ANNOUNCEMENTS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, EVENING Reception

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1 bs_bs_banner Review of Income and Wealth Series 59, Number 3, September 2013 DOI: /roiw ANNOUNCEMENTS International Conference on Income, Wealth and Well-being in Latin America September 11 14, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jointly organized by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) and Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) Preliminary Programme (as of July 4, 2013) NOTE: The updated programme is available at To learn more about this conference including registration and accommodation information, visit the conference website at WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, EVENING Reception THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, MORNING Opening Remarks: Dra. Wasmália Bivar (President, IBGE) and Barbara Fraumeni (Chair, IARIW) Keynote Address: François Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics, France) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, LATE MORNING Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Regional and Global Inequality Chair: Francisco Ferreira (World Bank) Panelists: Nora Lustig (Tulane University, USA), Branko Milanovic (World Bank), and Luis Felipe López-Calva (World Bank) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, AFTERNOON Session 1: Inequality Dynamics 1. Verónica Amarante (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean), Recent Changes in Income Inequality in Latin America: a Factor Components Analysis 2. Pedro HGF Souza (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brazil) and Marcelo Medeiros (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brazil), The Decline in Inequality in Brazil, : the Role of the State 3. Laura K. Rodriguez-Takeuchi (Overseas Development Institute, UK), Emma Samman (Overseas Development Institute, UK) and Amanda 572

2 Lenhardt (Overseas Development Institute, UK), Intragroup Inequality Trends in Three Andean Countries Session 2: Output, Consumption and Price Statistics 1. João Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil) and Hilton Hostalacio Notini (Itaú-Unibanco Holding SA, Brazil), Estimating Brazilian Monthly GDP: a State-Space Approach 2. Leonardo S. de Oliveira (IBGE, Brazil), Debora F. Souza (IBGE, Brazil), Nícia C. H. Brendolin (IBGE, Brazil) and Viviane C. C. Quintaes (IBGE), Construction of Aggregate Consumption Based on Information from the Brazilian Consumer Expenditure Survey and its use in the Measurement of Welfare, Poverty, Inequality and Vulnerability of Families 3. Victor Pina Dias (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil), Érica Diniz Dias (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil) and João Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil), Non-Durable Consumption and Real-Estate Prices in Brazil: Panel-Data Analysis at the State Level Session 3: Cash Transfers 1. Adan Silverio Murillo (University of Minnesota, USA), Social Interactions and Optimal Consumption Under Conditional Cash Transfers Programs 2. Lia Chitolina (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Miguel Nathan Foguel (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brazil) and Naercio Menezes- Filho (University of São Paulo, Brazil), The Impact of the Expansion of the Bolsa Família Program on the Time Allocation of Youths and Labor Supply of Adults 3. Mery Ferrando (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Cash Transfers and School Outcomes: the Case of Uruguay 4. Esther Gehrke (German Development Institute, Germany), Does the Indian Employment Guarantee Reduce Households Risk Exposure? Assessing the Effects of the NREGA on Crop Choice THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, LATE AFTERNOON Session 4: Taxation and Redistribution I 1. Sean Higgins (Tulane University, USA), Grant Driessen (Tulane University, USA), Nora Lustig (Tulane University, USA) and Timothy Smeeding (University of Madison, USA), Comparing Taxation, Transfers, and Redistribution in Brazil and the United States 2. Ricardo Politi (Federal University at ABC, Brazil) and Enlinson Mattos (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil), Equalization Versus Redistribution: Empirical Evidence for Transfers in Brazilian Local Governments 3. Werner L. Hernani-Limarino (Fundación ARU, BOlivia) and Ahmed Eid (Fundación ARU, Bolivia), Unraveling Declining Income Inequality in Bolivia: Do Government Transfers Matter? 573

3 Session 5: Race and Ethnicity 1. Mauricio Reis (Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada, Brazil), Occupation, Field of Study and the Earnings Gap by Race for Workers with College Degrees in Brazil 2. Paola Salardi (University of Sussex, UK), The Evolution of Gender and Racial Occupational Segregation across Formal and non-formal Labour Markets in Brazil 1987 to Carla Canelas (Paris School of Economics, France) and Silvia Salazar (Paris School of Economics, France), The Cost of Ethnicity 4. Carlos Gradín (Universidade de Vigo and EQUALITAS, Spain), Race, Ethnicity, and Living Conditions in Costa Rica Session 6: Health and Education 1. Ricardo Estrada (Paris School of Economics, France) and Jérémie Gignoux (Paris School of Economics, France), Elite Schools and the Formation of Expectations of Returns to Education: Evidence from Mexico City 2. Betina Fresneda (IBGE, Brazil), Educational Opportunities in the Brazilian Upper Secondary Education 3. Mauricio Apablaza (University of Oxford, UK), Florent Bresson (Université d Orléans, France) and Gaston Yalonetzky (University of Leeds, UK), When More Does Not Necessarily Mean Better: Health-related Illfare Comparisons with Non-monotone Welfare Relationships FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, MORNING IBGE Panel Discussion: the topic is yet to be determined Chair: to be determined Panelists: to be determined FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, LATE MORNING Session 7: Inequality of Opportunity 1. Márcia de Carvalho (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Luis Fernando Gamboa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) and Fábio D. Waltenberg (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Equality of Educational Opportunity Employing PISA Data: Taking Both Achievement and Access into Account 2. Florian Wendelspiess Chávez Juárez (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Measuring Inequality of Opportunity with Latent Variables 3. Isidro Soloaga (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico) and Florian Wendelspiess Chávez Juárez (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Scale vs. Translation Invariant Measures of Inequality of Opportunity when the Outcome is Binary 574

