IT4 - Winter School 2009

Frontiers of Economic Inequality

Sunday,  January 11  2009 

5:30 PM Departure of the shuttle bus from the Verona train station

6:00 PM Departure of the shuttle bus from the Verona airport

8:40 PM  Arrival  and dinner

Monday,  January 12  2009  Chair: Daniele Checchi (University of Milan) 

• 8.30 welcome address
  
• 8.45 - 10.30  Marc Fleurbaey: "An introduction to equality of opportunity" reading list Fleurbaey, slides Fleurbaey
  
• 10.45 - 12.15 :  Vito Peragine :"On the measurement of opportunity inequality"  reading list Peragine, slides Peragine
  
• 16:30-18:00:   Arnaud Lefranc: "Equality of opportunity and income mobility"  reading list Lefranc , reference paper 1,  reference paper 2, slides Lefranc
• 18:15 - 19:45: Valentino Dardanoni: "Intergenerational mobility: theory and evidence"  reading list Dardanoni,  reference paper 1, reference paper 2, slides Dardanoni

Tuesday, January 13  2009 Chair: Michel Le Breton (Idei-Gremaq Toulouse School of Economics)

• 8.30-10.00  Rolf Aaberge: "The dual theory of inequality measurement"   Reading list Aaberge, slides Aaberge
• 10.15-11:45 Claudio Zoli: "From unidimensional to multidimensional inequality and well-being evaluations Reading list Zoli , Detailed handout lecture Zoli, slides Zoli
  
• 16:30-18:00 Jacques Silber: "Multidimensional poverty and deprivation" Reading list Silber, slides Silber
• 18:15-19:45 Participants presentations preliminary schedule, slides Lasso, slides Koen Decancq, slides Urrutia

Wednesday, January 14  2009  Chair: Eugenio Peluso (University of Verona)

• 8.30-10:00  Jean-Yves Duclos: "Multidimensional  poverty and inequality"  reading list Duclos, slides Duclos
• 10:15-11:45    Alain Trannoy: "Household Heterogeneity and inequality measurement" reading list Trannoy, slides Trannoy
  

• 16:30-.18:00 Thibault Gajdos: "Aggregation of preferences under uncertainty" reading list Gajdos ; reading material paper Gajdos et al.,  slides Gajdos
  
• 18:15-.20:15 Participants presentations preliminary schedule, slides Ooghe, slides Macculli, slides Urban, slides Esposito
  20:45  SOCIAL DINNER

Thursday, January 15  2009  Chair: Marc Fleurbaey 

• 8.30-10.10  Erik Schokkaert "An introduction to the capabilities approach" reading list Schokkaert, slides Schokkaert
• 10:15-11:45 Paul Anand "Assessing functionings and capabilities" reading list Anand ; Main reference Anand. slides Anand

• 16:30-18:00 Ernesto Savaglio: "On ranking opportunity profiles" Savaglio reading list, detailed handout lecture Savaglio, slides Savaglio
• 18:15- 20:00 Participants presentations  preliminary schedule, slides Calo-Blanco, slides Yuemei Ji, slides Peichl, slides Sapata