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7th ECINEQ Meeting

The Graduate Center,

City University of New York

New York City,

July 17-19, 2017

PROGRAMME

The papers presentations for each day are organized in 3 sets of parallel sessions (8-9 Rooms) of 1 hour and 30 minutes; each parallel session will include 3 papers (30 minutes per presentation including discussion). The last speaker of each session will act as chair and timekeeper of the session.

Monday, July 17 2017

8h30 9h30 Registration

9h30 11h00 Parallel Sessions (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, …, 1.8)

11h00 11h30 Coffee Break


13h00 14h30 Lunch

13h30 14h30 Meeting ECINEQ Council + Executive Committee



16h30 17h30 Institutional Welcome with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Paul Krugman

17h30 19h00 Keynote Lecture Peter H. Lindert

Tuesday, July 18 2017




12h30 14h00 Lunch

13h00 14h00 Meeting Editorial Board of Journal of Economic Inequality

14h00 15h00 Stone Lecture on Wealth Inequality by Gabriel Zucman



17h15 18h45 Keynote Lecture Marc Fleurbaey

Wednesday, July 19 2017




12h30 13h30 Lunch

13h30 14h30 Joseph Stiglitz plenary lecture



16h15 17h45 Keynote Lecture Frank Cowell

17h45 18h45 ECINEQ General Assembly

19h30 23h00 Gala Dinner in Honor of Sir Tony Atkinson Hosted by Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality &

Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

GENERAL INFORMATION Conference Venue All sessions will be held at: The Graduate Center, City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York

Conference participants should wear their conference badge at all times and carry a photo ID. We ask that participants avoid areas of the building that are not part of the conference.

Transportation to Conference Venue Located on Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets, the building is two blocks east of Penn Station, one block east of Herald Square, and two blocks west of the 33rd Street and Park Avenue station. The closest subway station, located at 34th Street and Avenue of the Americas, is served by the B, D, F, N, R, and Q trains.

Penn Station is served at Seventh Avenue by the 1, 2, 3, as well as the A, C, and E lines at the Eighth Avenue station one block west. Detailed information on bus and subway transport in New York City can be found in the maps provided in the conference packet and at the website of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Gala Dinner Hosted by The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality & the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

The Gala Dinner will take place on July 19 from 19h30-23h00, at the Bryant Park Grill (25 W 40th St), located in the center of Bryant Park. The dinner is in honor of Tony Atkinson and commemorative remarks will be offered by Joseph Stiglitz at 20h00. An invitation is included in your conference packet.

The Grill is an 8-minute walk from the Graduate Center. Walking north on Fifth Avenue, the restaurant will be behind the New York Public Library, in the park. Enter through the main entrance.

Subway stations 42 St–Bryant Park (served by B/D/F/M), Times Square–42 St (served by N/Q/R/W/1/2/3/7), and Grand Central Station (served by 4/5/6/7/S) are in the vicinity.

Registered conference participants are welcome to attend the gala dinner. For additional guests, contact [email protected]. Additional tickets are $150 each, and may be paid in check or cash.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Conference Layout Conference Panels will be held on the Concourse level (C-level) and 9th floor.

Rooms that start with C are on the C-level. Rooms that start with 9 are on the 9th floor.

ECINEQ Institutional meetings will be held in Room 8301 on the 8th floor.

Plenaries will be held in the Proshansky Auditorium on the C-level.

Registration will be located in the entrance to the Proshansky Lobby on C-Level.

Coffee and lunch breaks will be located in the Proshansky Lobby on C-level. Additional seating is available in rooms C198, C201, and C202.

Publishers book display and Coat Check is located in room C197.

A map of the building is located at the end of this document.

Computer & Wifi Access Wifi is provided by the Graduate Center through the “GCguest” wireless network. Computers and Printers are available in Computer Lab C196.02.

Computer Lab C196.02 is accessed through the Library. Go to the ground floor and enter the library with your conference badge. Once in the library, take stairs or elevator to lower level, turn left, and room will be designated with an ECINEQ flyer.

The library is used by students in the summer, please avoid engaging in conversation while walking through the library. A conference volunteer will be in the lab to assist with any technical issues or questions.

Information Conference volunteers are present to assist with basic technical and administrative issues.

