica) The Concentration of Personal Wealth in Italy 1995–2016
May 1, 2025 (The Economist ) Inheritance boom: why having rich parents may trump hard work, podcast "Money Talks"
12 Nov 2024 (Stone Center GC CUNY) : Richer and More Equal? A Conversation between Salvatore Morelli and Daniel Waldenström
5 Nov 2021 (VoxEu.org) Mind the gap: Disparities in measured income between survey and tax data (with Nishant Yonzan, Branko Milanovic, and Janet Gornick)
24 Apr 2021 (VoxEu.org) The growing concentration of wealth in Italy: Evidence from a new source of data (with Paolo Acciari and Facundo Alvaredo)
19 Sep 2020 (VoxEu.org) The intergenerational transmission of wealth in rich countries (with Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino, and Philippe Van Kerm)
9 Sep 2020 (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Blog) The Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth in Rich Countries (with Brian Nolan, Juan Palomino, and Philippe Van Kerm)
15 Dec 2019 (LIS newsletter - Inequality matters) Can We Obtain Better Distributional Measures Correcting for Differential Unit Non-Response Bias in Household Surveys? An Illustration Using Data from the US Current Population Survey (with Ercio Munoz)
01 Jun 2018 (LIS newsletter - Inequality matters) Comparing top incomes between survey and tax data: US case study (with Nishant Yonzan, Branko Milanovic, and Janet Gornick)
07 Jun 2017 (Equitablegrowth.org) Is Growing Inequality Hurting our Economies?
20 Jan 2017 (Euvisions.eu) Putting people first: the legacy of Tony Atkinson
07 May 2016 (Dissertation Reviews)- Morality, Economic Inequality, and Policy Responses.
08 Dec 2015 (VoxEU)- The importance of wealth concentration and why it is so difficult to measure (with F.Alvaredo & T.Atkinson)
26 Mar 2014 (VoxEU)-The Chartbook of Economic Inequality-(with T. Atkinson). Appeared also on INETblog / Oxford Martin School blog / Inequality&History blog
20 Mar 2014 (Inequality&History Blog)- Are we all in this together? the new Chartbook of Economic Inequality - (with T. Atkinson)
18 Mar 2014 (INET Blog)-The Chartbook of Economic Inequality - (with T. Atkinson)
In Italian
In Italian
24 Aprile 2026 (Dissonanze Rivista) Tassare le eredità per ridurre i divari e dare forza all’economia
26 Febbraio 2026 (Pagella Politica - intervista) È vero che i super ricchi pagano poche tasse?, "Conti in tasca - Oltre le notizie economiche"
Febbraio 2026 (VITA - magazine) Disuguaglianze, come uscire dal vortice. Fisco
11 Febbraio 2026 (France TV -intervista) France TV Rome sulla tassazione dell'eredità in Italia,
Gennaio 2026 (ECO - magazine) La patrimoniale che divide l’Italia,
20 Gennaio 2026 (Il Fatto Quotidiano -intervista)Dai milionari di Milano ai dati sulla ricchezza in Italia, l’esperto: “Dietro la concentrazione anche il fisco iniquo. Cambiare Irpef e tasse di successione
27 Ottobre 2025 (Il Fatto Quotidiano) - Italia è il paradiso delle eredità. Tassarle è giusto e anche utile.
27 Aprile 2025 (Domani) - Tutti ne parlano, nessuno la propone: la patrimoniale ci salverà dall’iniquità, (with Demetrio Guzzardi)
6 Marzo, 2025 (Domani) - Anche il liberale Economist si è accorto dell’Ereditocrazia: un mondo basato non sul merito ma sull’eredità
24 Febbraio, 2025 (Domani) - Ricchi che migrano per non pagare tasse: serve la patrimoniale
24 Luglio 2024 (MicroMega) -
Un’eredità universale per contrastare la lotteria della nascita,
16 Febbraio 2024 - (L'Espresso) - Ricchi e Poveri per Sempre
1 Luglio 2022 - (Domani) - Come garantire una “eredità universale” a molti giovani tassando i vantaggi di pochi (with Elena Granaglia)
