Theory and Empirics of Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Speakers

2019

TBC

2018

2018 Sambit Bhattacharyya
Dr. Sambit Bhattacharyya
Department of Economics, University of Sussex

Intensive and extensive margins of mining and development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, with Nemera Mamo and Alexander Moradi

 

Amrita Dhillon, Department of Economics, Kings College, London
Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure: A quasi-field experiment in India’s manufacturing sector, with Farzana Afridi, Sherry Xin Li, Swati Sharma.

Elena Barcena Martin, Department of Statistics and Economics, University of Malaga.
A simple subgroup decomposable measure of downward (and upward) income mobility, with Olga Canto

Florent Bresson, Department of Economics, CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne.
Halving poverty: A robustness assessment of the MDGs’ achievements with respect to poverty alleviation.

Gaston Yalonetzky, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford
Pro-poor growth with intergenerational mobility: the case of overcrowding in Mexico, with Suman Seth and Jacques Silber.
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Caterina Gennaioli, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London.
Competition and conflict: Evidence from a community driven development program in Indonesia, with Teevrat Garg, Stefania Lovo and Gregor Singer.

2017

Emmanuel Flachaire, Department of Economics, Aix-Marseille Université, AMSE GREQAM
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More reliable estimates of inequality measures

Natalie Quinn, Department of Economics and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.

Women’s empowerment in Tunisia: A discrete choice experiment to elicit weights for a multidimensional measure.

Sanchari Roy, Department of Economics, Kings College London.

Mothers and Daughters: Inheritance Reforms, Bargaining Power and Child Education in India

Stefano Caria, Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

The Selection of Talent. Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia, with Girum Abebe and Esteban Ortiz Ospina.

Suman Seth, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.

Poverty measurement with ordinal variables – a class of additively decomposable measures, with Gaston Yalonetzky.
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Francisco Oteiza, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London.
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Information, Social Status and Health Investments: Evidence from an RCT in Nigeria, with Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Melanie Lührmann and Juan Pablo Rud.

2016

Sabina Alkire, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
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Exploring multidimensional poverty in China, with Yangyang Shen

Lucie Gadenne, Department of Economics, University of Warwick and University of California, Berkeley.

The Economics of Ration Shop Systems

Amrita Dhillon, Department of Economics, Kings College London.

Exposing Corruption: The impact of electoral competition on politician behavior, with F. Afridi and E. Solan

Stefano Caria, Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

Curse of anonymity or tyranny of distance? The impact of job search support in urban Ethiopia, with Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn.

Gaston Yalonetzky, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.

Has the world converged? A robust analysis of non-monetary bounded indicators, with Suman Seth.

Florent Bresson, CERDI and Ecole d’économie, Université d’Auvergne.

Measuring robustness for poverty comparisons: Revisiting progresses in poverty reduction during then MDG era, with Anne Viallefont
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Francisco Oteiza, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Weather and Agriculture: Effects and Responses in Rural Peru, with Fernando Aragon and Juan Pablo Rud

2015

Juan Pablo Rud, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Wage dispersion, job creation and development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Pramila Krishnan, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

The natural resource curse revisited: Theory and evidence from India, with A. Dhillon, M. Patnam and C. Perroni.

Natalie Quinn, Department of Economics and St John’s College, University of Oxford.

Representation of a Separable Symmetric Preorder, with Application to Welfare and Poverty Measurement.

Gaston Yalonetzky, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.

Twin Peaks? Looking at the world’s per capita income distribution with the lens of relative bipolarisation, with Jose Martin Lima Velazquez.

Florent Bresson, CERDI and Ecole d’économie, Université d’Auvergne.

More on multidimensional, intertemporal and chronic poverty orderings.

2014

2014 Erlend Berg
Dr. Erlend Berg
Department of Economics, University of Bristol.

Can public works increase wages? Evidence from India, with Sambit Bhattacharyya, Rajasekhar Durgam and Manjula Ramachandra.

 

Suman Seth, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Measuring and Decomposing Inequality among the Multidimensionally Poor using Ordinal Data: A Counting Approach, with Sabine Alkire.

Gaston Yalonetzky, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.
Pro-poorest poverty reduction with counting measures: the non-anonymous case, with Jose Gallegos.

Catherine Porter, School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University.
The impact of drought and food prices on vulnerability in Ethiopia, with Ruth Hill.

Jose Martin Lima Velazquez, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.
The assessment of poverty in Mexico: transition from a unidimensional to a multidimensional measurement approach