Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Cosponsored by ELSE, IFS, and the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Inequality and Economic Performance
0830 - 1015: Philippe Aghion: "Technology, Knowledge, and Inequality" [~419k pdf]; with Gianluca Violante, UCL
Discussant: Eve Caroli, LEA - INRA, Paris
1015 - 1045: Coffee break
1045 - 1230: Francis Kramarz, INSEE: "Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in France and in the United States" [~67k pdf]
Discussant: Michael Kremer
1230 - 1400: Non-members' lunch break
Business meeting over lunch (MacArthur network members only)
1400 - 1545: John Van Reenen, UCL and IFS: "Human Capital and Organisational Change: Evidence from British and French Establishments" [~405k pdf]; with Eve Caroli
Discussant: Steve Nickell, LSE
1545 - 1615: Tea break
1615 - 1800: James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, and Lance Lochner, University of Rochester: "General-Equilibrium Cost-Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies"
Discussant: Orazio Attanasio, UCL and IFS
1900: Dinner (Speaker: Joseph Stiglitz on "Labor Supply Responses to Unemployment" [~357k pdf, plus figures]; Figure 1 | Figure 2 | Figures 3&4 | Figures 5&6)
Bertorelli's Café Italien at 19 - 23 Charlotte Street in London
0830 - 1015: Jean-Marc Robin, INRA - LEA: "Using Search Theory to Compute Lifetime Labor Values: Inequality Did Not Rise in the U.S." [~642k pdf]
Discussant: Stephen Machin, UCL and LSE
1015 - 1045: Coffee break
1045 - 1230: Richard Blundell, UCL, IFS and UCB: "Inequality and Uncertainty: Short-Run Uncertainty and Permanent Inequality in the U.S. and Britain;" with Ian Preston, UCL
Discussant: Jerome Adda, UCL
1230 - 1400: Non - members' lunch break
Business meeting over lunch (MacArthur network members only)
1400 - 1545: Daron Acemoglu, MIT: "Patterns of Skill Premia"
Discussant: Roland Benabou
1545 - 1615: Tea break
1615 - 1800: Thomas Piketty, CEPREMAP: "Attitudes to Inequality in France"
Discussant: Karl Ove Moene, University of Oslo
1900: Dinner
Chez Gerard at 8 Charlotte Street in London
Note: Many of the papers are in PDF format. You can download the free PDF reader from Adobe Acrobat. If you are unable to read/access PDF format, you may request a copy of the document by contacting Sally Alcalá at salcala@berkeley.edu.
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