Household income growth is lagging behind GDP per capita. This is why
We find that while GDP per capita has outpaced the median in most OECD countries, the US is a clear outlier in the extent of that divergence. Image: REUTERS/Mike Blake
Brian Nolan
Professor of Social Policy and Director of Employment, Equity, and Growth Programme, Institute for New Economic Thinking
Max Roser
Programme Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Stefan Thewissen
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oxford
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