12 Febbrario 2022 - (Domani) - I patrimoni degli italiani sono sempre più concentrati
1 Dic 2021 - (Jacobin Italia - sito) - La tassazione regressiva (with Antonio Scialà)
10 Giu 2021 - (Jacobin Italia - N11) - Conoscere i ricchi.
21 Mag 2021 - (Il Fatto Quotidiano) - Italia paradiso dell’eredità Ma Draghi: “Niente tasse "
21 Mag 2021 - (Domani) - Perché l’eredità universale deve andare a tutti i giovani (non solo ai più poveri. (with Elena Granaglia and Andrea Morniroli)
17 Mag 2021 - (Lavoce.info) - Ricchezza sempre più concentrata anche in Italia
26 Apr 2021 - (Il Fatto Quotidiano) - La lotta di classe in Italia l’hanno vinta i ricchi (ereditieri)
16/03/2021 - (Domani) - Per evitare l'impoverimento servono misure inclusive (with Nunzia De Capite)
24 Oct 2020 - (Domani) - L'imposta sulle eredià è efficiente. La difesa della famiglia è una scusa. (with Elena Granaglia)
20 Oct 2020 - (Lavoce.info) - Le eredità degli italiani? Per pochi e sempre più ricche
19 Oct 2020 - (Il Fatto Quotidiano) - Il merito? Meglio le eredità. Il loro peso è raddoppiato
15 Jul 2020 - (Menabò di Etica ed Economia) - Un’Agenzia delle Entrate con maggiori risorse per combattere evasione ed erosione fiscale (with Enrico Rubolino)
15 Jun 2020 - (Il Fatto Quotidiano) - Trent’anni di redditi stagnanti: l’Italia è più povera e diseguale
17 Apr 2020 - (Lavoce.info) - Se crolla il mito del risparmio degli italiani
16 Dic 2019 - (Menabò di Etica ed Economia) Le disuguaglianze economiche non sono un'illusione.
5 Dic 2019 - (Avvenire) Disuguaglianze le "Illusioni" dell'Economist.
20 Ago 2019 - (Jacobin Italia) - Flat tax, disuguaglianze e le tasse dei futuri governi.
19 Apr 2019 - (lavoce.info) - Diamo un’eredita' a tutti i giovani (with Elena Granaglia).
1 Ott 2018 - (Italia Caritas) - Lo Stivale Diseguale
26 Jun 2018 (Huffington Post) La Flat Tax? Si torna indietro (letteralmente) di cento anni (with G. Gabbuti).
18 Mar 2018 (Forum Disuguaglianze Diversita') Da Roma a Londra ora si combattono le disuguaglianze e la retorica “patrimonialista”
26 Jan 2017 (Newsletter Asvis) Una carriera contro le disuguaglianze: l'eredita' intellettuale di Anthony Atkinson
16 Jan 2017 (Menabò di Etica ed Economia) Putting people first: in ricordo di Tony Atkinson
05 Jun 2015 (lavoce.info). Sulla disuguaglianza c'e' ancora tanto da scoprire
15 Apr 2015 (Menabò di Etica ed Economia). La crisi ed il reddito dei ricchi.
02 Mar 2015 (Corriere del Mezzogiorno). Aziende e politica, il Sud non e' delle donne. Versione apparsa anche su www.quattrogatti.info con il titolo "Il ruolo delle donne nel lavoro e nella societa' ".
25 Nov 2014(Quattrogatti.info)-Il TFR in busta paga aumenta i consumi? (with T. Jappelli). Versione breve apparsa anche sul Corriere del Mezzogiorno.
17 Mar 2014 (Pagina99)-La carta globale della disuguaglianza. Articolo apparso anche su quattrogatti.info
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