Recent Advances in Inequality and Mobility
This conference, Recent Advances in Inequality and Mobility, convenes leading scholars at the forefront of econometrics and empirical research on inequality and mobility. It provides a platform for the free exchange of groundbreaking work, fostering dialogue and collaboration among experts. Beyond advancing collective understanding of these pressing issues, the conference also honors the influential research contributions and ongoing legacy of Stone Center Director Steven Durlauf.
Participation is by invitation only.
Schedule
Friday, October 18
Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leader(s) |
9:00 a.m. | 9:25 a.m. | Breakfast | |
9:25 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks | |
Session I | Chair: Yoosoon Chang | ||
9:30 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. |
Ideas Versus Emotions and End of the Ancien Régime: What Can Textual Analysis Reveal? |
Cecile Bastidon |
10:05 a.m. | 10:35 a.m. |
Late Bloomers: The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life |
Moshe Buchinsky |
10:40 a.m. | 11:10 a.m. |
Information Frictions and the Labor Market for Public School Teachers |
Co-author: Mark Colas |
11:15 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. |
The Effect of Minimum Wage of the Distribution of Hours Worked in the U.S. |
Yisroel Cahn |
11:45 a.m. | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
Session II | Chair: Esfandiar Maasoumi | ||
1:00 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. |
From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data |
Xi Song |
1:35 p.m. | 2:05 p.m. |
The Evolution of Black-White Differences in Occupational Mobility Across Post-Civil War America |
Gueyon Kim & Dohyeon Lee |
2:05 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. | Break | |
Session III | Chair: Joon Park | ||
2:35 p.m. | 3:05 p.m. |
Identifying Long-Run Neighborhood Effects via Racialized Neighborhood Sorting |
Co-author: Chris Muris |
3:10 p.m. | 3:40 p.m. |
Search, Neighborhood Effects, and Human Capital Formation |
Yannis Ioannides |
3:45 p.m. | 4:15 p.m. |
Understanding the Heterogeneity of Intergenerational Mobility across Neighborhoods |
Neil Cholli |
Saturday, October 19
Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leader(s) |
9:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
Session I | Chair: Andros Kourtellos | ||
9:30 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. |
The Anatomy of Intergenerational Income Mobility |
Co-authors: Dan Black & Seth Sanders |
10:05 a.m. | 10:35 a.m. |
Intergenerational Income Mobility around (and for) the World |
Co-authors: Miles Corak, Aart Kraay, Branko Milanovic, and Ercio Munoz |
10:40 a.m. | 11:10 a.m. |
A Trajectories-Based Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility |
Yoosoon Chang |
11:15 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. |
Intergenerational Mobility in Late Qing Dynasty China |
Co-author: Sasha Shapoval |
11:45 a.m. | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
Session II | Chair: Esfandiar Maasoumi | ||
1:00 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. |
Immobility as Memory: Some New Approaches to Characterizing Intergenerational Persistence via Markov Chains |
Aleksandra Lukina |
1:35 p.m. | 2:05 p.m. |
Large Dimensional Models for Analyzing Familial Influences on Intergenerational Mobility: Exploring Interactions Between Income and Family Structure Trajectories and Beyond |
Bo Hu |
2:05 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. | Break | |
Session III | Chair: Yoosoon Chang | ||
2:35 p.m. | 3:05 p.m. |
A Functional Quantile Approach to Estimating Intergenerational Mobility |
Co-authors: Pang Du & Peijun Sang |
3:10 p.m. | 3:40 p.m. |
Social Curves: A Functional Spatial Regression Approach |
Andros Kourtellos |
3:45 p.m. | 4:15 p.m. |
A New Approach to Measuring Genetic and Environmental Effects in Twins Studies |
Chih Ming Tan |
4:15 p.m. | 4:20 p.m. |
Closing Remarks |
Location
- The venue is located at the Harris School of Public Policy, Sky Suite (Fourth Floor), 1307 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637.
Logistics
- The Sky Suite at the Harris School of Public Policy will be equipped with a screen, computer, and clicker.
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Wi-Fi is available throughout campus using your university credentials on the “eduroam” network or via the guest network; guest log-in details will be provided on-site.