They will be wearing “I ♥ NY” conference t-shirts and name badges with a blue ribbon. Please note that conference volunteers can only offer basic technical support. If required, they will alert tech support or the other personnel for assistance.

For information or first aid, visit the registration desk located in the Proshansky Lobby. If there is an emergency that requires immediate attention, call 212-817-777 (Security) or 911 (Emergency dispatch service) and alert a conference volunteer as soon as possible.

Hours Date Monday, July 17 Tuesday, July 19 Wednesday, July 20

Registration 8h30-18h 8h30-17h45 8h30-16h30

Book Display 8h30-18h 8h30-17h45 8h30-16h30

Coat Check 830h-19h30 830h-19h30 830h-19h30

Computer Lab 9h00-16h00 9h00-16h00 9h00-16h00

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ECINEQ 2017

Keynote Lectures

ECINEQ Keynote Lecture Monday, July 17, 17h30-19h00, Proshansky Auditorium

Peter Lindert, University of California – Davis

“The Rise and Future of Progressive Redistribution”

ECINEQ Keynote Lecture Tuesday, July 18, 17h15-18h45, Proshansky Auditorium

Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University

“Inequalities, Social Justice and the Web of Social Interactions”

ECINEQ Keynote Lecture Wednesday, July 19, 16h15-17h45, Proshansky Auditorium

Frank Cowell, London School of Economics

“Inheritance, Inequality and the Idle Rich”

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ECINEQ 2017

Institutional Welcome & Plenaries

Institutional Welcome Monday, July 17, 16h30-17h30, Proshansky Auditorium

Remarks by Janet Gornick, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Followed by a conversation between Mayor Bill de Blasio

and Paul Krugman, The Graduate Center

The Stone Lecture on Wealth Inequality Tuesday, July 18, 14h00-15h00, Proshansky Auditorium

Gabriel Zucman, University of Berkeley “Tax Evasion and Inequality”

Plenary Lecture

Wednesday, July 19, 13h30-14h30, Proshansky Auditorium

Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University

“A Simple Model of Wealth Inequality and the Role of Capital Taxation in Overcoming It”

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LIST OF SESSIONS

Session 1.1, Monday July 17th 09:30-11:00 Room 9207

1. New evidence on the relationship between inequality and health,

Jaesang Sung, Qihua Qiu, James Marton

2. Ranking countries in terms of health inequality of opportunity in Europe,

Paolo Brunori, Caterina Francesca Guidi

3. Decomposing health inequality in the EU,

Mazeikaite Gintare, O'Donoghue Cathal, Denisa Sologon

Session 1.2, Monday July 17th 09:30-11:00 Room C204

1. Composite indices, alternative weights, and comparison robustness,

Suman Seth, Mark McGillivray

2. Comparing approaches to the measurement of multidimensional child poverty,

Lisa Hjelm, Lucia Ferrone, Sudhanshu Handa, Yekaterina Chzhen

3. Can subjective data improve inequality measurement? A multidimensional index of

economic inequality,

Philipp Poppitz

Session 1.3, Monday July 17th 09:30-11:00 Room C415A

1. Globalization and income inequality revisited,

Florian Dorn, Clemens Fuest, Niklas Potrafke

2. Explaining income inequality trends in countries: an integrated approach,

Petra Sauer, Narasimha D. Rao, Shonali Pachauri

3. The distributive impact of terms of trade shocks,

Maurizio Bussolo, Patrizia Luongo


1. Intergenerational aspirations, capital dilution, and the dynamics of inequality,

Bassel Tarbush, Francis Dennig

2. Dynamic interactions in human capital development - parents, places and the persistence of

inequality,

Julia Schwenkenberg

3. The impact of non-classical measurement error on inequality and mobility. Evidence from

Italy,

Irene Brunetti, Davide Fiaschi

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1. The paradox of the Joneses: superstar houses and mortgage frenzy in suburban America,

