Books
Energy and inequality: A political history
Éditions du Seuil, 2025
Book published in French on 3 October 2025 (Publishing house: Le Seuil). English translation forthcoming.
Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment
Harvard University Press, 2020
Selection of best books in economics – Financial Times
Selection of best science books – Nature
“An original perspective on the two greatest challenges of our times” – Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Climate Inequality Report 2023
Lucas Chancel, Philipp. Bothe, Tancrèe Voituriez. Climate Inequality Report 2023. World Inequality Lab.
Synthesis of recent studies on global climate inequalities and proposal to finance climate investments in the global South. Report written b Key findings covered by the Financial Times, the Guardian, Time, Le Monde, El Pais…
Research articles
The carbon perception gap in actual and ideal carbon footprints across wealth groups [New]
Avec Johanna Köchling, Julia Koller, Jana Straßheim, Yannic Rehm, Claudia Diehl, Harald Schupp, Britta Renner, Nature Communications, (16) 2025.
Climate Change and the Global Distribution of Wealth
With Cornelia Mohren, Philipp Bothe, Gregor Semieniuk, Nature Climate Change, 2025.
Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India: Proposals Based on Latest Inequality Estimates
With Nitin Bharti, Thomas Piketty, Anmol Somanchi. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 59 (21):91-96, 2024.
Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj
With Nitin Bharti, Thomas Piketty et Anmol Somanchi. World Inequality Lab Working Paper 2024/09.
Accounting for the Carbon Footprint of Capital Ownership Advances the Understanding of Emission Inequality
Lucas Chancel and Yannic Rehm, Climatic Change, 2025.
The Potential of Wealth Taxation to Address the Triple Climate Inequality Crisis
Chancel, L., Bothe P., Voituriez, T., Nature Climate Change, 2023
Potential pension fund losses should not deter high-income countries from bold climate action
Gregor Semieniuk, Lucas Chancel, Eulalie Saïsset, Philip B. Holden, Jean-Francois Mercure, Neil R. Edwards, Joule, 7: 1383–1393, 2023
Income Inequality in Africa: Measurements, Patterns, Determinants
Chancel, L., Cogneau, D., Gethin, A., Myckowski, A. Robilliard, A.-S., World Development, 163: 106-162, 2023.
Why is Europe More Equal than the US?
Blanchet, T., Chancel, L., Gethin, A., American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 14(4): 480-518, 2022.
Global Income Inequality, 1820-2020: The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality
Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Journal of the European Economic Association, 19, pp. 3025–3062, 2021.
Ten facts about inequality in advanced economies
Chancel, L. (2021) in 'Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government's Role', MIT Press (eds. O. Blanchard, D. Rodrik)
Indian Income Inequality, 1922-2015: from British Raj to Billionaire Raj?
Chancel, L., Piketty, T. (2019) Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65, pp. S33-62
Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world
Alvaredo, F., Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E., Zucman, G. (2018) American Economic Review P&P, 2017, 107 (5), pp. 404-09
The Elephant Curve of Global Inequality and Growth
Alvaredo, F., Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E., Zucman, G. (2018) American Economic Association P&P, 108, p. 103-108
Extreme Inequality: Evidence from Brazil, India, the Middle East, and South Africa
L. Assouad, L. Chancel, M. Morgan, American Economic Association P&P, 2018, vol. 108, p. 119-23
Reducing Inequalities within Countries: Assessing the Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals
L. Chancel, A. Hough, T. Voituriez, Global Policy, 2018, vol. 9, p. 5-16
Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Methods and Global Inequality Estimates from WID.world
F. Alvaredo, L. Chancel, T. Piketty, E. Saez, G. Zucman, Economics and Statistics, 2020, vol. 517, p. 41-59
Carbon and Inequality: From Kyoto to Paris
L. Chancel, T. Piketty, World Inequality Lab Study, Paris School of Economics, 2015, 48p.