On the Long Run Evolution of Inheritance – France 1820-2050 

Thomas Piketty

List of Files - September 2010

This research is available in two formats: short version (published article, QJE 2011, 61 pages) or long version (full-length working paper, including data appendices, WP 2010, 424 pages).

Piketty, T. "On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance - France 1820-2050", Quarterly Journal of Economics , vol.61(3), 2011, pp.1071-1131 [article (pdf)]

Piketty, T., "On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance - France 1820-2050", Paris School of Economics, Working Paper, 2010, 424 pages [working paper (pdf)]

The zip file Piketty2010DataAppendix.zip includes all pdf files, as well as all data files and computer codes in excel and stata formats used in this research. These files can also be accessed directly:

- MainTablesFigues.xls = excel file containing all tables and figures included in the working paper, with linked formulas to other excel files & sheets

- AppendixTables(NationalAccountsData).xls = excel file containing all tables from appendix A, with linked formulas to other excel files & sheets

- AppendixTables(EstateTaxData).xls = excel file containing all tables from appendix B, with linked formulas to other excel files & sheets

- AppendixTables(DemoData).xls = excel file containing all tables from appendix C, with linked formulas to other excel files & sheets

- AppendixTables(Simulations).xls = excel file containing all tables from appendix D, with linked formulas to other excel files & sheets

- AppendixTables(SSFormulas).xls = excel file containing all tables from appendix E, with linked formulas to other excel files & sheets

- AppendixFigures.xls = excel file containing supplementary figures drawn from appendix tables, with linked formulas to other excel files & sheets

- AppendixDemoData.zip and AppendixDemoData.zip: zip file containing a number of stata format data sets and do files used in the simulations (the exact list and description of these files is given in Appendix C3 and Appendix E6)

- Piketty2010WP.pdf = pdf file for working paper (126p.)

- Piketty2010DataAppendixPart1.pdf & Piketty2010DataAppendixPart2.pdf  = pdf files for the data appendices (295p.)

- Presentation slides (september 2010) (pdf format)    (ppt format)