Clement Bellet

2. Network defect: wealth inequality, network topology and financial crisis,

Thomas Hauner

3. Income inequality and redistribution in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 crisis: the US case,

Vanda Almeida


1. The vulnerability of households to poverty in Peru, 2004-2014,

Javier Herrera, Angelo Cozzubo

2. Economic insecurity in Spain: a multidimensional analysis,

Marina Romaguera de la Cruz

3. Poverty transitions without panel data? An appraisal of synthetic panel methods,

David Garces Urzainqui


1. Informal transfers, equity and inequality: exploring the role of inter-household transfers in

comparisons of monetary welfare and its distribution,

Yixia Cai, Martin Evans

2. Household inequality and remittances in rural Thailand: a lifecycle perspective,

Rashaad Shabab, Richard Disney, Andy McKay

3. Income hiding and informal redistribution,

Marie Boltz, Karine Marazyan, Paola Villar


1. Private wealth across european countries: the role of income, inheritance and the Welfare

State,

Pirmin Fessler, Martin Schuerz

2. Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: A cross-country comparison,

Sarah Kuypers, Francesco Figari, Gerlinde Verbist

3. Intergenerational transfers: How do they shape the German wealth distribution?,

Marten von Werder

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1. Welfare and inequality comparisons for uni- and multi-dimensional distributions of ordinal

data,

Frank Cowell, Martyna Kobus, Kurek Radosław

2. Hammond's equity principle and the measurement of ordinal inequalities,

Nicolas Gravel, Brice Magdalou, Patrick Moyes

3. Extending the approaches to inequality ordering of ordinal variables,

Sandip Sarkar, Sattwik Santra


1. Stratified higher education and intergenerational mobility : The case of the French ‘Grandes

écoles’,

Joel Hellier

2. French Grandes Écoles and social reproduction throughout the 20th Century: the insight of

surnames,

Stéphane Benveniste, Alain Trannoy

3. Alphabetism: The effects of surname initial and the risk of being otherwise undistinguished,

Alexander Cauley, Jeffrey Zax


1. The role of the immediate and extended family in the formation of wealth: Evidence from

Sweden,

Adrian Adermon, Kristin Gunnarsson

2. Family, community and long-term earnings inequality,

Lorenzo Cappellari, Paul Bingley, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

3. Intergenerational earnings mobility in Germany: Changes over time and the role of parental

background,

Iryna Kyzyma, Olaf Groh-Samberg


1. Material deprivation in Europe: A new appraisal based on dynamic latent class models,

Francesco Dotto, Alessio Farcomeni, Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli

2. Latent social classes: disappearance of the Egyptian’s upper middle class and the political

transition,

Christophe Muller, Abdoul Aziz Junior Ndoye

3. Multidimensional middle class,

Maria Edo, Walter Sosa Escudero, Marcela Svarc

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1. The returns to preschool attendance,

Pirmin Fessler, Alyssa Schneebaum

2. Effects of high versus low quality preschool: A longitudinal study in Mauritius,

Christian Morabito, Dirk Van de gaer, Jose Luis Figueroa, Michel Vandenbroeck

3. Do public policies have any long-run effect on poverty reduction net of individuals'

characteristics? Evidence from some European countries,

Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo


1. Poverty measurement (in India): Defining group-specific poverty lines or taking preferences

into account?,

Aditi Dimri, François Maniquet

2. A preference-sensitive index of multidimensional well-being and inequality,

Lin Yang

3. Can't keep up with the Joneses: How relative deprivation pushes internal migration in

Austria,

Stefan Jestl, Mathias Moser, Anna K. Raggl


1. The distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform,

Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt

2. Global value chains and wages: International evidence from linked worker-industry data,

Aleksandra Parteka, Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz

3. The spillover effects of top income inequality,

Jeffrey Clemens, Joshua Gottlieb, David Hémous, Morten Olsen


1. World interest rates, inequality and economic growth,

Tamara Fioroni, Michele Battisti, Mario Lavezzi

2. Income and wealth distributions in a neoclassical growth model with elasticity of substitution

greater or equal to one,

Mauro Patrão

3. How would monetary policy look like if John Rawls had been hired as a chairman of the

Fed?,

Pierre Monnin, Marta Areosa, Waldyr Dutra Areosa

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1. Understanding the differences in welfare distribution between India and Indonesia,

