Preliminary Program 2017
Sunday, January 8, 2017
17:30 Departure of the shuttle bus from Verona railway station (train station Porta Nuova)
18:00 Departure of the shuttle bus from Verona airport (Catullo airport)
20:40 Arrival and dinner
Monday January 9, 2017
08:45 - 9:00 Welcome Address
09:00 - 10:30 Clemens Puppe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): "Resource allocation via the median rule" Reading list Puppe, Reference paper1, Reference paper 2, slides Puppe
10:45 - 11:45 Eugenio Peluso (University of Verona): "Politically sustainable targeting" slides Peluso
15:15 - 15:45 Anthony Atkinson legacy: a tribute to Professor Sir Anthony B. Atkinson
15:50 - 17:20 Frank Cowell (LSE-STICERD, London): "Attitudes to equality and mobility" Reading List Cowell, slides Cowell
17:30 - 19:00 Daniele Checchi (University of Milan, LIS): "Education policy and inequality" slides Checchi
19:00 - 19:50 Presentations
- Daniel Mahler: Equality of opportunity for well-being
- Mikkel Høst Gandil: Intergenerational mobility or gender inequality - Investigating the Spearman correlation coefficient
21:30 Social Evening/Poster Session (pub hotel Miramonti)
- Astrid Harnack: On the evolution of inheritance and wealth: Germany 1962 – 2013
- Paul Hufe: Equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
- Vincenzo Prete: Non welfarist optimal income taxation for inequality and polarization reduction
- Ivan Rubinić: Economic inequality and exploitation
- Nathalie Scholl: An index of inter-industry wage inequality: trends, comparisons, and robustness
Tuesday January 10, 2017
08:30 - 10:00 Miles Corak (University of Ottawa): "Divided landscapes of economic opportunity: The Canadian geography of intergenerational income mobility" Reading List Corak
10:15 – 11:30 Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica Milan): “Family, community and long term earnings inequality” Cappellari Reference Paper, slides Cappellari
11:30 - 12:20 Presentations
- Francesco Andreoli: So close yet so unequal. Reconsidering spatial inequality in US cities
- Thomas Wouters: Determinants of school segregation in Flanders
16:00 – 17:30 David Albouy (University of Illinois): "Urban quality of life and housing affordability" Reading list Albouy, slides Albouy
17:45 – 19:00 Alain Trannoy (GREQAM-IDEP Marseille): "Redistributive taxation and land" Abstract and Reading List Trannoy, slides Trannoy
19:00 – 19:50 Presentations
- Umut Turk: Income inequality of opportunity in Sweden:a spatial perspective
- Philipp Poppitz: Can subjective data improve inequality measurement? A multidimensional index of economic inequality
Wednesday January 11, 2017
08:30 - 10:00 Nathaniel Baum-Snow (University of Toronto): "Wage inequality and cities" Reading list Baum-Snow, slides Baum-Snow
10:15 - 11:30 Paolo Naticchioni (University of Roma Tre): "Real urban wage premium and inequalities" Reading List Naticchioni
11:30 - 12:20 Presentations
- Holger Lüthen: Lifetime income and the Welfare State in Germany
- Carla Krolage: Reassessing top income trends in the United States: the role of population and productivity growth
16:00 – 17:15 Jørn Rattsø (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): "Education, private-public work experience, and the urban wage premium" Reading list Rattsø, slides Rattsø
17.30 - 18.45 Rolf Aaberge (Statistics Norway): "The distributional impact of public services in Europe" slides Aaberge
18:55 – 19:45 Presentations
- Yasna Cortés: The effect of local public services on spatial income inequality: an application for Chile
- Anja Gaentzsch: The redistributive impact of social spending in Peru: An incidence analysis
Thursday January 12, 2017
08:30 – 10:00 Francisco Ferreira (World Bank): "Equality of opportunity: theory, evidence and some future directions" Reading list Ferreira, slides Ferreira
10.15 - 11:30 Vito Peragine (University of Bari): "Equality of opportunity and policy preferences in transition economies" Reading list Peragine, slides Peragine
11:40 – 12:30 Presentations
- Paolo Brunori: Upward and downward bias when measuring inequality of opportunity
- Maria Lucia Pace: Testing inequality of opportunity within the ANOVA framework: the case of Italy
15:45 - 17:15 Iñaki Permanyer (UAB Barcelona): "Multidimensional poverty: theory and empirical evidence" Reading List Permanyer, slides Permanyer
17:30 - 19:35 Presentations
- Gabriela Zapata Román: Evolution of inequality of opportunity in Chile
- Samuel Tetteh-Baah: Measures of horizontal inequality across developing countries
- Elisa Pagani: Multidimensional risk aversion: the cardinal sin
- Gintare Mazeikaite: Decomposing health inequality in the EU
- Arip Muttaqien: Understanding the differences in welfare distribution between India and Indonesia
20:15 Social Dinner
Friday, January 13, 2017
07:45 Departure of the shuttle bus from Alba di Canazei