Each parallel block runs three concurrent sessions of four papers. The final presenter in each session serves as chair.
| Lecture Theatre | Butler Room | Chester Room |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1: Measuring Inequality: Global Data and Methods | Session 2: Wealth Inequality & Taxation | Session 3: Institutions, Technology & Inequality |
Dean Jolliffe (World Bank) Measuring Global Inequality: How Accounting for Inequality Within the Household Affects the Global Profile |
Asher Dvir-Djerassi (University of Michigan) Curbing Wealth Inequality in the 21st Century: Would Wealth Taxation Be Sufficient? |
Eugenio Piga (UC San Diego) Prediction Technologies and Inequality Inside Firms |
Koen Decancq (University of Antwerp) The Evolution of Global Inequality in Well-Being: A Copula-Based Approach |
Juan C. Palomino (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Wealth Concentration, Public Preferences and the Design of a Wealth Tax |
Nicolás Soler (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Suspect Families: Do Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Have Unintended Consequences for the Reproduction of Inequalities? |
Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford) Child Deprivations & Intrahousehold Inequalities |
Kristoffer Berg (University of Cambridge) Taxing Deferred and Mobile Capital Gains |
Bastian Betthaeuser (Sciences Po, Paris) Educational Expansion and Inequality During the Rise and Fall of State Socialism in Europe |
Stephen P. Jenkins (London School of Economics)Chair Assessing the Statistical Significance of Inequality Differences |
Irene Bucelli (London School of Economics)Chair Evaluating Evidence on the Harms of Extreme Wealth |
Juliet-Nil Uraz (London School of Economics)Chair Justice Under Austerity: The Impacts of Reduced Access to Legal Assistance in England and Wales |
| Lecture Theatre | Butler Room | Chester Room |
|---|---|---|
| Session 4: Earnings Inequality & Intergenerational Transmission | Session 5: Mechanisms of Social Stratification | Session 6: Poverty |
Arnaud Lefranc (CY Cergy Paris) Inequality of Opportunity Revisited: Unobserved Family Circumstances and Long-Term Income Opportunities in Sweden |
Joshua Choper (University College London) Network Hiring and Intergenerational Persistence |
Bruce Bradbury (UNSW Sydney) Low Wages and Child Poverty |
Markus Jäntti (Stockholm University) Intergenerational Income Mobility and Assortative Mating in Sweden |
Matias Ciaschi (University of Oxford) Social Mobility, Misallocation of Ability, and Economic Performance |
Gabriele Mariani (University of Antwerp) When the State Steps Back: Shared Living Arrangements and Income Pooling as a Buffer Against Poverty |
Michele Bavaro (Scuola Normale Superiore) Parents’ Education and Children’s Household Income Across Cohorts in Europe |
Maria Cristina D’Aguanno (University of Luxembourg) Does Social Protection Fuel Income Volatility? Evidence from European Tax-Benefit Systems |
Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah (World Bank) How Many Children, Men, and Women Are Living in Poverty Globally? An Approach Combining Structural and Machine-Learning Models |
Wendy Carlin (University College London)Chair Fair Inequality: Measuring Market Earnings Disparities Not Due to Gender and Parental Advantage in 17 Economies |
Daniel McArthur (University of York)Chair Who Gets to Move to Opportunity? Unequal Patterns of Geographic Mobility and the Reproduction of Advantage |
Kitty Stewart (London School of Economics)Chair The Limits to Work as a Route Out of Poverty for Families with Children: Evidence from the UK |
| Lecture Theatre | Butler Room | Chester Room |
|---|---|---|
| Session 7: Perceptions & Dimensions of Inequality | Session 8: Redistribution, Fiscal Policy & Inequality | Session 9: Labor Market Institutions & Wages |
Alexi Gugushvili (University of Oslo) Intergenerational Mobility in Respondents’ Own Words: LLM-Assisted Evidence from Austria, Denmark, and Spain |
Julian Le Grand (London School of Economics) Universal Basic Capital and the Privatisation of Welfare |
Ignacio Gonzalez (American University) Monopsony Power Wealth |
Moritz Hörl (Vienna University of Economics and Business) What the Public Means by Social Mobility: Dimensions, Indicators and the Great Gatsby Curve |
Will Cook (Manchester Metropolitan University) Welfare Cuts and Children’s Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Two-Child Limit |
Lukas Lehner (University College London) The Return of Wage Compression in High-Income Countries |
Joan Costa-Font (London School of Economics) Narratives of Inequality |
Daria Popova (University of Essex) From Pandemic to Cost-of-Living Crisis: The Distributional Impact of UK Tax and Benefit Policies, 2019–2023 |
Kilian Weil (Hertie School) Sectoral Bargaining and the Wage Structure |
Karin Heitzmann (Vienna University of Economics and Business)Chair Beyond Single Metrics: Visualizing the Many Dimensions of Poverty |
Philippe Van Kerm (University of Luxembourg)Chair What Can Money Buy? Inequality and Fiscal Policy Implications of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission |
Birgit Pfau-Effinger (University of Hamburg)Chair Gender Differences in Parental Labour Market Participation: Advancing the Theoretical Framework |
These sessions bring together pairs of scholars to deliberate on contested questions in inequality research, exposing the audience to competing perspectives and opening space for the research agendas that emerge when scholars engage directly with one another’s arguments.