Arip Muttaqien, Denisa Sologon, Cathal O’Donoghue

2. Explaining the changes in earnings level and inequality in Indonesia: Market vis-a-vis

nonmarket forces,

Virgi Sari


1. Benchmark inequality measures,

Iñaki Permanyer

2. Inequality measures and the median: Why inequality increased more than we thought,

Frank Cowell, Emmanuel Flachaire

3. The balance of inequality: A rediscovery of the Gini’s R concentration ratio and a new

inequality decomposition by population subgroups based on a physical rationale,

Giorgio Di Maio, Paolo Landoni


1. Behind the gender wage gap: The role of firms’ pay policy along the wage distribution,

Alessandra Casarico, Salvatore Lattanzio

2. Finnish top income shares and mobility by gender A peek into unique tax registers,

Terhi Ravaska

3. Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States,

Carlos Gradín


1. On the accumulation of wealth under aspirations,

Ana I. Moro-Egido, Jordi Caballe

2. Bequests and the accumulation of wealth in the Eurozone,

Stefan Humer, Mathias Moser, Matthias Schnetzer

3. Inheritances and inequality of opportunity in wealth,

Juan C. Palomino, Juan G. Rodriguez, Gustavo A. Marrero

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1. Inequality in parental time with children: Evidence from the Multinational Time Use Study

(1961-2011),

Evrim Altintas, Alessandra Casarico, Alessandro Sommacal

2. Hours inequality,

Daniele Checchi, Cecilia Garcìa-Peñalosa, Lara Vivian

3. Consumption inequality across heterogeneous families,

Alexandros Theloudis


1. Anatomy of income inequality in the United States: 1979-2013,

Aboozar Hadavand

2. The distribution of wealth by age and income: An analysis based on microdata from the

Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) Database,

Nathaniel Johnson, Janet Gornick

3. On the diversity of assets holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009.,

Eva Sierminska, Jacques Silber


1. Social values for equality and preferences for state intervention: Is the USA “Exceptional”?,

Lars Osberg, Insa Bechert

2. Inequality, redistributional preferences, and the extent of redistribution,

Hannu Tanninen, Matti Tuomala, Elina Tuominen


1. Top incomes and inequality in the UK: Reconciling estimates from household survey and tax

return data,

Richard Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen Jenkins, Roger Wilkins

2. Nonlinearity and cross-country dynamics of income inequality,

Tuomas Malinen, Leena Kalliovirta

3. An integrated approach for top-corrected Ginis,

Bartels Charlotte, Metzing Maria

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1. Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012,

Francisco Ferreira, Sergio Firpo, Julian Messina

2. Income inequality, growth and elite taxation in Brazil: New evidence combining survey and

fiscal data, 2001-2015,

Marc Morgan-Milá

3. Foreign workers, inequality and polarization,

Chung Choe, Philippe Van Kerm


1. Banking development, socioeconomic structure and income inequality,

Alexandra D'Onofrio, Raoul Minetti, Pierluigi Murro

2. Persistent household over-indebtedness and exits from over-indebtedness. Evidence from

EU-SILC,

Stefan Angel

Session 4.1, Tuesday July 18th 09:00-10:30 Room 9207

1. Attitudes to mobility, equality and growth,

Yi Chen, Frank Cowell

2. Perceptions of inequality,

Markus Knell, Helmut Stix

3. Feeling poor, feeling rich, or feeling middle-class: an empirical investigation,

Mathilde Lebrand, Maurizio Bussolo

Session 4.2, Tuesday July 18th 09:00-10:30 Room C204

1. Poverty convergence or divergence? No, Convergence clubs!,

Gustavo Marrero, Angel S. Marrero, Dario Teixido

2. Poverty dynamics across Russian regions,

Dmitry Rudenko

3. GDP per capita versus median household income: What gives rise to the divergence over

time?,

Brian Nolan, Max Roser, Stefan Thewissen

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Session 4.3, Tuesday July 18th 09:00-10:30 Room C415A

