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 featured 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 also engaged 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 Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and the School of Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences of New Uzbekistan University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Participation was by invitation only.
Schedule
Monday, July 1
| Start Time |
End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
| 9:00 a.m. |
9:30 a.m. |
Registration |
|
| 10:00 a.m. |
10:45 a.m. |
Opening Remarks |
Shlomo Weber
Steven Durlauf
Pavel Etingof
|
| 11:00 a.m. |
12:30 p.m. |
Intergenerational Mobility |
Steven Durlauf |
| 12:30 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
|
| 2:00 p.m. |
3:30 p.m. |
Economic Models for Social Interaction |
Lawrence Blume |
| 3:30 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. |
Summer School Practicality Seminar |
|
Tuesday, July 2
| Start Time |
End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
| 10:00 a.m. |
1:00 p.m. |
Case Study Seminar |
|
| 1:00 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
|
| 2:00 p.m. |
3:30 p.m. |
Economic Models for Social Interaction |
Lawrence Blume |
| 3:30 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. |
Causal Inference |
Felix Elwert |
Wednesday, July 3
| Start Time |
End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
| 10:00 a.m. |
11:30 a.m. |
Intergenerational Mobility |
Steven Durlauf |
| 11:40 a.m. |
1:10 p.m. |
Economics of Climate Change |
Klaus Desmet
|
| 1:10 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
|
| 2:10 p.m. |
3:40 p.m. |
Exploiting Social Influence in Networks |
Eyal Winter |
| 3:40 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. |
Seminar |
|
Thursday, July 4
| Start Time |
End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
| 10:00 a.m. |
11:30 a.m. |
Economics of Climate Change |
Klaus Desmet |
| 11:30 a.m. |
12:30 p.m. |
Applications to US Graduate Schools in Economics |
Lawrence Blume
|
| 12:30 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
|
| 2:00 p.m. |
3:30 p.m. |
Optimization Theory |
Xiaoye Liao |
| 3:30 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. |
Case Study Seminar |
Pengshan Pan |
Friday, July 5
| Start Time |
End Time |
Session |
Session Leaders |
| 10:00 a.m. |
11:15 a.m. |
Causal Inference |
Felix Elwert |
| 11:30 a.m. |
12:45 p.m. |
Raising Capital from Heterogeneous Investors |
Eyal Winter
|
| 12:45 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
|
| 2:00 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. |
Seminar |
|
