Assessing inequality using percentile shares

Jann, Ben (2016). Assessing inequality using percentile shares. Stata journal, 16(2), pp. 264-300. Stata Press 10.1177/1536867X1601600202

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At least since Thomas Piketty's best-selling \Capital in the Twenty-
First Century" (2014, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press), percentile shares have
become a popular approach for analyzing distributional inequalities. In their work
on the development of top incomes, Piketty and collaborators typically report top-
percentage shares, using varying percentages as thresholds (top 10%, top 1%, top
0.1%, etc.). However, analysis of percentile shares at other positions in the distri-
bution may also be of interest. In this paper I present a new Stata command called
pshare that estimates percentile shares from individual-level data and displays the
results using histograms or stacked bar charts.

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