1. Accounting for wealth inequality dynamics: Methods, estimates and simulations for France

(1800-2014),

Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, Thomas Piketty

2. The historical evolution of the wealth distribution: A quantitative-theoretic investigation,

Joachim Hubmer, Per Krusell, Anthony Smith

3. Logitrank based measures of joint income and wealth distributions: Trends of inequality in

the United States, 1992 to 2013,

Louis Chauvel, Bar Haim Eyal


1. An econometric investigation of the causes of Sub-Saharan Africa’s inequality trends

bifurcation over 1991-2011,

Giovanni Andrea Cornia

2. Is poverty in Africa mostly chronic or transient? Evidence from synthetic panel data,

Hai-Anh Dang, Andrew Dabalen

3. Most of Africa’s nutritionally vulnerable women and children are not found in poor

households,

Caitlin Brown, Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle


1. Limited budgets and equality of opportunity: an application to health,

Guillem Lopez Casasnovas, Héctor Pifarré i Arolas, Frederic Udina

2. Inequality, poverty and growth: the role of opportunities,

Gustavo Marrero, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez

3. Do people who grew up with better circumstances exert more effort? The answer of the

rational choice model under uncertainty,

Arnaud Lefranc, Alain Trannoy


1. Employer-Mandated Complementary Health Insurance in France: The likely effects on social

welfare,

Aurélie Pierre, Florence Jusot, Denis Raynaud, Carine Franc

2. Fiscal policy, inequality, and poverty in Iran: Assessing the impact and effectiveness of taxes

and transfers,

Ali Enami, Nora Lustig, Alireza Taqdiri

3. Gender bias in the spending of child benefits: Evidence from a natural policy reform,

Panayiota Lyssiotou

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1. Inequality-minimization with a given public budget,

Johannes Koenig, Carsten Schroeder

2. Optimal non-welfarist income taxation for inequality and polarization reduction,

Vincenzo Prete, Alessandro Sommacal, Claudio Zoli

3. Equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty: Measurement and optimal taxation,

Paul Hufe, Andreas Peichl, Ravi Kanbur


1. Intrahousehold allocation of resources and household deprivation,

Elena Bárcena, Maite Blazquez, Ana I. Moro-Egido

2. Improving the supplemental poverty measure: Two simple proposals,

John Bishop, Jonathan Lee, Lester Zeager

3. Varying economies of scale in housing: The impact on poverty statistics of varying

economics of scale in housing,

Thesia Garner, Trudi Renwick


1. Perceptions of inevitability and demand for redistribution: Evidence from a survey

experiment,

Miquel Pellicer, Patrizio Piraino, Eva Wegner

2. Subjective well-being among deprived young people,

Paula Carrasco, Rodrigo Ceni, Ivone Perazzo, Gonzalo Salas


1. The orness value for rank-dependent welfare functions and rank-dependent poverty measures,

Oihana Aristondo, Ciommi Mariateresa

2. Evaluating intertemporal growth, mobility and the distribution of income streams,

Flaviana Palmisano, Dirk Van de gaer

3. Measuring inequities in health over the lifecycle: age-specific or lifecycle perspective?,

Damien Bricard, Florence Jusot, Alain Trannoy, Sandy Tubeuf

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1. So close and yet so unequal: reconsidering spatial inequality in US cities,

Francesco Andreoli, Eugenio Peluso

2. Income inequality among regions and Metropolitan Statistical Areas: 2005 to 2015,

Brian Glassman

3. Cost of living, centralized wage setting and urban wage premia,

Paolo Naticchioni, Marianna Belloc, Claudia Vittori


1. A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States,

Timm Boenke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schroeder, Edward N. Wolff

2. Structural policy and the inequality-unemployment trade-off: Is the German strategy

applicable to France?,

Nathalie Chusseau, Joël Hellier

3. The evolution of top earnings in Germany: Evidence from wage tax records,

Markus Hahn


1. Is there a trade-off between efficiency and equity in education?,

Simona Ferraro, Kaire Põder

2. Upward mobility and legislator support for education reforms,

Luna Bellani, Vigile Fabella

3. Intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from the World War II cohorts in

Europe,

Enkelejda Havari, Franco Peracchi


1. Adding insult to injury: Racial disparity in an era of increasing income inequality,

Randall Akee, Maggie R. Jones, Sonya R. Porter

2. Work limitations and income inequality in the US 1988-2016,

Katie Jajtner, Christine Fountain, Sophie Mitra, Austin Nichols

3. American exceptionalism in market income inequality: An analysis based on microdata from

the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database,

Janet Gornick, Branko Milanovic, Nathaniel Johnson

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1. Unequal opportunity, unequal growth,

Gustavo Marrero, Juan Gabriel Rodriguez, Roy van der Weide

2. Inequality of opportunity and growth in Italy,

Maria Lucia Pace

3. Inequality of opportunity: New measurement methodology and impact on growth,

Geoffrey Teyssier


1. Financial deepening and income distribution inequality in the euro area,

Donatella Baiardi, Claudio Morana

2. Income inequality and sovereign default,

Zeynep Kabukcuoglu, Kiyoung Jeon

3. Macroprudential policy and household wealth inequality,

Jean Francois Carpantier, Javier Olivera, Philippe Van Kerm


1. Poverty and children’s cognitive trajectories: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Millennium Cohort Study,

