Final program of the Third ECINEQ conference.

 

July 21, 2009

 

 

 

 

room

Schedule

 

 

 

9h30-9:45

Auditorio

Welcome Address

 

 

 

 

 

9:45-10:45

Auditorio

Plenary session: Presidential Address: François Bourguignon "State capacity building in elite-dominated societies"

10:45-11:15

coffee break

 

 

 

11:15-12:45

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

102

polarization 1

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Rosa María

GARCÍA-FERNÁNDEZ

Polarization, growth and social policy. The case of Israel, 1997 to 2006

 

 

 

Chairman 

Amedeo

SPADARO

Inequality and Polarization Impact of the European Redistribution Architecture on the Spanish Population: an Analysis Using Microsimulation Techniques

 

 

 

 

 

 

201

development micro-issues

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Giuseppina

GIANFREDA

Market access, organic farming and productivity: the determinants of creation of economic value on a sample of Fair Trade affiliated Thai farmers

 

 

Jan

PRIEBE

Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Paradox of the Lake Victoria Region

 

Chairman 

Carlos

VILLALOBOS

A self selection analysis of employed rural-metropolitan migrants in Paraguay

 

 

 

 

 

 

202

evaluation of public policies 1

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Akli

BERRI

Transport consumption inequalities and redistributive effects of taxes: a repeated cross-sectional evaluation on French household data

 

 

John

BISHOP

Flight Delays and Passenger Preferences: An Axiomatic Approach

 

Chairman 

Rebecca

VALENZUELA

Evaluating the distributional implications of price movements: methodology, application and Australian evidence

 

 

 

 

 

 

212

inequality 1

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

 

 

Ianina

ROSSI

The contribution of government transfer programs to inequality. A net-benefit approach

 

Chairman 

Luiz Guilherme

SCORZAFAVE

Inequality Evolution in Brazil: the Role of Cash Transfer Programs and Other Income Sources

 

 

 

 

 

12:45-14:00

lunch

 

 

 

14:00-15:30

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

102

applied multidimensional poverty

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Jean-Yves

DUCLOS

Multidimensional Poverty Dominance: Statistical Inference and an Application to West Africa

 

 

Maria Emma

SANTOS

Income and Beyond. Multidimensional Poverty in six Latin American countries

 

Chairman 

Andrea

VIGORITO

Multidimensional poverty among children in Uruguay 2004-2006. Evidence from panel data

 

 

 

 

 

 

201

evaluation of public policies 2

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

 

Chairman 

Federico

PERALI

Econometric Identification of the cost of maintaining a child

 

 

 

 

 

 

202

inequality 2

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

 

 

Thomas

DEMUYNCK

An (almost) unbiased estimator for the S-Gini index

 

Chairman 

Koen

DECANCQ

Measuring Well-being Inequality with a Multidimensional Gini Index

 

 

 

 

 

 

212

inequality of opportunities 1

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Gordon

ANDERSON

Qualified Equal Opportunity and Conditional Mobility: Gender Equity and Educational Attainment in Canada

 

 

Juan Gabriel

RODRIGUEZ

Inequality of opportunity and growth

 

Chairman 

Gaston

YALONETZKY

An heterogeneity index for the analysis of (in)equality of opportunity and economic mobility

 

 

 

 

 

15:30-16:00

coffee break

 

 

 

16:00-17:30

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

102

inequality of opportunities 2

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Patrizia

LUONGO

Inequality of opportunity in the Labour Market entry

 

 

Christelle

SAPATA

Inequality of Income and Inequality of Opportunity In Spain

 

Chairman 

Laura

SERLENGA

Income inequality and opportunity inequality in Europe

 

 

 

 

 

 

201

mobility 1

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

Maria

CERVINI

Measuring intergenerational earnings mobility in Spain: a selection-bias free approach

 

 

Julia M.

