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Programme of the Inequality - measurement, trends, impacts, and policies conference
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Friday 5 September 2014 |
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| Europaea - 1st floor | Fennia I - 2nd floor | Nordia - 2nd floor | Nautica - 1st floor | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration 1st floor | |||
| 09:00-10:30 |
Opening welcome Finn Tarp |
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Video clip Amartya Sen |
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Opening keynote Marcelo Côrtes Neri (Minister of Strategic Affairs of Brazil) |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee - 2nd floor foyer | |||
| 11:00-12:30 |
Parallel 1.1
INVITED 1 |
Parallel 1.2
MIDDLE CLASSES AND POLARIZATION |
Parallel 1.3
THE POOREST AND MOST EXCLUDED |
Parallel 1.4
THEORETICAL APPROACHES |
| Andrew Berg: Redistribution, inequality, and growth | Alice Krozer: The inequality we want: How much is too much? | Christoffer Sonne-Schmidt, Finn Tarp, and Lars Peter Østerdal: Ordinal bivariate inequality: Concepts and application to child deprivation in Mozambique | Guido Erreygers and Roselinde Kessels: A unified structural equation modeling approach for the decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health | |
| François Bourguignon: 15 years of progress in understanding income inequality | Khalid Abu-Ismail and Niranjan Sarangi: Rethinking the measurement of the middle class: evidence from Egypt | Sabina Alkire, Adriana Conconi, and Suman Seth: Measuring destitution in developing countries: An ordinal approach for identifying linked subset of multidimensionally poor | Christophe Muller: Social welfare comparisons with fourth-order utility derivatives | |
| Andrew Dabalen, Fabio Clementi, Vasco Molini, and Francesco Schettino: The center cannot hold: Patterns of polarization in Nigeria | Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi: Intrahousehold inequalities in child rights and wellbeing. A barrier to progress? | Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Matti Tuomala, and Tuuli Ylinen: Optimal taxation and public good provision for poverty minimization | ||
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch – Europaea foyer 1st floor | |||
| 13:30-15:30 |
Parallel 2.1
INVITED 2 |
Parallel 2.2
SPECIAL SESSION ON SOUTH AFRICA 1 |
Parallel 2.3
COUNTRY EXPERIENCES |
Parallel 2.4
BEHAVIOURAL FOUNDATIONS |
| Andrea Cornia: Inequality in Latin America: Recent decline and conditions for its further reduction | Arden Finn, David Lam, and Murray Leibbrandt: Schooling inequality, returns to schooling, and earnings inequality: Evidence from Brazil and South Africa | Chetan Ghate, Gerhard Glomm, and John T. Stone: Public and private expenditures on human capital accumulation in India | Hayford M. Ayerakwa, Robert D. Osei, and Isaac Osei-Akoto: Poverty and happiness: An examination of the factors influencing happiness among the extreme poor in rural Ghana | |
| Tony Shorrocks: New methods for estimating the level and trend of income and wealth inequality | Joshua Greenstein: New patterns of structural change and effects on inclusive development: A case study of South Africa and Brazil | Michael Grimm, Aude Nikiema, and Claude Wetta: Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian Trap | Tanguy Bernard, Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse: The future in mind: Aspirations and forward-looking behaviour in rural Ethiopia | |
| David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and Reinhard Schiel: Assessing the impact of social grants on inequality: A South African case study | Andrew McKay: High inequality in the heart of Africa: The case of Rwanda | Mariano Rojas: Relative income and subjective well-being in Latin America: Implications for poverty and inequality debates | ||
