Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality at the University of British Columbia
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, 10 August
Location: The University of British Columbia Iona Building, Iona 533
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
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| 9:00 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | Welcome Presentation: Empirical Labour Economics and Distributive Justice | David Green |
| 10:00 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Intergenerational Mobility | Bhash Mazumder |
| 12:30 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Office Hours | |||
| 1:45 p.m | 2:30 p.m | Student Presentations | |
| 1:45 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Class Mobility in the Era of Rising Inequality: A Synthetic Dynasty Analysis | Kristina Butaeva |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | Rising Inequality, Declining Mobility: The Evolution of Intergenerational Income Mobility in Germany | Moritz Bode |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Prior Work Experience and Apprenticeship | Brennan McLachlan |
| 3:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | Health Inequality | Marcella Alsan |
| 6:30 p.m. | 7:30 p.m. | Welcome Barbecue |
Tuesday, 11 August
Location: The University of British Columbia Iona Building, Iona 533
| Start Time |
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| 10:00 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Residential Segregation and Access to Opportunity | Dionissi Aliprantis |
| 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. | Technological Change and Modern Slavery: Evidence from Local Labor Markets | Daniel Araujo |
| 1:45 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Immigrant Ownership and Workplace Segregation in Canada | Nathanael Hammond |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | Land as a Path to Peace? Property Rights Restoration and Economic Development after Conflict | Juan Jimenez |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:3o p.m. | Heterogeneity in Homeless Housing Search Behavior | Louis Margolis |
| 3:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | Intergenerational Income Mobility | Marie Connolly |
| 6:30 p.m. | 8:30 p.m. | Improv Show |
Wednesday, 12 August
Location: University of British Columbia Iona Building, Iona 533
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| 10:00 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | Historical and Dynamic Processes of Economic Development | Nathan Nunn |
| 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. | Social Interactions: Hierarchical Multinomial Choice | Prabidhik KC |
| 1:45 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Who Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt? | Julian König |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | Generative AI and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Texas Public Universities | Pryce Davies |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Where the Subway Goes: Transit Infrastructure and School Choice | Constanza Munoz |
| 3:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | Meritocracy | Steven Durlauf |
Meet the Mentors on The Inequality Podcast
Episode #28: Dionissi Aliprantis on Segregation and Neighborhood Effects
Episode #41: Nicole Fortin on the Economic Progress of Women
Episode #17: Bhash Mazumder on Intergenerational Mobility and Its Many Dimensions
Wealth Inequality and Mobility Conference Schedule
Thursday, 13 August
Location: University of British Columbia Iona Building, Iona 301
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| 9:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 9:30 a.m. | 9:40 a.m | Welcome | Thomas Lemieux |
| Session I: Work, Wages, & Economic Opportunity | |||
| 9:40 a.m. | 10:25 a.m. | Are Immigrants Particularly Entrepreneurial? Firm Ownership as a Key Element in Immigrant Income Assimilation | David Green |
| 10:25 a.m. | 11:10 a.m. | Liquid Wealth and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Labor Income Shocks | Damon Jones |
| 11:10 a.m. | 11:40 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:40 a.m. | 12:25 p.m. | Unions and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Canadian Administrative Data | Thomas Lemieux |
| 12:25 p.m. | 1:25 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Session II: Families, Mobility, & Status | |||
| 1:25 p.m. | 2:10 p.m. | Rich in Some Ways, Poor in Others: Trends in U.S. Status Consistency across Ethnoracial Groups | Deirdre Bloome |
| 2:10 p.m. | 2:55 p.m. | Class Mobility in the Era of Rising Inequality: A Synthetic Dynasty Analysis | Steven Durlauf |
| 2:55 p.m. | 3:25 p.m. | Break | |
| Session III: Wealth Dynamics | |||
| 3:25 p.m. | 4:10 p.m. | The Effect of Divorce on Wealth | Alexandra Killewald |
| 4:10 p.m. | 4:55 p.m. | A Relational Approach to Wealth Inequality | Fabian Pfeffer |
| 6:10 p.m. | 8:40 p.m. | Private Conference Dinner |
Stone Center Network Strategy Session
Friday, 14 August
Private Session: Please note attendance to this session is limited to invited participants only. This meeting is closed to Summer School participants and the public.
| Start Time | End Time | Session |
| 9:30 a.m. | 9:45 a.m. | Opening Remarks Fourteen Programs on Wealth and Income Inequality |
| 9:45 a.m. | 10:30 a.m. | Building Effective Centers Structures & Governance |
| 10:30 a.m. | 11:15 a.m. | Training the Next Generation of Scholars Predoctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers |
| 11:15 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | New Pedagogical Approaches Introducing Students to Inequality Research |
| 12:00 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts Stone Center Information Exchange (SCIE) |
| 2:15 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | The Future of Inequality Research The Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities |
| 6:30 p.m. | 9:30 p.m. | Boat Cruise |
This program is jointly supported by the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality at the University of Chicago and the Vancouver Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of British Columbia.
