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ekon talk is the weekly economics podcast. Today's guest is Gabriel zuckman, professor of economics at the university of california berkeley. The topic for day is his recent paper with emanual siez and thomas pickety, distributionall national accounts, methods and estimates for the united states. We'll try to give listeners an idea of what the paper finds, and how such a finding is actually constructed using data.

Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research on inequality and the distribution of income in the United States over the last 35 years. Zucman finds that there has been no change in income for the bottom half of the income distribution over this time period with large gains going to the top 1%. The conversation explores the robustness of this result to various assumptions and possible explanations for the findings.