| Murray Leibbrandt and Martin Wittenberg: Measuring inequality by asset indices: The case of South Africa | Dhairiyarayar Jayaraj and Sreenivasan Subramanian: Growth and inequality in the distribution of India’s consumption expenditure: 1983—2009-10 | Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Zoya Nissanov, and Jacques Silber: On Inequality and Poverty Line. Making the poverty line dependent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee - 2nd floor foyer | |||
| 16:00-18:00 |
Journal of Economic Inequality panel: Appraising World Income Inequality Databases Chair: Tony Shorrocks |
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| Nora Lustig: Appraising world income inequality databases: An overview | ||||
| Andrea Brandolini: Appraising the world top incomes database | ||||
| François Bourguignon: Appraising income inequality databases in Latin America: CEPAL and SEDLAC | ||||
| Stephen Jenkins: World income inequality databases: An assessment of WIID and SWIID | ||||
| Discussant: Markus Jäntti | ||||
| 19:00-21:30 | Conference reception – Europaea foyer 1st floor | |||
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Saturday 6 September 2014 |
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| Europaea - 1st floor | Fennia I - 2nd floor | Nordia - 2nd floor | Nautica - 1st floor | |
| 08:30-10:30 |
Parallel 3.1
INVITED 3 |
Parallel 3.2
SPECIAL SESSION ON SOUTH AFRICA 2 |
Parallel 3.3
THE IMPACT OF POLICIES ON INEQUALITY |
Parallel 3.4
MOBILITY |
| Peter Lanjouw and Hai-Anh Dang: Welfare dynamics measurement: Two definitions of a vulnerability line and their empirical application | Andrew Kerr, Patrizio Piraino, and Vimal Ranchhod: Estimating the size and impact of affirmative action in South African higher education | Nauro Ferreira Campos and Jeffrey B. Nugent: What explains the rigidity of labor regulations across countries and over time? The roles of structural reforms, growth and inequality | Liliana Cano: Income mobility in Ecuador, new evidence from individual income tax returns | |
| Jim Davies: Global wealth distribution: Recent evidence | Rulof P. Burger and C. Friedrich Kreuser: Unequal partners: The determinants and consequences of intra-household inequality in South Africa | Mausumi Kar and Saibal Kar: Liberalized Trade Policy and Inequality: Evidence from post-MFA India and some theoretical issues | Dante Contreras, Jorge Rodriguez, and Sergio Urzúa: On the origins of inequality in Chile | |
| Miquel Pellicer, Patrizio Piraino, and Eva Wegner: The role of information and mobilization for redistributive preferences: A survey experiment in South Africa | David Castells-Quintana and José María Larrú: Does aid reduce inequality? Evidence for Latin America | Sowmya Dhanaraj: Health shocks and inter-generational transmission of inequality: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India | ||
| Laura Rossouw: Poor health reporting: Do poor South Africans underestimate their health needs? | Sabina Alkire and James E. Foster: Evaluating dimensional and distributional contributions to multidimensional poverty | Sonia Bhalotra, Kenneth Harttgen, and Stephan Klasen: The impact of school fees on the intergenerational transmission of education | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee - 2nd floor foyer | |||
| 11:00-12:30 |
Parallel 4.1
INVITED 4 |
Parallel 4.2
DYNAMICS |
Parallel 4.3
NEW APPROACHES TO MEASUREMENT |
Parallel 4.4
INEQUALITY, GENDER AND NUTRITION |
| Joel Slemrod: The role of tax systems in generating and restraining inequality | Francis Menjo Baye: Impact of education on inequality along the wage distribution profile in Cameroon: 2005-2010 | Robert Duval-Hernández, Gary S. Fields, and George H. Jakubson: Analyzing income distribution changes: Anonymous versus panel income approaches | Sarah Gultom, M. Firman Hidayat, Fajar Rakhmadi, Asep Suryahadi, Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin, and Athia Yumna: Inequality and stability in democratic and decentralized Indonesia | |
| Michael Keen: Equity objectives and puzzles in the linking of tax and spending measures | Ira N. Gang, Ksenia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, and Myeong-Su Yun: Poverty and inequality dynamics | Rocio Garcia-Diaz and Daniel Prudencio: On the dynamics of multidimensional chronic poverty | Richard Mussa: Food price heterogeneity and income inequality in Malawi: Is inequality underestimated? | |
