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Program 2014

Sunday,  January 12,  2014  

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

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

8:40 PM Arrival and dinner

 

 

Monday January 13, 2014  

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome Address

9:00 - 10:30 David de la Croix (IRES & CORE UCLouvain): Inequality and education politics.  Reading List de la Croix, de la Croix lecture 2a, de la Croix lecture2b, de la Croix lecture2c

10:45 - 11:45  Erwin Ooghe (UCL Leuven): Funding higher education: theory and evidence.  Ooghe Reference Paper, Ooghe slides 

 

16:15 – 17:30 Alain Trannoy (EHESS, GREQAM-IDEP) On measuring inequality of opportunity. Trannoy Reference Paper, Trannoy slides

17:45 – 18:45: Rolf Aaberge (Statistics Norway): The distributional impact of public in-kind transfers. Aaberge Reading List

18:45 – 19:45: Alessandro Missale (University of Milano): Public Debt and Inequality.  Missale Reading List, Missale slides

21:30: Social Evening and poster sessions  (pub hotel Miramonti)

 

Final list of posters and presentations

 

Tuesday January 14, 2014

8:30 -10:00: Daniel Waldenström (Uppsala University): Long -run trends in the distribution of income and wealth. Waldenstrom Reading List, Waldenstrom slides

10.15 -11:30: Hans Fehr (University of Wuerzburg): Taxation and inter-intra generational equity. Fehr Reading List, Fehr slides  

 

16:15 – 17:00: Andreas Peichl (University of Mannheim): Taxation, labour supply and income distribution. Peichl Reading ListReference Paper 1 PeichlReference Paper 2 Peichl, Peichl slides 

17:00 – 18:00: André Decoster (UCL Leuven): Using preference information from structural labour supply models when evaluating policies. Decoster Reading List, Decoster Paper, Decoster slides

18:15 – 19:15: Ugo Colombino (University of Turin): Equilibrium simulation with microeconometric models: a new procedure and an application to income support policies. Colombino Reading List, Colombino slides

19:15 - 19:55: Participants presentations

 

 

Wednesday January 15, 2014

8:30 -9:45: Erik Schokkaert (UCL Leuven, CORE): Inequality,  income and well-being.  Schokkaert Reference Paper, Schokkaert slides 

10:00 -11:00: Patrick Moyes (University of Bordeaux, Gretha): Talents, Preferences and Inequality of Well-Being. Moyes Reference Paper, Moyes slides 

11.00 – 12.00:  Kalle Moene (University of Oslo): Economic and political reinforcement. Moene Reading List

 

14:30 – 16:00 Applied Session  Francesco Figari: (University of Insubria, ISER Essex University): EUROMOD: a EU-wide tool for economic analysis Figari Reading List, Figari slides 

16:15 – 17:15 Markus Jäntti (LIS and SOFI Stockholm University): Income mobility. Jantti Reference PaperJantti slides No PausesJantti slides Pauses

17:15 – 18:15 Lorenzo Cappellari (Catholic University of Milan): Correlation of Brothers’ Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission. Cappellari Reference Paper, Cappellari slides 

18:30 – 19:45 Participants presentations

 

Thursday January 16, 2014

8:30 – 9:45 Frank, A. Cowell (LSE) and  Emmanuel Flachaire (GREQAM Marseille): Statistical methods for distributional analysis (Part 1).  Cowell Flachaire Reference PaperCowell Flachaire slides   

10:00 – 11.15 Frank, A. Cowell (LSE) and Emmanuel Flachaire (GREQAM Marseille): Statistical methods for distributional analysis (Part 2). 

11:20 - 11:45: Participants presentations
 

14:30 – 16:00 Applied Session Francesco Andreoli (CEPS INSTEAD) Programming dominance tests for policy evaluations using Stata and Mata. Reading List AndreoliHandout Andreoli, Andreoli slides

16:15 – 17:15 Philippe Van Kerm (CEPS INSTEAD):  Distribution regression methods. Van Kerm Reading ListVan Kerm slides

17:15 – 18:15 Valentino Dardanoni (University of Palermo):  Regressions with missing covariates. Dardanoni Reading ListDardanoni slides 

18:30 - 19:45 Participants presentations

20:15  Social Dinner

 

 

Friday,  January 17,  2014 

8:00 AM Departure of the shuttle bus from Alba di Canazei