Facundo Alvaredo

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Facundo Alvaredo is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Facundo Alvaredo has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Recurrent topics in Facundo Alvaredo's work include Income, Poverty, and Inequality (14 papers), Economic Theory and Policy (12 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (8 papers). Facundo Alvaredo is often cited by papers focused on Income, Poverty, and Inequality (14 papers), Economic Theory and Policy (12 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (8 papers). Facundo Alvaredo collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Argentina. Facundo Alvaredo's co-authors include Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty, Anthony B. Atkinson, Lucas Chancel, Gabriel Zucman, Hildegart Ahumada, Salvatore Morelli, Tony Atkinson, A. B. Atkinson and Leonardo Gasparini and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, American Economic Review and The Journal of Economic Perspectives.

In The Last Decade

Facundo Alvaredo

27 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

The World Inequality Report 2013 2026 2017 2021 2018 2013 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The World Inequality Report
    2018 557 citations Facundo Alvaredo Harvard University Press eBooks profile →
  2. The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
    2013 416 citations Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony B. Atkinson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Facundo Alvaredo France 15 981 820 383 261 245 27 1.8k
Kalpana Kochhar United States 18 1.1k 1.2× 565 0.7× 607 1.6× 126 0.5× 189 0.8× 59 1.9k
Steven Pressman United States 20 539 0.5× 520 0.6× 309 0.8× 136 0.5× 228 0.9× 110 1.3k
Andreas Bergh Sweden 20 937 1.0× 776 0.9× 240 0.6× 127 0.5× 516 2.1× 93 1.9k
Claudio E. Montenegro United States 23 1.6k 1.6× 690 0.8× 496 1.3× 378 1.4× 181 0.7× 53 2.5k
Andrea Brandolini Italy 19 1.8k 1.8× 921 1.1× 785 2.0× 232 0.9× 211 0.9× 52 2.6k
Martín Rama United States 23 992 1.0× 424 0.5× 385 1.0× 131 0.5× 220 0.9× 71 1.6k
Vera E. Troeger United Kingdom 12 886 0.9× 455 0.6× 241 0.6× 234 0.9× 694 2.8× 26 1.8k
Mathias Thoenig Switzerland 19 809 0.8× 652 0.8× 615 1.6× 129 0.5× 161 0.7× 47 1.8k
Walter E. Block United States 19 1.0k 1.0× 627 0.8× 303 0.8× 150 0.6× 354 1.4× 454 2.2k
Steven Β. Webb United States 23 1.0k 1.0× 489 0.6× 497 1.3× 199 0.8× 665 2.7× 73 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Facundo Alvaredo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Facundo Alvaredo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Facundo Alvaredo. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Facundo Alvaredo. The network helps show where Facundo Alvaredo may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Facundo Alvaredo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Facundo Alvaredo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Facundo Alvaredo based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Facundo Alvaredo. Facundo Alvaredo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Alvaredo, Facundo, et al.. (2024). The Concentration of Personal Wealth in Italy 1995–2016. Journal of the European Economic Association. 22(3). 1228–1274. 6 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, Françoìs Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, & Nora Lustig. (2024). Inequality bands: seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 4(Supplement_1). i9–i35. 3 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo & A. B. Atkinson. (2021). Top incomes in South Africa in the twentieth century. Cliometrica. 16(3). 477–546. 4 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, & Gabriel Zucman. (2020). Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Global Inequality Estimates from WID.world. Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics. 41–59. 9 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony B. Atkinson, & Salvatore Morelli. (2018). Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century. Iris (Roma Tre University). 62 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, et al.. (2018). Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990–2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?. Conicet. 47 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, Guillermo Cruces, & Leonardo Gasparini. (2018). A short episodic history of income distribution in Argentina. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 27(1). 11 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo & Cecilia García‐Peñalosa. (2018). Top incomes, wealth and inheritance: special issue in homage to Tony Atkinson. The Journal of Economic Inequality. 16(2). 131–136. 3 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, & Gabriel Zucman. (2018). The Elephant Curve of Global Inequality and Growth. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 108. 103–108. 83 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo. (2018). The World Inequality Report. Harvard University Press eBooks. 557 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alvaredo, Facundo, Augustin Bergeron, & Guilhem Cassan. (2017). Income concentration in British India, 1885–1946. Journal of Development Economics. 127. 459–469. 6 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, et al.. (2017). World Top Incomes Database. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 1(6066). 963–5. 21 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony B. Atkinson, & Salvatore Morelli. (2016). The Challenge of Measuring UK Wealth Inequality in the 2000s. Iris (Roma Tre University). 23 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo. (2011). A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient. Conicet. 118 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo & Tony Atkinson. (2010). Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa 1903-2005. SSRN Electronic Journal. 18 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo. (2010). A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient. Economics Letters. 110(3). 274–277. 22 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo & Emmanuel Saez. (2009). Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective. Journal of the European Economic Association. 7(5). 1140–1167. 78 indexed citations
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Ahumada, Hildegart, et al.. (2008). The monetary method to measure the shadow economy: The forgotten problem of the initial conditions. Economics Letters. 101(2). 97–99. 31 indexed citations
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Ahumada, Hildegart, et al.. (2007). THE MONETARY METHOD AND THE SIZE OF THE SHADOW ECONOMY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT. Review of Income and Wealth. 53(2). 363–371. 63 indexed citations
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Ahumada, Hildegart, et al.. (2006). The Demand for Currency Approach and the Size of the Shadow Economy: A Critical Assessment. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 9 indexed citations

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