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Method bridges macro accounts with inequality data

The distributional national accounts method bridges the gap between macroeconomic study (which uses National Accounts) and inequality study (which uses tax and survey data) by combining all three sources so that growth statistics for each fractile add up to headline GDP/National Income growth, allocating total national income to population groups.

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Gabriel Zucman

Evidence Quote

approximate the distribution of Total National Income, as we call it in the National Accounts. And, I want to stress that this, what we've done, in my view, is very much a prototype.

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Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National AccountsEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:26:44 AM

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