Bruckauf Zlata, Chzhen Yekaterina

2. Prenatal economic shocks and birth outcomes,

Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Nick Rohde

3. Doing better for single-parent families: Poverty and policy across 45 countries,

Laurie Maldonado


1. Top lights - bright spots and their contribution to economic development,

Melanie Krause, Richard Bluhm

2. Inequality, privatization and democratic institutions in developing countries,

Lidia Ceriani, Simona Scabrosetti, Francesco Scervini

3. Share ownership distribution and natural resource extraction,

Xiaoyan Liu, Laura Marsiliani, Thomas Renstrom

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1. Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?,

Xavier Ramos, Dirk Van de gaer

2. On the measurement of inequality of opportunity: the role of effort-progressive transfers,

Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Juan Gabriel Rodriguez, Rafael Salas

3. Evolution of Inequality of opportunity in Chile,

Gabriela Zapata Roman


1. Math, girls and socialism,

Claudia Senik, Quentin Lippmann

2. Top incomes and the gender divide,

Anthony Atkinson, Alessandra Casarico, Sarah Voitchovsky

3. The individualization of wealth. Evidence from France,

Marion Leturcq, Nicolas Frémeaux


1. The unequal opportunity for skill acquisition over the Great Recession in Europe,

Sara Ayllón, Natalia Nollenberger

2. Global inequality in a more educated world,

Amer Ahmed, Maurizio Bussolo, Marcio Cruz, Delfin Go, Israel Osorio-Rodoarte

3. Equality of opportunity of education in Germany. Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment,

Sebastian Camarero Garcia


1. Inequality and the size of government,

Weijie Luo, Andrew Pickering, Paulo Santos Monteiro

2. Quality of government and subjective poverty in Europe,

Massimo Baldini, Vito Peragine, Luca Silvestri

3. Revisiting the relationship between welfare spending and income inequality in OECD

countries,

Giorgio d'Agostino, Luca Pieroni, Isabella Procidano

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1. Income distribution, household heterogeneity and consumption insurance in the UK.,

Gabriele Amorosi, Amanda Gosling, Miguel Leon-Ledesma

2. A different perspective on the evolution of UK income inequality,

Anthony Atkinson, Stephen Jenkins

3. Top wealth share in the UK over more than a century,

Salvatore Morelli, Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony Atkinson


1. CPI bias and its implication for poverty reduction in Africa,

Andrew Dabalen, Isis Gaddis, Nga Nguyen

2. Decomposition of urban-rural inequality in Maurtiania,

El Moctar Laghlal

3. Economic inequality in the Arab Region,

Nadia Belhaj Hassine


1. Understanding the dynamics of labor income inequality in Latin America,

Carlos Rodriguez-Castelan, Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Nora Lustig, Daniel Valderrama

2. Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database,

Guido Neidhoefer, Joaquin Serrano, Leonardo Gasparini

3. Visible consumption, income inequality and the role of reference groups. Evidence from four

Latin American countries,

Andrea Vigorito, Martin Leites, Rodrigo Gorga


1. Varieties of capitalism (VoC) and varieties of distributions (VoD): How welfare regimes

affect the pre- and post-transfer shapes of inequalities?,

Louis Chauvel, Eyal Bar-haim

2. Middle-class and structural transformation: Exploring three dimensions of the middle-class in

middle-income countries.,

Razafimandimby Andrianjaka Riana

3. Economic issues are moral issues: The moral underpinnings of attitudes towards wealth

inequality,

Andrew Franks, Kyle Scherr

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1. Societal poverty: a relative and relevant measure,

