Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality with the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy
Admit-only training for advanced Ph.D. students and early career faculty led by a roster of multidisciplinary leading scholars.
Categories
One-Time Event | Training
Location
Bocconi University and Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale
Organizers
Steven Durlauf, Mattia Fochesato, Guido Alfani
Featured Speakers
Steven Durlauf, Ariel Kalil, Guido Alfani, Paola Profeta, Antonio Villafranca, Zach Parolin, Béatrice Cherrier, Francesco Billari, Francisco Ferreira, Mattia Fochesato, Letizia Mencarini, Arnstein Aassve, Matthew Parbst, Salvatore Morelli, Facundo Alvaredo, Daniele Checchi, Tullio Jappelli, Alessandra Casarico, Alessandro Toppeta
Research Areas
Income, Methodology, Mobility
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 will feature 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 will also train advanced M.A. and Ph.D. students, policy professionals, 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 presentation opportunities for summer school students where they 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.
Inequality and the Future
Monday, 29 June
Location: Università Bocconi via Röntgen 1, 20136 Milan| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Opening Remarks | Francesco Billari Guido Alfani Steven Durlauf |
| Session I | Chair: Steven Durlauf | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | 3:15 p.m. | The Future of Research on Past Inequality—and Why it Matters for Today | Guido Alfani |
| 3:15 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | The Future of Educational Inequalities | Ariel Kalil |
| 4:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 4:30 p.m. | 5:15 p.m. | Research on Inequality of Opportunity: Past, Present, and Future | Francisco Ferreira |
| 5:15 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | The Future of Gender Inequality | Paola Profeta |
Tuesday, 30 June
Location: Università Bocconi via Röntgen 1, 20136 Milan|
Start Time |
End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session II | Chair: Mattia Fochesato | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | 9:45 a.m. | The Past and the (Possible) Future of Research on Meritocracy: Economics, Psychology, and Philosophy | Béatrice Cherrier |
| 9:45 a.m. | 10:30 a.m. | The Future of Meritocracy | Steven Durlauf |
| 10:30 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. | The Future of Inequality in Fertility: Why Income Now Predicts More Births, not Fewer | Letizia Mencarini Arnstein Aassve Matthew Parbst |
| 11:45 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | The Past and Future of Wealth Transfers | Salvatore Morelli |
| 12:30 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Session III |
Chair: Guido Alfani |
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| 2:00 p.m. | 2:45 p.m. | The Future of Inequality in Latin America and the Developing World | Facundo Alvaredo |
| 2:45 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | Inequality in Slow-Growth Countries: the Case of Italy, from the Historical Experience to Expectations for the Future | Daniele Checchi Tullio Jappelli |
| 3:30 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 4:00 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | The Future of Urban Inequality | Alessandra Casarico |
| 4:45 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | The Future of Inequalities in Human Capital: The Importance of Schools and Families | Alessandro Toppeta |
Meeting ID: 958 3262 9686Passcode: 026899
Summer School Schedule
Wednesday, 1 July
Location: Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Via Clerici, 5 20121, Milan| Start Time | End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | Welcome Presentation: Inequality and Geopolitics | Antonio Villafranca |
| 10:00 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty | Zach Parolin |
| 12:30 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Office Hours | |||
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 2:30 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | Palazzo Clerici Visit | |
| 3:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | Gender Inequality | Paola Profeta |
Thursday, 2 July
Location: Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Via Clerici, 5 20121, Milan|
Start Time |
End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | The History of Economic Inequality | Guido Alfani |
| 11:30 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Office Hours | |
| 12:30 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:30 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | The History of Inequality in Economics | Béatrice Cherrier |
| 4:00 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Break | |
| 4:45 p.m. | 5:45 p.m. | Pinacoteca Ambrosiana Visit |
Friday, 3 July
Location: Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Via Clerici, 5 20121, Milan|
Start Time |
End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | Child Skill Development | Ariel Kalil |
| Student Presentations | |||
| 11:30 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. | Always Available: Behind the Motherhood Penalty | Sveva Manfredi |
| 11:45 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | How Gender Norms Shape Educational Attainment: A Causal Analysis Through Peer Influence | Cristina Specchi |
| 12:00 p.m. | 12:15 p.m. | From Jobs to Degrees: Parents’ Labor Market Position and Children’s Educational Attainment | Linus Krug |
| 12:15 p.m. | 12:30 pm. | Beyond Material Poverty: Revenu de Solidarité Active and Subjective Wellbeing in France | Virginia Fidenti |
| 12:30 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Office Hours | |||
| 2:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | Intergenerational Mobility | Steven Durlauf |
| Student Presentations | |||
| 4:30 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Using Machine Learning to Uncover the Predictors of Subjective Social Class | Varun Satish |
| 4:45 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. | Geographical and Social Origins, Class Attainment, and the Rural-Urban Divide | Hanne Gaukel |
| 5:00 p.m. | 5:15 p.m. | Intergenerational Mobility in Complex Family Structures | Nikodem Szewczyk |
| 5:15 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | Walking Tour of Milan: A History of (Unequal) Wealth | |
| 6:30 p.m. | 9:30 p.m. | All Participant Dinner |
Meet the Mentors on The Inequality Podcast
Episode #10: Guido Alfani on the History of Rich in the West Episode #16: Family, Identity, and Inequality, Featuring Ariel Kalil and Mesmin DestinThis program is jointly supported by the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Bocconi University’s Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, in collaboration with the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale.
