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Program 2026




Tuesday,  January 6,  2026  

16:00 Departure of the shuttle bus from Verona railway station (train station Porta Nuova)

16:15 Departure of the shuttle bus from Verona airport (Catullo airport)

19:30 Arrival and dinner




Wednesday, January 7, 2026 (Chairs: Eugenio Peluso (LISER), Denisa Sologon (LISER))

            Norms and implications for social inequalities

08:30 - 08:45   Registration and welcome

08:45 - 10:15   Johanna Mollerstrom (George Mason University) : "Meritocratic fairness preferences"

10:35 - 12:05   Fabrizio Perri (FED Minneapolis) : "Inflation and the distribution of resources"

12:10 - 12:30   Posters presentations 1 (5 short presentations): 

  • Jakob Dirksen (LSE) "Are Subjective Well-Being Measures ’Evaluative’ ?"
  • Maria Cristina D'Aguanno (University of Luxembourg) "The Hidden Effects of Social Insurance: A comparative analysis of tax-benefits systems across European countries"
  • Wouter Van de Moer (Antwerp University) "How clustered are disadvantages among older Europeans? Evidence from SHARE"
  • Giulio Albano (University of Bari) "Extending the Absolute Poverty Line: A Territorial-Compensatory Approach Incorporating Regional Differences in Public Service Provision "
  • Gabrielle Chassagne (University of Montpellier) "Fairness ideals in the presence of an externality"

14:15 - 15:45  Laboratory Session: Lidia Ceriani (University of Verona) : "Using the Forbes Billionaires List as a Research Dataset: Methods, Challenges, and Insights on the Global Super-Rich"

16:00 - 16:30  Teresa Munzi (LIS), Philippe Varn Kerm (University of Luxembourg) : "Comparative survey data on wealth from the Luxembourg Wealth Study"

16:30 - 18:00  Alessandra Fogli (FED Minneapolis) : "Investigating the American Dream: the Role of Neighborhoods"

18:00 - 18:20  Posters presentations 2 (5 short presentations):

  • Ana Montes (LISER) "Unified Framework for Microsimulation and Nowcasting of Inequality Across Countries, Time, and Space."
  • Ana Muñoz Fernández (University of Malaga) "Municipal income convergence and territorial inequality in malaga: a micro-decomposition and spatial cluster analysis (2015–2023)"
  • Rocco Caferra (University of Bari) "Social interactions,  Preferences and Public Choices"
  • Ashagrie Demile (IFC) "The effect of FDI on wage inequality in a developing country: The case of Ethiopia”
  • Sylwia Radomska (INEPAN) "Tuition, Debt, and the Wealth: The Hidden Insurance Role of Education Finance"


18:30 - 19:15  Presentations (two parallel sessions, 15 mins each)

            Room B (main teaching room) (Chair: Marcello Puca, University of Salerno)
  • Kun Lee (LISER and LIS) "A fragile social contract: Attitudes towards an unpopular pension reform in South Korea"
  • Francesco Berlingieri (JRC) "Relative Income Misperceptions: Cross-Country Patterns in Europe"
  • Federico Scalese (LISER) "Wealth origins and asset composition: experimental evidence on taxation preference


            Room A (second teaching room at first floor) (Chair: Ernesto Savaglio, University of Chieti-Pescara)
  • Francisco García (Universitad de Alcalà) "Progressivity and Redistribution of Wealth Taxation in Spain: a Microsimulation Analysis using Tax Register Data"
  • Joël Bühler (University of Barcelona) "Capital and Labor Income Mobility"
  • Oliver Schlenker (ifo Institute) "Organized Labor Versus Robots? Evidence from Micro Data"


21:30 Social Evening: Poster session,  10 posters.

Thursday January 8,  2026 (Chairs: Paolo Brunori (LSE and University of Florence), Arnaud Lefranc (CY Cergy Paris University))

             Social mobility and its determinants: Evidence from historic data

08:45 - 10:15   Jan Stuhler (Universitad Carlos III de Madrid) : "Intergenerational Mobility and Multiplicity: Evidence from Surnames"

10:35 - 11:35   Frank Cowell (London School of Economics) : "Families, inheritance and inequality"

11:40 - 12:00   Posters presentations 3 (5 short presentations):

  • Kyra Sadovi (University of Chicago) "All Aboard? Causal Evidence on Labor-Market Effects of New Rail Stations"
  • Paolo Tartarelli (University of Macerata) "Can Firms Lift the Working Poor? Insights from Europe"
  • Riccardo Casullo (Sapienza University of Rome) "An Open Wound: Measuring Scarring Effects in Italy"
  • Federico Fiorani (LISER) "XXX"
  • Vincenzo Prete (University of Palermo) "Intergenerational Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Palermo"