Dean Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz

2. Some are more equal than others: new estimates of global and regional inequality,

Zsolt Darvas

Session 7.1, Wednesday July 19th 09:00-10:30 Room 9207

1. Income and consumption inequality in the Philippines: a stochastic dominance analysis of

household unit records,

Maria Rebecca Valenzuela, Wing-Keung Wong, Zhu Zhen Zhen

2. On shrinking the planner’s choice set in multiple wellbeing comparisons,

Gordon Anderson, Thierry Post

3. Almost Lorenz dominance,

Buhong Zheng

Session 7.2, Wednesday July 19th 09:00-10:30 Room C204

1. Inequality in India: life chances and caste maters,

Omkar Joshi

2. Capital and the Hindu rate of growth: wealth concentration in newly independent India 1961-

1986,

Rishabh Kumar

3. Nutrient consumption in India: evidence from a village study,

Indranil Dutta, Shruti Kapoor, Prasanta Pattanaik

Session 7.3, Wednesday July 19th 09:00-10:30 Room C415A

1. Inverse fair taxation: What do we compensate for in Europe and the United States?,

Erwin Ooghe, Andreas Peichl

2. (Un)fair tax-benefit systems: Evidence from selected OECD countries,

Francois Maniquet, Dirk Neumann

3. Fair sharing of an international river,

Emel Ozturk


1. The distribution of the growth dividends,

Mikkel Hermansen, Orsetta Causa, Nicolas Ruiz

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2. The quest for pro-poor and inclusive growth: The role of governance,

Djeneba Doumbia

3. Growth and poverty revisited from a multidimensional perspective,

Maria Emma Santos, Carlos Dabus, Fernando Delbianco


1. The euro area wage distribution over the crisis,

Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia

2. Homeownership taxation after the Great Recession onset in Europe: do property taxes

compensate for income tax exemptions?,

Francesco Figari, Gerlinde Verbist, Francesca Zantomio

3. Labour outcomes and family background: Evidence from the EU during the recession,

Silvia Avram, Olga Canto


1. Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform and the minimum wage: The UK

as a case-study,

Anthony B. Atkinson, Chrysa Leventi, Brian Nolan, Holly Sutherland, Iva V. Tasseva

2. The take-up of welfare benefits: combining a static and dynamic perspective,

Tuuli Paukkeri

3. The take-up of welfare benefits and the relevance of correcting survey data,

Kerstin Bruckmeier, Regina T. Riphahn, Jürgen Wiemers


1. Vulnerability to poverty: Tajikistan during and after the Global Financial Crisis,

Ira Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

2. Poverty in times of crisis,

Alexander Ahammer, Stefan Kranzinger

3. Mobility into and out of poverty in Europe in good and bad times: The role of income,

demographic and labour market events,

Eirini Andriopoulou, Panos Tsakloglou


1. Love and money with inheritance: marital sorting between labor income and inherited wealth

in the modern partnership,

Etienne Pasteau, Junyi Zhu

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2. Watching in your partner’s pocket before saying 'Yes'! Assortative mating and income

inequality,

Carlo Fiorio, Stefano Verzillo

3. Understanding intergenerational transmission of poverty in Spain: Education and marital

sorting,

Maria A. Davia, Nuria Legazpe


1. The effects of education on income inequality in Latin America,

Claudia Samano Robles

2. University supply expansion and inequality of opportunity of access. The case of Uruguay.,

Luciana Mendez


1. Measurement of equality of opportunity: A normative approach,

Kristof Bosmans, Z. Emel Öztürk

2. Equality of opportunity for well-being,

Daniel Mahler, Xavier Ramos

3. Responsibility-sensitive social welfare function,

Jun Matsui


1. Wealth accumulation, on the job search, and inequality,

Gaston Chaumont, Shouyong Shi

2. Inequality in 3-D: Income, Consumption, and Wealth,

Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson

3. The Conditional Gini: Estimation and application to the relationship between wealth,

financial use, and income inequality,

Christian Ahlin, Hyeok Jeong


1. Reference income effects in the determination of equivalence scales using income

satisfaction data,

Andreas Knabe, Melanie Borah, Carina Kuhställer

2. Unfairness at work: Well-being and quits,

Conchita D'Ambrosio, Andrew Clark, Marta Barazzetta

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3. Top incomes and subjective Well-being,

