| Thursday February 28, 2008 |
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Room 5524- El Colegio de México-- 8:00-8:45 |
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| Welcoming
and Session I- 8:45-10:45---- Chair: Rodolfo de la Torre (UNDP-Mexico) |
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| Welcoming address |
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| Rebeca Grynspan-(Director
RBLAC-UNDP) |
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Regional Human Development Report and UNDP´s
Priorities in LAC |
| Luis
Felipe López Calva (Chief Economist RBLAC-UNDP) & Isidro Soloaga
(El Colegio de México) |
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LAC
2009 Regional Human Development Report on Inequality |
| Jacques
Silber- (Department of Economics BAR-ILAN University) |
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Inequality
of Life Chances, Eq.of Opportunity and the Msrment of Social Immobility
in LAC |
| Miguel
Urquiola- (Assistant Professor in Economics, Columbia University) |
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Mapping
educational quality into quantity-related performance in LAC. |
| Discussion |
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| Coffee Break 10:45-11:00 |
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| Session
II- 11:00-12:45----Chair: Isidro Soloaga (El Colegio de México) |
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| Florencia
Torche (New York University) |
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Educational
Assortative Mating and Inequality in Latin America |
| Guillermo Cruces-(CEDLAS
& Universidad Nacional de La Plata) |
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Recent income and consumption inequality
trends in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Hugo
Ñopo (IADB) |
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Using Pseudo-Panels
to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America |
| Discussion |
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| Lunch 13:00-14:30
(by invitation only) |
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| Session
III- 14:30-16:30----Chair: Stefano Pettinato (RBLAC-UNDP) |
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| José
Cuesta (IADB) |
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The Distributive
Consequences of Machismo: A Simulation Analysis of Intra-hh Discrimination |
| Verónica
Paz Arauco (UNDP-Bolivia) |
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Stratified
Social Mobility: In Search of the New Bolivian Middle Class |
| Werner
L. Hernani-Limarino (Fund.ARU-E. en Econ.Política-Bolivia) |
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Permanent
effects from Colonial discrimination against indigenous population in
Bolivia |
| Discussion |
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| Coffee Break 16:30-17:00 |
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IV- 17:00-18:30----Chair: Nelly Aguilera (Centro Interamericano de Estudios
de Seguridad Social-CISS) |
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| Priscila
Hermida (University of Essex) |
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Intergenerational
Transmission of Education: Gender and Ethnicity in Guatemala |
| Marcelo
Delajara- (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas-CIDE) |
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Empirical
Analysis of Health Inequality A Methodological Survey, and Recent Findings
for LA |
| David
Mayer Foulkes- (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas-CIDE) |
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Determinants
of health inequality in LAC countries |
| Discussion |
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| Friday February 29, 2008 |
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| Session
V- 9:00-10:30----Chair: Luis Felipe López Calva (UNDP-LAC Regional
Bureau) |
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| Gary
S. Fields- (Professor of Labor Economics, Cornell University) |
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Intragenerational
Income Mobility in LAC |
| Robert
Duval-Hernández Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
(CIDE) |
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Inequality
and Income Mobility. The case of Argentina and Mexico |
| Ana
Navarro (Universidad de San Andrés & Universidad Austral) |
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Exploring
Income Mobility Patterns in Argentina using Quantile Regression |
| Discussion |
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| Coffee Break 10:45-11:00 |
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VI- 11:00-13:00----Chair: Edwin Van Gameren (El Colegio de México) |
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| Patricio
Solís- (El Colegio de Mexico) |
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Social
Mobility in Latin America: recent trends and the research agenda |
| Fernando Cortés
(El Colegio de México) |
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Occupational mobility in Mexico: regional
and gender issues. |
| James
Foster- (Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University) |
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Measurement
of inequality in Human development |
| Discussion |
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| Lunch 13:00-14:30
(by invitation only) |
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Session
VII- 14:30-16:15----Chair David Mayer-Foulkes (CIDE)
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| Jérémie
Gignoux (Lab. d'Economie Appliquée at Paris School of Economics)
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Inequality
of Economic Opportunity in Latin America |
| Julio
Guzman (U of Chicago) and Sergio Urzúa (Northwestern University)
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Disentangling
the role of Nature and Nurture when Explaining Inequality |
| Juan
Carlos Mongan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
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Towards
the equality of educational opportunities: the case of the province of
Buenos Aires |
| René
Zenteno (Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies-UC-San Diego) |
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The Transmission
of Economic Status and Inequality in Mexico |
| Discussion |
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| Coffee Break 16:15-16:30 |
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VIII- 16:30-17:30----Chair: Carlos Chiapa (El Colegio de México) |
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| Douglas
McKee (University of Pennsylvania) |
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Do
Human Capital Enrichment Programs Reduce Pov.& Ineq.? The Case of
Oportunidades |
| Iliana
Yaschine (El Colegio de México) |
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Intergenerational
occupational mobility. The case of beneficiaries of Oportunidades |
| Discussion |
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IX- 17:30-19:00----Chair: Eduardo Rodriguez Oreggia (Universidad Iberoamerica) |
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| Juan
Carlos Castillo (Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin) |
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The
empirical approach to intergenerational justice: a research agenda for
Latin America |
| Gabriel
Buchmann - (PUC-Rio) |
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Interaction
between Education Inequality, Fertility Differential and Political Economy |
| Discussion |
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| Session
X- Wrap up |
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| Luis Felipe López
Calva & Isidro Soloaga |
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"Wrap up" and "further steps
for the Regional Report" |
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| Brindis 19:30- |
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Schedule in pdf (all on 1 page)