JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Wealth in Spain, 1900-2017: A Country of Two Lands  (with Miguel Artola Blanco and Clara Martínez-Toledano) 

The Economic Journal, 2021, Vol. 131, Issue 633, pp. 129-155

Database: Spain Wealth Database; Media coverage: El Diario, Blog NeG , and the 1st World Inequality Report (2018)

WORKING PAPERS

• Global Wealth Accumulation and Ownership Patterns, 1800-2025 [NEW! November 2025]  (with Pierre Brassac, Jonas Dietrich, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Gastón Nievas, Moritz Odersky, Thomas Piketty, Alice Sodano, and Anmol Somanchi)

• Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 [NEW! October 2025] (with the WIL team)

• The Wealth of Generations (with Timothy Meyer) R&R at Review of Economic Studies

[Latest version] [SSRN working paper] [Slides]; Media coverage: VoxEU, Bloomberg, El Confidencial, Blog NeG

• The Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut (with Filip Novokmet and Moritz Schularick)

[latest version] [Working Paper]

• Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019 (with Sebastien Breau, Pawel Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Lee, Neil Lee, Margarita Lopez Forero, Clement Malgouyres, Filip Novokmet, Moritz Schularick,  Gregory Verdugo) [New version soon!]

[Working Paper]; [Summary] [website]; Media coverage: VoxEU, El Confidencial, CEP-LSE Centre piece

• Land Inequality in the Developing World (with Yajna Govind, Filip Novokmet and Daniel Sánchez Ordoñez) [New version soon!]

[Working Paper]; [Summary]; Media coverage: The Guardian and International Land Coalition (ILC) Report - Uneven Grounds

BOOK CHAPTERS AND POLICY REPORTS

• Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020 (with Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano and Marc Morgan)

in A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano, T. Piketty (ed.), Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities. Harvard University Press, 2021.

  [Working paper]; [Summary]; [Appendix]; Media coverage: Agenda Pública

• España 2050: Fundamentos y Propuestas para una Estrategia Nacional a Largo Plazo, Capítulo 8. -- [Website]; [Executive summary]

Report on Spain's inequality, co-authored with other social scientists in collaboration with the Spanish Strategic Foresight Office, May 2021

• La riqueza y su distribución en España en el largo plazo: 1900-2021  (with Miguel Artola Blanco and Clara Martínez-Toledano)

in J. Carbonell, B. León and J. Soria (ed.), La desigualdad en España. Lengua de Trapo, 2024; Media coverage: El Diario

METHODOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS

• Estimation of Global Wealth Aggregates in WID.world: Methodology  (with Pierre Brassac, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty and Alice Sodano)

• Global Wealth Inequality on WID.world: Estimates and Imputations (with Felix Bajard, Pierre Brassac, Lucas Chancel, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty and Alice Sodano)

• Distributional National Accounts Guidelines: Methods and Concepts Used in the World Inequality Database (Working paper,  Sept. 2020) (with the WID's co-directors and coordinators)

• Revised National Income and Wealth Series: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the USA  (Working paper, Aug. 2019)