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Program 2026

Preliminary version


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), Flaviana Palmisano (University La Sapienza)

            Norms and implications for social inequalities

08:30 - 08:45   Registration and welcome

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

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

12:10 - 12:35   Posters presentations 1 (5 short presentations):

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"

16:40 - 18:10  Alessandra Fogli (FED Minneapolis) : "TBA"

18:10 - 18:30  Short presentation : "TBA"

18:35 - 19:00   Posters presentations 2 (5 short presentations):

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):

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 (5 short presentations):


21:30 Social Evening: Poster session,  10 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)
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            Room A (second teaching room at first floor) (Chair: Denisa Sologon, LISER)
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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): "TBA"

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

            Room B (main teaching room) (Chair: Vito Peragine, University of Bari)
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            Room A (second teaching room at first floor) (Chair: Paolo Verme, University of Bologna)
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19:30   Social Dinner  - Hotel Alba, Alba di Canazei.

 


Saturday,  January 10,  2026

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