Michal Brzezinski


1. The effect of income inequality on political polarization: Evidence from European Regions,

2002-2014,

Hernan Winkler

2. Rent-seeking induced inequality traps,

Mayuri Chaturvedi

3. Income, social and political inequality,

Ariun-Erdene Bayarjargargal


1. Global inequality dynamics: new findings from WID.world,

Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

2. Inequality increasing everywhere? Conflicting evidence from an updated global database of

household surveys,

Francisco Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Ani Rudra Silwal

3. Global inequality: how large is the effect of top incomes?,

Vanesa Jorda, Miguel Niño-Zarazua


1. Are top shares a good measure of inequality?,

Guillermina Jasso

2. Evolution of income poverty under unequal growth: Settling the dispute between absolutists

and relativists.,

Benoit Decerf, Mery Ferrando

3. Unequal inequalities revisited,

Joshua Greenstein


1. Measuring inequality via the use of asset indexes: The case of Central and Western Asia,

Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber, Guanghua Wan

2. The global rise of asset prices and the decline of the labor share,

Ignacio Gonzalez, Pedro Trivin

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3. Housing bubbles, offshore assets and wealth inequality in Spain (1984-2013),

Clara Martínez-Toledano


1. The contribution of minimum wage valorization policy to the decline in household income

inequality in Brazil: a decomposition approach,

Alessandra Brito, Miguel Foguel, Celia Kerstenetzky

2. The labor market effects of an educational expansion. The case of Brazil from 1995 to 2014,

David Jaume

3. The expansion of consumption and the welfare dynamics of the Brazilian families: a

decomposition analysis of poverty and inequality,

Leonardo Oliveira, Viviane Quintaes, Luciana Santos, Debora Souza


1. The composition effects of tax-based consolidations on income inequality,

Gabriele Ciminelli, Ekkehard Ernst, Massimo Giuliodori, Rossana Merola

2. The dynamic effects of fiscal consolidation episodes on income inequality: Evidence for 17

OECD countries over 1978-2013,

Philipp Heimberger


1. Has the world converged? A robust and consistent analysis of non-monetary bounded

indicators,

Suman Seth, Gaston Yalonetzky

2. Evaluating education systems,

Nicolas Gravel, Edward Levavasseur, Patrick Moyes

3. Measuring robustness for poverty comparisons: Revisiting progresses in poverty reduction

during the MDG era,

Florent Bresson, Anne Viallefont


1. Diasporas and conflict,

Fabio Mariani, Marion Mercier, Thierry Verdier

2. Neighborhood disputes? Spatial inequalities and civil conflict in Africa,

Richard Bluhm, Melvin Wong

3. Decisions under uncertainty: Are victims of conflict quantile maximizers?,

Lidia Ceriani, Paolo Verme

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1. Wealth distribution in Uruguay: a capitalization method approach,

Mauricio De Rosa

2. The joint distribution of income and wealth in Uruguay,

Graciela Sanroman, Guillermo Santos

3. Family structure and wealth inequality among families with children, 1989-2013,

Christine Percheski, Christina Gibson-Davis


1. The distributional impact of social spending in Peru,

Anja Gaentzsch

2. Inequality and informality revisited,

Verónica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim

3. Effects of food prices on poverty: The case of Paraguay, a food exporter and a non-fully

urbanized country,

Santiago Garriga, Maria Ana Lugo, Jorge Puig


1. Understanding the mechanical relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility,

Yonatan Berman

2. Intergenerational mobility between and within Canada and the United States,

Marie Connolly, Miles Corak, Catherine Haeck

3. The intergenerational elasticity of income in the United States is rising in tandem with

income inequality and returns to schooling,

Moshe Justman, Anna Krush, Hadas Millo


1. A new measure of income poverty for Europe,

Benoît Decerf, Karel Van den Bosch, Tim Goedemé

2. Poverty risk of the unemployed in Europe: Why is it higher in some countries than in others?,

Kerstin Bruckmeier, Thomas Rhein

3. Household size and poverty,

Alessio Fusco, Nizamul Islam

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1. The increasing longevity gap by lifetime earnings and its distributional implications,

Daniel Kemptner, Peter Haan, Holger Luethen

2. Sources of German income inequality across time and space,

Franziska Deutschmann

3. Cross-national differences in income inequality: Isolating the roles of demography, market

returns, policy and labour supply,

Denisa M. Sologon, Philippe Van Kerm, Jinjing Li, Cathal O’Donoghue


1. Redistibution around the World: Causes and consequences,

Jukka Pirttilä, Markus Jäntti, Risto Rönkkö

2. Fiscal policy, income redistribution and poverty reduction in low and middle income

countries,

Nora Lustig

3. Redistribution and insurance in Welfare States around the World,

Charlotte Bartels, Dirk Neumann

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