Workshop on Inequality
Workshop on Inequality
Thursday 9 Apr 2015Co-organisers: Professor Sayantan Ghosal and Dr Sanchari Roy
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from across the world working on various aspects of inequality, ranging from issues of gender and income to newer forms of inequality thrown up by the changing global economy, and their interface with economic growth
Programme
| 09.00 - 09.25 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09.25 -09.30 | Welcome Address by Professor Sayantan Ghosal |
| Session 1: Human Capital | Session Chair: Anandi Mani |
| 09.30 -10.20 | Sonia Bhalotra (Bristol) Is The Captain of the Men of Death Still At Play? Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure during the Sulfa Drug Revolution in America |
| 10.20 - 11.10 | Sanchari Roy (Warwick) Empowering Women: Inheritance Rights and Female Education in India |
| 11.10 - 11.25 | Coffee |
| Session 2: Entrepreneurship and Informality | Session Chair: Rocco Machiavello |
| 11.25 - 12.15 | Chris Woodruff (Warwick) What is the Cost of Formality? Experimentally Estimating the Demand for Formalization |
| 12.15 - 13.05 | Ajit Mishra (Bath) Informality, Corruption and Inequality |
| 13.05 - 14.05 | Lunch |
| Session 3: Aspirations and Inequality | Session Chair: Sharun Mukand |
| 14.05 - 14.55 | Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse (IFPRI) The Formation of Aspirations – An Empirical Analysis |
| 14.55 - 15.45 | Patricio Dalton (Tilburg) Poverty and Aspirations Failure |
| 15:45 – 16.00 | Coffee |
| Session 3: Identity, Technology, Adoption and Inequality | Session Chair: Sayantan Ghosal |
| 16.00 - 16.50 | Francois Maniquet (CORE, Louvain) with Claudia Hupkau (CORE, Louvain) Poverty, reflected appraisals, and non-take-up |
| 16.50 - 17.40 | Chris Doyle (Warwick) ICT and the Digital Divide: Does it Matter? |
| 18.30 | Drinks |
| 19.00 | Dinner |