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Trends in income inequality and educational attainment in the United States, 1940–2014. Educational attainment data are for men and women aged 25 and older and are derived from the Current Population Survey (https://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/historical/); the income inequality measure represents the share of income claimed by the top 10% of earners (http://www.wid.world/).
