Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality at University of Chicago
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 engage 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 Institute for Economic Research at Seoul National University and the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
Participation is by invitation only.
Conference Schedule
Monday, July 22
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 9:00 a.m. | 9:20 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 9:20 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks | |
| Session I |
Chair: |
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| 9:30 a.m. | 10:15 a.m. | The Labor Market Impacts of Children | Yana Gallen |
| 10:20 a.m. | 11:05 a.m. | Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions? | Bobby Chung |
| 11:10 a.m. | 11:55 a.m. | Manufacturing Investment and Employee Earnings: Evidence from Accelerated Depreciation | Terry Moon |
| 12:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Session II |
Chair: |
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| 1:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Concentrated Poverty, Environmental Inequality, and Academic Achievement |
Keynote: |
| 2:05 p.m. | 2:50 p.m. | Valuating the Costs and Benefits of Working in the Gig Economy | Dimitri Koustas |
| 2:55 p.m. | 3:40 p.m. | Debt, Human Capital, and the Allocation of Talent | Minki Kim |
| 3:40 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| Session III |
Chair: |
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| 4:00 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Dynamic Competition in Parental Investment and Child’s Efforts | Hyunjae Kang |
| 4:50 p.m. | 5:35 p.m. | Parental Investments and Socioeconomic Gradients in Learning across European Countries | Alessandro Toppeta |
| 5:40 p.m. | 6:25 p.m. | The Effects of Income Support for Low Income Households: Evidence from the Seoul Safety Income Project | Jungmin Lee |
| 6:30 p.m. | 7:30 p.m. | Reception |
Tuesday, July 23
| Star Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 9:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| Session IV | Chair: Dionissi Aliprantis | ||
| 9:30 a.m. | 10:15 a.m. |
A Conditional Markov Chain Model for Intergenerational Income Mobility with Large Dimensional Covariates |
Bo Hu |
| 10:20 a.m. | 11:05 a.m. |
One Land, Many Promises: Assessing the Consequences of Unequal Childhood Location Effects |
Hadar Avivi |
| 11:10 a.m. | 11:55 a.m. | Child Penalty amid Declining Fertility: Evidence from Korea | Jisoo Hwang |
| 12:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Session V | Chair: Steven Durlauf | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. |
Childhood Exposure to Violence and Nurturing Relationships: The Long-Run Effects on Black Men |
Keynote: |
| 2:05 p.m. | 2:50 p.m. |
Financial Barriers among Former Justice-Involved Entrepreneurs: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program |
Kylie Hwang |
| 2:55 p.m. | 3:40 p.m. |
A Tale of Two Transitions: Mobility Dynamics in China and Russia after Central Planning |
Kristina Butaeva |
| 3:40 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| Session VI | Chair: Jungmin Lee | ||
| 4:00 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Land Reform, Human Capital Accumulation, and Structural Transformation | Munseob Lee |
| 4:50 p.m. | 5:35 p.m. |
The Effect of Targeted Subsidies on the Location Choice of Housing Voucher Recipients: Horizontal Scaling of Small-Area Fair Market Rents |
Eunjee Kwon |
| 5:40 p.m. | 6:25 p.m. | Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story | Seula Kim |
Summer School Schedule
Wednesday, July 24
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 9:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| Session I | |||
| 9:30 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. |
One Stochastic Process to Rule Them All: New Characterizations of Intergenerational Mobility Based on Markov Chains |
Steven Durlauf |
| 12:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Lunch (Office Hours) | |
| Session II | |||
| 2:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. |
Residential Segregation and Access to Opportunity |
Dionissi Aliprantis |
| 4:30 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | Office Hours | |
| 7:00 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. | Student Social |
Thursday, July 25
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 9:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| Session I | |||
| 9:30 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | Cost of Living Inequality | Munseob Lee |
| 12:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Lunch (Office Hours) | |
| Session II | |||
| 2:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | Poster Session 1 |
Natalia Barcels Yue Dai Saqib Hussain Ruiyi Li |
| 3:30 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. |
Mentoring Panel: Recommendations to Graduate Students on Inequality-Related Topics |
Friday, July 26
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leaders |
| 9:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| Session I | |||
| 9:30 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | A Trajectory-Based Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility | Yoosoon Chang |
| 12:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Lunch (Office Hours) | |
| Session II | |||
| 2:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | Poster Session 2 |
Yang Qiu Carolina Queiroz |
| 3:30 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |