Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality at Universidad Icesi
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.
Summer School Schedule
Monday, 24 August
Location: Carlos Arcesio Paz Auditorium
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 8:30 a.m. | 9:00 a.m | Registration | |
| 9:00 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | Welcome Presentation: Income Distribution, Labor Markets, and Poverty Dynamics | Christian Posso Suarez |
| 10:00 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Inequality, Structural Change, and Long-Term Development in Latin America | Andrés Álvarez |
| 12:30 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Office Hours | |||
| 1:30 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Student Presentations | |
| 1:30 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. | Decomposition of Group Differentials | Maria Mercedes Fleitas Delgado |
| 1:45 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Evolution of Inequities in Access to Health Professional Consultation Services in Colombia | Carlos Cárdenas |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | From the land of Landlords to the land of Smallholders.
Evolution of Land Inequality in Peru between 1961 and 2012 |
Cesar Huaroto |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | The Silent Cut: Real Erosion of Frozen-Nominal Cash Transfers and Household Welfare in Peru | Diego Quispe |
| 2:30 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | The Geography of Social Mobility in Developing Countries | Alexander Monge-Naranjo |
| 5:30 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | Office Hours |
Tuesday, 25 August
Location: Carlos Arcesio Paz Auditorium
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 10:00 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Social Dissent, Coercive Capacity, and Redistribution | Juan Felipe Riaño |
| 12:30 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Office Hours | |||
| 1:30 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Student Presentations | |
| 1:30 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. | Intergenerational Mobility Research Agenda | Lorena Moreno |
| 1:45 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Assimilation and the Intergenerational Mobility of Native Americans, 1900-1940 | Renato de Angelis |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | Uneven de-routinization in Colombia: Structural Change and Informality | Alexander Sarango-Iturralde |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Robin Hood Bias and Bribe in the Public Sector | María Urcia Erazo |
| 2:30 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | A Trajectory-Based Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility | Yoosoon Chang |
| 5:30 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | Office Hours | |
| 7:30 p.m. | 8:30 p.m. | Participant Dinner |
Wednesday, 26 August
Location: Carlos Arcesio Paz Auditorium
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 10:00 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Econometrics Tools for Evaluating Functionals of Interest in
Evaluating Intergenerational Mobility |
Francis Vella |
| 12:30 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Office Hours | |||
| 1:30 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Student Presentations | |
| 1:30 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. | How Much Do High Schools Matter? Effects on college choice beyond achievement | Bruno Aravena Maguida |
| 1:45 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Educational Investment and School Trajectories in Post-Conflict
Rural Colombia: Evidence From the PDET Program |
Camila Lopez Lara |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | Early childhood malnutrition and Educational Trajectories in Argentina | Tobias Yatche |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Career Mentoring for Underrepresented Talent:
Effects on Education, Employment, and Innovation |
Juan David Garcia Gonzalez |
| 2:30 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | Meritocracy | Steven Durlauf |
| 5:30 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | Office Hours | |
| 6:30 p.m. | 8:30 p.m. | Summer School Social |
Meet the Mentors on The Inequality Podcast
Episode #38: Alexander Monge-Naranjo on the College Affordability Crisis
Who Gets Ahead and Why: Inequality, Meritocracy, and Social Mobility in the Americas
Thursday, 27 August
Location: Cementos Argos Auditorium
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 8:30 a.m. | 9:00 a.m. | Registration | |
| 9:00 a.m. | 9:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks | Esteban Piedrahita |
| Session I | |||
| 9:15 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | From Malthus to Malthus | Alexander Monge-Naranjo |
| 10:00 a.m. | 10:45 a.m. | Marital Sorting, Household Inequality and Selection | Francis Vella |
| 10:45 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| Session II | |||
| 11:00 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. | From Patriarchy to Policy: Norms, Votes, and Gender Equal Laws | Maurizio Bussolo |
| 11:45 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Status Mobility in China: Past & Present | Steven Durlauf |
| 12:30 p.m. | 1:15 p.m. | Age-Varying Social Influences on Intergenerational Mobility
and Their Interactions with Family Income Trajectories |
Yoosoon Chang |
| 1:15 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Session III | |||
| 2:15 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | The Long-Run Persistence of Family Ties in Latin America | Juliana Jaramillo |
| 3:00 p.m. | 3:45 p.m. | Gender and Distributive Fiscal Policies in a High Informality Context: Colombia |
Andrés Álvarez |
| 3:45 p.m. | 4:15 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 4:15 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. | Designing Policies to Reduce Early Inequality:
Evidence on Measurement, Dynamics and Scalable Interventions |
Orazio Attanasio |
| 5:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | How to Foster Social Mobility in Unequal Societies?
Evidence, Policies, and Regional Challenges |
Moderator: Blanca Zuluaga |
| 6:30 p.m. | 8:30 p.m. | Conference Reception |
This program is organized in partnership with the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality, the Georgetown Americas Institute, and Universidad Icesi,in Cali, Colombia.