| Lecture Theatre | Butler Room | Chester Room |
|---|---|---|
| Session 10: Social Mobility: Evidence & Long-Run Trends | Session 11: Wealth, Capital Income & Social Structure | Session 12: Climate and Poverty |
Miles Corak (City University of New York) When Is the Future Written? Upward Mobility, College Attainment, and Sensitive Periods in Child Development |
Marco Ranaldi (University College London) Capitalization of the World: Global Distribution of Income from Property, 2000–2020 |
W. Matthew Alampay Davis (University of Oxford) Global Income Distributions and Social Welfare Under Climate Change |
Javier Terrero-Dávila (OECD) Who Gets Ahead? Cross-Country Evidence on Intragenerational Income Mobility from Administrative Records |
Nhat An Trinh (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) From Work to Wealth? Gender, Generation, and the Institutional Structuring of Earnings–Wealth Linkages |
Diana C. Garcia Rojas (World Bank) Toward a Granular and Comparable Global Poverty Map: Remote Sensing and Estimation Across Borders and Time |
Richard Nennstiel (University of Lausanne) Sibling Similarity in Education in Europe: Trends Across Birth Cohorts (1945–1992) and a Test of the Great Gatsby Curve |
Wesley Stubenbord (Cornell University) Silver Spoons, Bootstraps, and Billionaires: The Social Origins of the Contemporary American Economic Elite |
Nicolas Werquin (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Extreme Poverty in Wealthy Nations: Evidence from France |
Maria Vaalavuo (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare)Chair Dynasties of Poverty: The Concentration of Poverty in the Extended Family of Poor Children |
Rourke O’Brien (Yale University)Chair Wealth Inequality and Fertility in the USA, 1970–2020 |
Paolo Brunori (University of Florence)Chair The Unequal Effects of Climate on Education in Italy |
| Lecture Theatre | Butler Room | Chester Room |
|---|---|---|
| Session 13: Inequality Trends: Cross-National and Comparative Evidence | Session 14: Measuring Wealth & Top Incomes | Session 15: Preferences, Redistribution & Inequality |
Joe Hasell (University of Oxford) Triangulating Global Inequality: Reconciling World Inequality Database and World Bank Data on Global Incomes |
Yonatan Berman (King’s College London) Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality Based on the Distribution of Estates |
Jakob Dirksen (LSE and University of Oxford) Are Distributive Preferences Domain-Specific? |
Jonathan Cribb (Institute for Fiscal Studies) Unpacking Trans-Atlantic Income Inequality |
Eleni Karagiannaki (London School of Economics) The Ethnic Wealth Divide in the UK: Mapping Disparities Across Time, Age and Immigrant Generations |
Michael Förster (Sciences Po Paris) Rising Tolerance, Divided Views: Perceived and Preferred Earnings Inequality and the Polarisation of Opinions across Europe |
Louis Sirugue (London School of Economics) International Variation in Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Meta-Analysis |
Arun Advani (CenTax) Trusts and the Measurement of Top Incomes and Wealth: Evidence from UK Administrative Data |
Christopher Pulliam (Columbia University) Universal Cash Transfers and Food Hardship: Evidence from Google Trends Data |
Gerlinde Verbist (University of Antwerp)Chair Inequality: What Have We Done? A Decade After Atkinson’s Agenda |
Roberto Iacono (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)Chair Measuring Wealth: Income Capitalization with Heterogeneous Rates of Return |
Sarah Kuypers (University of Antwerp)Chair Glorious for Whom? Income Inequality in the Netherlands During les Trente Glorieuses |
The final presenter in each session serves as chair. All times Oxford local (BST). Programme subject to change.