Wealth Inequality at the University of Chicago
Using the strengths of economics, econophysics, sociology, and history to develop new tools to understand wealth inequality.
Categories
Conference | Recurring Event
Organizers
Luis Bettencourt, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Steven Durlauf, Tao Zha
Featured Speakers
Mattia Fochesato, Laura Fursich, Fabian Aguirre Lopez, Alberto Bisin, Antoine Parent, Wojciech Kopczuk, David McMillon, Karen Kopecky, Francois Geerolf
Research Areas
Wealth, Methodology
The Wealth Inequality workshop series is a multi-year collaboration advancing transdisciplinary research on cross-cultural wealth differences in the United States, Europe, and emerging market economies. These workshops endeavor to combine the strengths of economics, econophysics, sociology, history, and other relevant disciplines to develop new methodological tools to understand wealth inequality within and across generations and cultural contexts.
Participation is by invitation only.
Schedule
Thursday, March 27
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Session
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9:00 a.m.
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9:30 a.m.
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Breakfast
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9:30 a.m.
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10:15 a.m.
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Labor, Land and the Global Dynamics of Economic Inequality | Mattia Fochesato |
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10:20 a.m.
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11:05 a.m.
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Using Information Theory to Analyze the Structure of Economic Inequality
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Laura Fursich |
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11:05 a.m.
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11:15 a.m.
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Coffee Break
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11:15 a.m.
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12:00 p.m.
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Emergent Inequality in Cooperative Systems
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Fabian Aguirre Lopez |
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12:00 p.m.
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1:00 p.m.
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Lunch
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1:00 p.m.
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1:45 p.m.
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A Theory of Pareto Distributions
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Francois Geerolf |
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1:50 p.m.
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2:35 p.m.
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The Abolition of Privilege: A Model of the Dynamic Spread of Egalitarian Ideas in Revolutionary France 1789 – 1795
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Antoine Parent |
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2:35 p.m.
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2:45 p.m.
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Coffee Break
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2:45 p.m.
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3:30 p.m.
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Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway
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Wojciech Kopczuk |
Friday, March 28
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9:00 a.m.
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9:30 a.m.
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Breakfast
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9:30 a.m.
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10:15 a.m.
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Systemic Discrimination and Wealth Inequality |
David McMillon |
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10:20 a.m.
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11:05 a.m.
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Cohabitation, Child Development, and College Costs
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Karen Kopecky |
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11:15 a.m.
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12:00 p.m.
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Questione Meridionale: Elites and Civic Society |
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12:00 p.m.
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1:00 p.m.
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Lunch
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