This website contains my economic research and links to my books, covering my time as a professor at the Australian National University and as a member of parliament. My parliamentary website is www.andrewleigh.com.

Academic CV 

While at ANU, I mainted a blog, which is available at previousleigh.wordpress.com (2004-2010)

Spreadsheet of social capital data used in my book Disconnected (UNSW Press, 2010).

Spreadsheet of inequality data used in my book Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia (Black Inc, 2024)

Inequality datasets

• Top income shares for 13 developed countries (paper, data)
• Indonesian top incomes 1920-2004 (paper, data)
• Top income shares for Australia 1921-2007 (paper, updated data)
• Top wealth shares for Australia 1915-2012 (paper, data)
• Male gini coefficients for Australia 1942-2001 (paper, data)
• Hourly wage inequality across US states 1977-2002 (paper, data)
• Household income inequality across US states 1963-2002 (paper, data)
• Andrew Clarkwest’s household income inequality by race across US states 1970-2000 (paper, documentation, data)

Replication is an important aspect of empirical social science. Where possible, I have posted on this website the code and data for all my published research papers.

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