4 Session 8: Happiness and Subjective Well-being 1. Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics, France), Sarah Flèche (Paris School of Economics, France) and Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics, France), The Great Happiness Moderation 2. Luna Bellani (CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg) and Carlos De Los Rios (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Peru), Objective and Subjective Poverty: Evidence from Rural Peru 3. Alexandra Cortés Aguilar (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia), Teresa M. García Muñoz (Universidad de Granada, Spain) and Ana I. Moro-Egido (Universidad de Granada, Spain), Heterogeneous Self-employment and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Latin America 4. Mariano Rojas (FLACSO-México and UPAEP, Mexico), The Role of Household and Intra-household Arrangements in Income Comparisons: A Happiness Approach Session 9: Labour Markets 1. Andres Zambrano (Universidad de los Andes), Endogenous Employment and Incomplete Markets 2. Roxana Maurizio (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina), Income Distribution and the Labour Market in Latin American In Times of Economic Growth 3. Olivier Godechot (CNRS, France) and Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics, France), Relative Concerns in and out of the Firm. Lessons from a Matched Employer-Employee French Database FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, AFTERNOON Session 10: Multidimensional Poverty 1. Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford, UK), Mauricio Apablaza (University of Oxford, UK), Satya Chakravarty (Indian Statistical Institute, India) and Gaston Yalonetzky (University of Leeds, UK), Measuring Chronic Multidimensional Poverty: A Counting Approach 2. Barbara Cobo (IBGE, Brazil), Leonardo Athias (IBGE, Brazil) and Gilson Gonçalves de Mattos (IBGE, Brazil), Multidimensional Poverty in Brazil through Fundamental Social Rights Compliance: an Analytic Proposal 3. Svenja Flechtner (University of Flensburg, Germany), 40 Years after Hirschman s Tunnel Parable: Income Inequality, Economic Development and Aspirations Failures in Latin America Session 11: Mobility and Vulnerability 1. Víctor Hugo Pérez (University of Essex, UK) and Isidro Soloaga (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico), Poverty Transitions and Vulnerability: Mexico

5 2. Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia (EGAP, Tecnológico de Monterrey), Bruno López-Videla (EGAP, Tecnológico de Monterrey) and Daniel Prudencio (EGAP, Tecnológico de Monterrey), Labor Vulnerability and the Evolution of the Working Poor in Mexico Session 12: Top Incomes and Polarization 1. Facundo Alvaredo (Paris School of Economics, France) and Liliana Cano (University of Toulouse, France), High Incomes and Personal Taxation in a Developing Economy: Ecuador Juliana Londoño (Paris School of Economics, France) and Facundo Alvaredo (Paris School of Economics, France), High Incomes and Personal Taxation in a Developing Economy: Colombia F. Clementi (University of Macerata, Italy) and F. Schettino (Second University of Naples, Italy), Income Polarization in Brazil, : A Distributional Analysis using PNAD Data FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, LATE AFTERNOON Session 13: Taxation and Redistribution II 1. Pedro E. Moncarz (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina), Implicit Redistribution within Argentina s Social Security System: a Micro-simulation Exercise 2. Carla Canelas (Paris School of Economics, France), François Gardes (Paris School of Economics, France) and Silvia Salazar (Paris School of Economics, France), A Microsimulation on Tax Reforms in LAC Countries: A New Approach Based on Full Expenditures 3. Sean Higgins (Tulane University, USA) and Nora Lustig (Tulane University, USA), Measuring Impoverishment: An Overlooked Dimension of Fiscal Incidence 4. Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) and José Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil), Taxation, Inequality and the Illusion of the Social Contract in Brazil Session 14: Distribution Dynamics 1. Raúl Fuentes (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile), Tapas Mishra (Swansea University, UK), Javier Scavia (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile) and Juan Berríos, Embodied Technological Progress and the Economic Development of Poor Countries 2. Stephen Klasen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany), Carlos Villalobos Barría (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) and Sebastian Vollmer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany), Distribution dynamics of the per capita income in Mexico Pedro Olinto (World Bank), Jaime Saavedra (World Bank) and Gabriel Lara-Ibarra (World Bank), Accelerating Poverty Reduction in a Less Poor World: The Roles of Growth and Inequality 576

6 Session 15: Distributions in Space 1. Abhimanyu Dadu (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research) and Namrata Gulati (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Inequality, Neighbourhoods and Variation in Prices 2. Juan Mauricio Ramirez (Fedesarrollo, Colombia) and Yadira Diaz (University of Essex, UK), Decentralization in Colombia: A Search for Equity in a Bumpy Economic Geography 3. Guilherme França dos Santos Paiva (IBGE, Brazil), Denise Britz do N. Silva (IBGE, Brazil) and Carmem Aparecida Feijó (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), Consumption and Socioeconomic Classification in Brazil: a Study Based on the Brazilian Family Expenditure Survey FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, EVENING Farewell dinner SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Excursion 577