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Registration- 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) |
Welcoming address |
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Rebeca Grynspan (Director
RBLAC-UNDP) (TBC) |
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) |
Inequality of Life
Chances, Eq.of Opportunity and the Msrment of Social Immobility in LAC |
Miguel Urquiola (Assistant
Professor in Economics, Columbia University) |
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) |
Florencia Torche (New York University) |
Educational Assortative
Mating and Inequality in Latin America |
Guillermo Cruces-(CEDLAS
& Universidad Nacional de La Plata) |
Recent income and consumption inequality trends in Latin America and the
Caribbean |
Hugo Ñopo (IADB) |
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) |
José Cuesta (IADB) |
The Distributive
Consequences of Machismo: A Simulation Analysis of Intra-hh
Discrimination |
Verónica Paz Arauco (UNDP-Bolivia) |
Stratified Social
Mobility: In Search of the New Bolivian Middle Class |
Werner L. Hernani-Limarino
(Fund. ARU-E. en Econ. Política-Bolivia) |
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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Session IV- 17:00-18:30----Chair:
Nelly Aguilera (Centro Interamericano de
Estudios de Seguridad Social-CISS) |
Priscila Hermida (University
of Essex) |
Intergenerational
Transmission of Education: Gender and Ethnicity in Guatemala |
Marcelo Delajara- Centro
de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) |
Empirical Analysis of
Health Inequality A Methodological Survey, and Recent Findings for LA |
David Mayer Foulkes-
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) |
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) |
Gary S. Fields- (Professor
of Labor Economics, Cornell University) |
Intragenerational Income
Mobility in LAC |
Robert Duval-Hernández-Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) |
Inequality and Income
Mobility. The case of Argentina and Mexico |
Ana Navarro (Universidad de San Andrés & Universidad Austral) |
Exploring Income Mobility
Patterns in Argentina using Quantile Regression |
Discussion |
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Coffee Break 10:45-11:00 |
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Session VI- 11:00-13:00----Chair: Edwing Van Gameren (El
Colegio de México) |
Patricio Solís- (El
Colegio de México) |
Social Mobility in Latin
America: recent trends and the research agenda |
Fernando Cortés (El
Colegio de México) |
Occupational mobility in
Mexico: regional and gender issues. |
James Foster- (Professor
of Economics, Vanderbilt University) |
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) |
Jérémie Gignoux (Lab.
d'Economie Appliquée at Paris School of Economics) |
Inequality of Economic
Opportunity in Latin America |
Julio Guzman (U of
Chicago) and Sergio Urzúa (Northwestern University) |
Disentangling the role of
Nature and Nurture when Explaining Inequality |
Juan Carlos Mongan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
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) |
The Transmission of
Economic Status and Inequality in Mexico |
Discussion |
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Coffee Break 16:15-16:30 |
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Session VIII- 16:30-17:30----Chair: Carlos Chiapa (El Colegio de
México) |
Douglas McKee (University of Pennsylvania) |
Do Human Capital
Enrichment Programs Reduce Pov.& Ineq.? The Case of Oportunidades |
IIiana Yaschine (El Colegio de México) |
Intergenerational occupational mobility. The case of beneficiaries of Oportunidades
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Discussion |
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Session IX- 17:30-19:00----Chair: Eduardo Rodriguez Oreggia
(Universidad Iberoamerica) |
Juan Carlos Castillo (Institute
of Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin) |
The empirical approach to
intergenerational justice: a research agenda for Latin America |
Gabriel Buchmann - (PUC-Rio) |
Interaction between
Education Inequality, Fertility Differential and Political Economy |
Silvia Prina- (Case
Western Reserve University) |
The Effects of Human
Capital and Fertility on Long Run Inequality |
Discussion |
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Session X- Wrap up |
Luis Felipe López Calva &
Isidro Soloaga |
"Wrap up" and "further
steps for the Regional Report" |
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Brindis 19:30-
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