TY - JOUR AU - Steckel,Richard H. AU - Moehling,Carolyn M. TI -
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New
Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses JF - National Bureau
of Economic Research Historical Working Paper Series VL - No.
122 PY - 2000 Y2 - February 2000 UR -
http://www.nber.org/papers/h0122 L1 -
http://www.nber.org/papers/h0122.pdf N1 - Author contact info:
Richard H. Steckel Department of Economics Ohio State University
410 Arps Hall, 1945 North High Street Columbus, OH 43210-1172
Tel: 614/292-5008 Fax: 614/292-3906 E-Mail: steckel.1@osu.edu
Carolyn Moehling Department of Economics Rutgers University 75
Hamilton Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248 Tel: 732/932-7188
Fax: NA E-Mail: cmoehling@econ.rutgers.edu AB - This paper
assembles new data and new methods for studying wealth
inequality trends in industrializing America. Records of
household heads from the census matched with real and personal
property tax records for Massachusetts reveal that the Theil
entropy measure of inequ