Friday, October 4
MIT Sloan Building #E51-095
8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:45: Abhijit Banerjee: "History, Institutions and Economic Performance: Colonial Land Tenure Systems and Independent India" [~598k pdf]
10:45 - 11:15: coffee break
11:15 - 1:00: William J. Wilson: "The Roots of Racial Tensions: Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods" [~493k pdf]
1:00 - 2:30: catered lunch
2:30
- 4:15: Philippe van Parijs: "Basic
Income: A Simple and Powerful Idea for the 21st Century" [~252k
pdf]
4:30 - 5:30: (Network Members only) Meeting
Saturday, October 5
MIT Sloan Building #E51-095
8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:45: Tony Atkinson: "Top Incomes in the United Kingdom over the Twentieth Century" [~1.1MB pdf]
10:45 - 11:15: coffee break
11:15
- 1:00: Francois Bourguignon: "Inequality
of Outcomes, Inequality of Opportunities, and Intergenerational Educational
Mobility in Brazil" [~1.1MB pdf]. See also
Bourguignon's Table 6.1 [~81k
pdf] and all other tables
and figures [~1 MB pdf].
1:00 - 2:30: catered lunch
2:30
- 4:15 Gerard Roland: "Comparative Politics and Inequality"
7:00:
cocktail reception and
7:30: group dinner: Restaurant TBA
Sunday, October 6
MIT Sloan Building #E51-095
8:15
- 9:00: continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:45: Philippe Aghion: "Distance to Frontier, Selection and Economic Growth" [~539k pdf] and figures. [~106k pdf]
10:45 - 11:00: coffee break
11:00 - 12:45: Roland Bénabou: "Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics"