14:15 - 15:45  Laboratory Session: Andrea Del Pizzo (Universitad Carlos III de Madrid): "How to implement and interpret name-based estimators of intergenerational mobility"


16:00 - 17:30   Neil Cummins (London School of Economics) :  "Inequality and Social Mobility: Long Run Evidence "

17:45 - 18:30   Alain Trannoy (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) :  "Land wealth, taxation and redistribution"

18:30 - 19:00   Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg) :  "Housing and well-being"

19:05 - 19:20   Posters presentations 4 (4 short presentations):

  • Giorgia Zotti (University of Bari) "Measuring Opportunity Pluralism: A Mixture Model Estimation Approach"
  • Brenda Adiwijaya (University of Insubria) "Balancing Cultural Heritage and Integration: Childcare Decisions Among Second Generation Immigrants in Europe"
  • Alessia Bellomo (University of Bari) " Inequality of Opportunity in Non-Durable Goods Consumption"
  • Giulio Giuseppe Colazzo (University of Bari) "Cyclical and trend dynamics"


21:30 Social Evening: Poster session, 9 posters.







Friday January 9, 2026 (Chairs: Roberto Iacono (NTNU), Eva Sierminska (LISER))

            Genes-environment interactions and inequalities

08:30 - 09:30   Rafael Ahlskog (Uppsala University) : "It's a spiderweb, not a dichotomy! Gene-Environment Correlations and Social Inequality"  Reading list   

09:30 - 10:30   Paul Hufe (University of Bristol) : "The genetic lottery goes to school: gene-environment interactions in the school context"    Reading list 

10:50 - 11:35   Giorgia Menta (LISER) : "Epigenetic clocks and human capital"

11:40 - 12:25  Presentations (15 mins each)

            Room B (main teaching room) (Chair: Claudio Zoli, University of Verona )
  • Miguel Parra (Universidad de Alcalà) "Is Chronicity Growing? Exploring Intertemporal Poverty in the EU over Three Decades"
  • Lukas Leitner (University of Antwerp) "Towards a Micro-Founded Framework for Measuring Human Development"
  • Alexandre Jacquemain (UC Louvain) "Measuring Explained Inequality with Lorenz Regression: A Unified Framework for Income and Educational Opportunity"

            Room A (second teaching room at first floor) (Chair: Francesco Andreoli, University of Verona and LISER)
  • Louis Sirugue (LSE) "Intergenerational Income Mobility around the World: A Meta-Analysis"
  • Moritz Hörl (WU Vienna) "The Landscape of Opportunity: Nonparametric Evidence on Heterogeneous Social Mobility"
  • Taylan Alpkaya (University of Mannheim) "Legacy of Servitude: Long-Run Intergenerational Mobility in the US"


14:15 - 15:45  Laboratory Session: Aurelius Noble (LSE and Transkribus) and Noah Sutter (LSE) : Automated Transcription of Structured Handwritten Documents: An Introduction to Deep Learning Methods


16:00 - 17:30   Emilia Del Bono (University of Essex) :  “Socio-Emotional Skills and their contribution to the transmission of economic advantage”

17:45 - 18:30  Maurizio Bussolo (World Bank): "Mobility in changing societies"

18:30 - 19:15  Presentations (15 mins each)

            Room B (main teaching room) (Chair: Vito Peragine, University of Bari)
  • Alejandro Puerta Cuartas (UC3M) "Nonparametric Identification and Locally Robust Estimation of Intergenerational Income Mobility Measures"
  • Pedro Torres (LSE) "Estimating Intergenerational Mobility Using Survey Data: A Machine Learning Approach"
  • Noah Sutter (LSE) "Surnames and Distinction: Multi-outcome Social Mobility Estimates for French Elites (1791-1902), Testing a Bourdieuian Interpretation of the Latent Factor Model"


            Room A (second teaching room at first floor) (Chair: Paolo Verme, University of Bologna)
  • Martina Pezer (Institute of Public Finance) "Beyond the Modified OECD Scale: Demand-Based Equivalence Scales and the Cost-of-Living Crisis in Europe"
  • Martina Pardy (LSE) "Climate impacts on material wealth inequality: Global evidence from a subnational dataset"
  • Leander Andres (ifo Institute) "Birthright Citizenship and Youth Crime"


 19:30   Social Dinner  - Hotel Alba, Alba di Canazei.

 




Saturday,  January 10,  2026

07:45   Departure of the shuttle bus from Alba di Canazei