Below I've compiled some of my favorite long-run figures. Strong US-bias here - apologies. Email me if you think others should be included.

The child penalty on female earnings decreased and then stabilized

in "The Geography of Child Penalties and Gender Norms" by Kleven (2022)

White-Black wealth gap, 1860-2020

in "Wealth of Two Nations" by Derenoncourt et al. (2022)

The use of romantic words in literature

in "The cultural evolution of love in literary history" by Baumard et al. (2022)

Real wages in England over 800 years

in "The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1209-2004" by Clark (2005)

The great divergence in European wages

in "The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War" by Robert C Allen (2001)

The Great Compression

in "The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century" by Goldin and Margo (1992)

Gini coefficient for income and wealth inequality

in "ncome and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949–2016" by Kuhn, Schularick and Steins (2020)

Share of wealth owned by very rich

in "Trend in US Income and wealth Inequality: Revising after the Revisionists" by Saez and Zucman (2020)

Rise of lifetime inequality within gender offset by male-female convergence

in "Lifetime Incomes in the United States over Six Decades" by Guvenen et al. (2018)

Return on wealth and GDP across 16 countries

in "The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015" by Jordà, Knoll, Kuvshinov, Schularick, and Taylor (2019)

Educational wage premium

in "Extending the Race between Education and Technology" by Autor, Goldin and Katz (2020)

Trend in education

in "Extending the Race between Education and Technology" by Autor, Goldin and Katz (2020)

Educational assortative mating

in "Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality" by Eika, Mogstad, and Zafar (2019)

Trend in Female LFP

in "The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women’s Labor Force Participation" by Boustan and Collins (2014)

Unions and inequality

in "Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid‐century: evidence from local labour markets" by Collins and Niemesh (2020)

Unions and inequality pt2

in "Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data" by Farber, Herbst, Kuziemko and Naidu (2020)

Immigrant flows in US

in "Immigration in American Economic History" by Abramitzky and Boustan (2017)

Immigrant origins in the US

in "Immigration in American Economic History" by Abramitzky and Boustan (2017)

Black-white income gaps

in "Divergent Paths: A new perspective on Earnings Differences Between Black and White Men since 1940" by Bayer and Charles (2018)

Black-white residential segregation

in "Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities" by Shertzer and Walsh (2017)

Immigrant residential segregation

in "The Residential Segregation of Immigrants in the United States from 1850 to 1940" by Eriksson and Ward (2019)

The Great Migration

in "The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A Guide and Interpretation" by Collins (2020)

Internal migration since 1850

in "The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990" by Rosenbloom and Sundstrom (2003)

Rural-Urban wage gaps

in "What Explains Wage Gaps between Farm and City? Exploring the Todaro Model with American Evidence, 1890-1941" by Hatton and Williamson (1994)

The price of light

in "Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not" by Nordhaus (1996)

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