SCHWENKENBERG

The Black-White Income Mobility Gap and Investment in Children's Human Capital

 

Chairman 

Claudia

VITTORI

Exploring Shorrocks Mobility Indices Using European Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

202

poverty: theory 1

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Gordon

ANDERSON

Boats and Tides and “Trickle Down” Theories: What Stochastic Process Theory has to say about Modelling Poverty, Inequality and Polarization

 

Vito

PERAGINE

Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles

 

Chairman 

Benoit

TARROUX

Robust Normative Comparisons of Socially Risky Situations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

212

intergenerational issues

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Luc

ARRONDEL

"My Father Was Right": The Transmission of Values between Generations

 

 

Martin

SCHUERZ

Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Austria

 

Chairman 

Jacques

SILBER

On the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality in Life Chances in Latin America: A Cardinal Approach

 

 

July 22, 2009

 Schedule

 

 

 

9:45-10:45

Auditorio

Plenary session: Invited Lecture: François Maniquet "Fairness, Inequality and Social Welfare"

10:45-11:15

coffee break

11:15-12:45

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

102

inequality 3

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Jean-Yves

DUCLOS

Multidimensional inequality comparisons

 

 

Andrea

BRANDOLINI

Asset-related measures of poverty and economic stress

 

Chairman 

Oscar

VOLIJ

An axiomatic characterization of the Theil inequality ordering

 

 

 

 

 

 

201

evaluation of public policies 3

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Isis

GADDIS

Social spending and Kenya’s poor: A benefit incidence analysis

 

 

Javier

OLIVERA

A Re-Reform of the Peruvian Pension System: welfare, inequality and financial consequences

 

Chairman 

Andreas

PEICHL

Inequality neutral flat tax reforms in Europe: differences between East and West

 

 

 

 

 

 

202

mobility 2

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Gary

FIELDS

U.S. Earnings Mobility: Comparing Survey-Based and Administrative-Based Estimates

 

 

Hari

NAGARAJAN

The Curse of Location: Investigating Links between Income Mobility, Migration and Location Premium

 

Chairman 

Ana Inés

NAVARRO

Exploring Intergenerational Social Mobility in Argentina

 

 

 

 

 

 

212

poverty: theory 2

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Conchita

D'AMBROSIO

Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: the Generalized Counting Approach

 

 

Mª Casilda

LASSO-DELAVEGA

The Bourguignon and Chakravarty multidimensional poverty family: a characterization

 

Chairman 

Maria Emma

SANTOS

Measuring Chronic Poverty (updated version august 2012)

 

 

 

 

 

12:45-14:00

lunch

 

 

 

14:00-15:30

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

102

inequality 4

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Giovanni Andrea

CORNIA

What explains the recent decline of income inequality in Latin America?

 

 

Leonardo

GASPARINI

Is income inequality in Latin America falling?

 

Chairman 

Francisco

FERREIRA

The Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and an application to Latin America

 

 

 

 

 

 

201

evaluation of public policies 4

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

 

Chairman 

Andrea

VIGORITO

Family Allowances and Child School Attendance. An ex-ante Evaluation of Alternative Schemes in Uruguay

 

 

 

 

 

 

202

poverty: theory 3

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Kristof

BOSMANS

Consistent multidimensional poverty comparisons

 

 

Duangkamon

CHOTIKAPANICH

Calculating Poverty Measures from the Beta Income Distribution

 

Chairman 

Paul

SEGAL

Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend

 

 

 

 

 

 

212

distributional issues

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Josepa

MIQUEL-FLORENSA

Tell me what you need: Signaling with limited resources

 

 

Paolo

VERME

Distributional Change, Reference Groups and the Measurement of Relative Deprivation

 

Chairman 

Roberto

ZELLI

Willing to redistribute? A hierarchical analysis for modelling country-level disparities in individual preferences for redistribution

 

 

 

 

 

15:30-17:00

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

101

inequality 5

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Daniel

CAMÓS

What can we learn from household surveys on inequalities in cooking fuels in sub-Saharan Africa?

