Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality at Peking University

Admit-only training for advanced Ph.D. students and early career faculty led by a roster of multidisciplinary leading scholars.
Recurring Event | Training
Location Peking University, National School of Development, 5 Yiheyuan Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, 100871
Organizers Steven Durlauf, Lixing Li, Tianyang Xi, Yang Yao
Featured Speakers

Yang Yao, Steven Durlauf, Felix Elwert, Lawrence Blume, Junsen Zhang, Shi Li, Junjian Yi
Research Areas Methodology

The Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality seeks to provide the next generation of scholars with the multidisciplinary underpinning necessary for effective research on inequality dynamics. It featured leading scholars tackling inequality research from the lens of economics, sociology, and public policy, to foster cross-disciplinary approaches to inequality research and public policy evaluation regarding long-term inequality issues. It also engaged advanced Ph.D. students and early-career faculty through immersive lectures on state-of-the-art methods for inequality research, one-on-one and small-group meetings with senior researchers, and poster sessions where summer school students can receive input on their early-stage research from the research community. The summer schools are designed to yield long-term benefits in creating lasting intellectual links that can be pursued long after the conclusion of the meetings. Organized in partnership between the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University in Beijing, China.  

 

Participation was by invitation only.

 

Schedule

Monday, July 10

Start Time End Time Session Session Leader
9:00 a.m.  9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks Yang Yao
9:10 a.m  12:10 p.m. Intergenerational Mobility Steven Durlauf
12:10 p.m.  2:00 p.m. Lunch Break  
2:00 p.m.  5:00 p.m. Neighborhood Effects Felix Elwert

Tuesday, July 11

Start Time End Time Session Session Leader
9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Social Networks: Some Theory and Econometrics Lawrence Blume
12:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break (Poster Session)  
2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Office Hours  

Wednesday, July 12

Start Time End Time Session Session Leader
9:00 a.m. 

2:00 p.m.

 The Demography of the Great Migration in China Junsen Zhang
12:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break (Poster Session)  
2:00 p.m.  5:00 p.m. Office Hours  

 

Thursday, July 13

Start Time End Time Session Session Leader
9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Inequality of Income and Wealth and Poverty Reduction in China in the Last Four Decades Shi Li
12:00 p.m.  2:00 p.m. Lunch Break (Poster Session)  
2:00 p.m.  5:00 p.m. Office Hours  

Friday, July 14

Start Time End Time Session Session Leader
9:00 a.m.  12:00 p.m. Intergenerational Mobility in China: Measures, Causes, and Consequences Junjian Yi
2:00 p.m.  5:00 p.m. Office Hours