US Inequality Data

• Final dataset (.xlsx) of white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios and Black and white per capita wealth (in $2019) available here. Full replication archive available here. 

• Replication archive available here. Copies of US Census Bureau city government employment database and finances of individual governments database available here and here.

A database of historical and contemporary characteristics of urban, non-southern commuting zones in the US. Topics include

• Economic characteristics

• Neighborhood and social characteristics

• Political and cultural characteristics

• Incarceration and crime

• Schools

• Public finance

• Population characteristics

Download here. Full documentation coming soon.

Data

• Minimum Wage database (1950-1980): minimum wages by state, industry, month, year for men (.xlsx), and women (.xlsx)

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry Wage Reports: raw data 1960s (.html) and 1970-1979 (.html)

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry Wage Reports: digitized data for laundries, hotels, restaurants & nursing homes (.dta), schools (.dta), and hospitals (.dta) by gender, area, region & occupation, and average wages data for both industries covered in 1938 and 1967 (.dta)

• Complete raw data: March CPS, U.S. decennial censuses, BLS industry wage reports, CPI-U-RS series, minimum wage databases, etc. (.html)

Replication archive:

• Complete data, programs, tables, figures & tex files: Working Paper, main and appendix tables and figures, raw and output data & programs (.html)