 

 

Guillermo

CRUCES

A Distribution in Motion: The Case of Argentina

 

Chairman 

Rosana

PATRON

Early school dropouts in developing countries: An equity issue? The Uruguayan case

 

 

 

 

 

 

201

poverty: theory 4

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

 

 

 

Chairman 

Martin

LEITES

Poverty Traps: concepts and measures. New evidence on income dynamics in Uruguay

 

 

 

 

 

 

202

poverty: empirical applications 1

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Timm

BÖNKE

The German spatial poverty divide: poorly endowed or bad luck?

 

 

 

Chairman 

Andreas

PEICHL

Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

212

educational issues

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Janneke

PIETERS

Education and Inequality in India: A Microeconometric Decomposition Analysis

 

 

Gabriel

ROMERO

Public financing of tertiary education: Does the brain drain exacerbate the reverse distribution of income?

 

Chairman 

Maximo

ROSSI

The impact of teenage childbearing on educational outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

17:00-17:30

coffee break

 

 

 

17:30-19:00

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

102

poverty: empirical applications 2

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Fernando

GROISMAN

Informality and Poverty: Are these Processes Dynamically Interrelated? The case of Argentina

 

Carola

PESSINO

Efficiency and Equity Considerations of the Tax Structure in Argentina, Brazil and Chile: Analysis and Policy Considerations

 

Chairman 

Panos

TSAKLOGLOU

Once poor, always poor? Do initial conditions matter? Evidence from the ECHP

 

 

 

 

 

 

201

political economy of redistribution

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Jenny

DE FREITAS

Inequality, the politics of redistribution and the tax-mix

 

 

Rafael

SALAS

Popular Support for Egalitarian Social Welfare

 

Chairman 

Luis

ZEMBORAIN

Redistribution as a public good: an evolutive model of voluntary redistribution

 

212

polarization 2

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Abdelkrim

ARAAR

On the decomposition of polarization indices: Illustrations with Chinese and Nigerian household surveys

 

 

Cristina

BLANCO-PEREZ

Polarisation and health

 

Chairman 

Ambra

POGGI

On Polarization and Mobility: A look at polarization in the wage-career profile in Italy

 

 

 

 

 

July 23, 2009

 Schedule

 

9:45-10:45

Auditorio

Plenary session: Invited Lecture: Gary Fields "Earnings Mobility in Developing Countries"

10:45-11:15

coffee

 

 

 

11:15-12:45

 

Parallel sessions

 

 

 

102

inequality 6

 

 

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Gabriella

BERLOFFA

Inequality across cohorts of households: evidence from Italy

 

Chairman 

Jérémie

GIGNOUX

Inequalities in Educational Achievement: Measurement and Evidence from the Programme International of Students’ Assessments

 

 

Manos

MATSAGANIS

Distributional implications of tax evasion in Greece

 

201

social interactions

 

 

 

 

 

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Blanca

ZULUAGA

Quality of Social networks and educational investment decisions

 

Chairman 

María Ana

LUGO

Social interactions and school achievement in Argentina

 

 

 

202

public finance and growth

 

 

 

 

 

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Facundo Luis

CROSTA

Capture sequence: marginal incidence for public expenditure

 

 

Simone

D'ALESSANDRO

Agricultural Institutions, Industrialization and Growth: The Case of New Zealand and Uruguay in 1870-1940

 

Chairman

Grigoris

ZAROTIADIS

Convergence and Growth Perspectives in the European Union: A case study

 

212

evaluation of public policies 5

 

 

 

 

 

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Rocio

GARCIA-DIAZ

Out of pocket payments impact in Mexico

 

Alina

MACHADO

Female labour supply in Uruguay: evolution and implication. 1981-2006

 

Chairman

Cesar

VARGAS

Who wins and who loses, after redistribution policies in Mexico? Has been solidarity across families?

 

103

wages and skills

 

 

 

 

 

Presenter

 

Title of the Paper

 

 

Charlotte

BARTELS

German male earnings volatility: trends in permanent and transitory income components 1985 to 2004

 

 

Lorenzo

CORSINI

Institutions, Technological Change and the Wage Differentials Between Skilled and Unskilled Workers: Theory and Evidence from Europe

 

Chairman

Joël

HELLIER

Equality, Efficiency and the Skill Gap

12:45-14:00

lunch and end of the conference