🔊 The HHB WP no. 1️⃣8️⃣ is out! "Aristocracy and Inequality in Italy, 1861-1931" illustrates how data on the incomes of #noblefamilies 👑 change available estimates of long-run #inequality in Italy, right back to the country’s founding in 1861 📈
Here: https://t.co/HdO7AMi7uN
📜 The paper uses data on #income for some 10,000 #households from 1427 #Florence's Tax Register (Catasto) combined with new #data from #Leonardo’s family #accounts and estimates of his own income. (2/2)
🔎 Read about this and much more at: https://t.co/7XIVxqQMjI
📢 The #HHB Working Paper no. 1️⃣7️⃣ is OUT!
▶️ On the 500th anniversary of #Leonardo da Vinci's death, the paper by A'Hearn, Chianese, and Vecchi presents the main economic features of the society in which #Leonardo lived. (1/2)
The latest #HHB working paper confirms common perception that #Italy is no country for young people, using #data. Full text available here: https://t.co/mF1WJoAtXP