| Patrizia Luongo: Inequality of opportunity in educational achievements: Cross-country and intertemporal comparisons | Paul Anand, Gordon Anderson, Alastair Gray, Laurence Roope, and Teng Wah Leo: New approaches to the measurement of progress | Blessing M. Chiripanhura and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa: The redistributive effects of social protection programmes in Namibia | ||
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch – Europaea foyer 1st floor | |||
| 13:30-15:30 |
Parallel 5.1
PROGRESS IN DATA AND MEASUREMENT |
POSTER SESSION - 2nd floor foyer |
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| James K. Galbraith, Béatrice Halbach, Aleksandra Malinowska, Amin Shams, and Wenjie Zhang: The UTIP global inequality data sets 1963-2008: Updates, revisions and quality checks | ||||
| Arjun Jayadev, Rahul Lahoti, and Sanjay G. Reddy: The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An introduction and preliminary findings | ||||
| Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Laurence Roope, and Finn Tarp: Global interpersonal inequality: Trends and measurement | ||||
| David E. Sahn and Stephen D. Younger: The incidence of recent child health improvements | ||||
| 13:30-15:30 |
Poster session - 2nd floor foyer Chair: Channing Arndt |
| Shiva Raj Adhikari and Nephil M. Maskay: Inclusive growth experiences–the case of Nepal: A discussion on a paradox from conventional and holistic perspectives | |
| Therese F. Azeng: Does political inequality lead to political instability? Case study of selected developing countries | |
| Gargi Bhattacharya Das and Sushil K. Haldar: Reproductive health inequality in India at sub-national level: Trend, differential and determinants | |
| Paolo Brunori, Flaviana Palmisano, and Vito Peragine: The redistributive impact of growth on opportunities in Uganda | |
| Carla Canelas and Silvia Salazar: Gender and ethnic inequalities in LAC countries | |
| Blessing M. Chiripanhura, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Hileni N. Kalimbo: The dynamics of poverty and inequality in Namibia: A critical evaluation of the development plans | |
| M. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury: Does access to finance reduce inequality? Evidence from Bangladesh | |
| Chika Ezeanya: Home-grown and grassroots based strategies for determining inequality towards policy action: Rwanda’s Ubudehe approach in perspective | |
| Jutta Bolt and Ellen Hillbom: Changing income inequality and structural transformation: The case of Botswana 1936-2010 | |
| Jean Joël Ambagna, Gwladys Laure Mabah Tene, and Gilles Quentin Kane: The impact of food price volatility on consumer welfare in Cameroon | |
| Vincent Leyaro: Threshold and interaction-effects in the trade, growth and inequality relationship | |
| Kristi Mahrt and Malokele Nanivazo: A spatial and temporal analysis of women’s wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo | |
| Leena Kalliovirta and Tuomas Malinen: Nonlinearity and cross-country dependence of income inequality | |
| Susan Namirembe Kavuma: Private returns to education for wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda | |
| Yawo Agbényégan Noglo: Monetary inequality among households in Togo: An illustration based on the decomposition of the gini coefficient using the shapley value approach | |
| Smriti Sharma: Hate crimes and economic status: Evidence from castes in India | |
| Katharina Trapp: Measuring the labor share in developing countries: Challenges, solutions, and trends | |
| Elina Tuominen: Reversal of the Kuznets curve: Study on the inequality–development relation using top income shares data | |
| Sui Yang: Rural household income mobility in transitional China: Evidence from CHIP |
| Europaea - 1st floor | ||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee - 2nd floor foyer | |||
| 16:00-17:30 |
Closing panel: Chair: Finn Tarp Video clip: Kim Young-mok (KOICA) Panellists: President Tarja Halonen, Joel Khathu Netshitenzhe, Annika Sundén, and James E. Foster |
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