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Workshop on Poverty, Inequality and Broad-based Economic Growth Spring, 2002 |
In the study of economic development, it is now widely recognized that the total amount of growth cannot be usefully examined in isolation from the way in which such growth is distributed across different sectors of the population. If the social implications of economic growth are of interest, the usual macro-level aggregates (e.g., GNP growth) must therefore be supplemented by data on changes in both distributional and labor market variables (e.g., poverty, inequality, social mobility, economic well-being, unemployment, employment composition, real earnings levels). It is also important to consider the distribution of noneconomic aspects of well-being, including health access and outcomes, internet access, and lifestyles and consumption practices. This workshop series will feature talks by distinguished scholars in the field as well as follow-up discussions with graduate students regarding possible research topics that emerge from the presentations. To assist students with their dissertation research, the follow-up meetings will be held in conjunction with weekly research seminars in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and the Department of Sociology. Although most of the participants will likely come from the graduate fields of ILR, economics, and sociology, all interested faculty and students are welcome to attend. ---
March 13, 2002
"Does Going to College Make You Smarter: the use of longitudinal data in the estimation of causal effects" 4:30 pm, 302 Uris Hall Christopher Winship Harvard University Professor of Sociology --- April 5, 2002"Positional Capital as a Generator of Earnings Inequality: Theory, Plausible Tests, and Preliminary Evidence" Part of the Welfare and Inequality in Advanced Industrial Countries Workshop Tom DiPrete Duke University Department of Sociology --- April 4, 20021:00 pm, Title and Location TBA Richard Freeman Harvard University Professor of Economics --- April 16-17, 2002Conceptual Challenges in Poverty and Inequality Symposium Room 401, Warren Hall Francois Bourguignon, World Bank Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago Amartya K. Sen, Trinity College William Wilson, Harvard University --- April 19-20, 2002India Economy Conference Yale/Princeton Room at the Statler Hotel "The Provision of Public Goods" Abhijit Banerjee, Professor, MIT "Economic Reform and Decentralization of Governance" Pranab Bardhan, Professor, UC Berkeley "India's Informal Economy in the 1990s" Barbara Harriss-White, Professor, Oxford University "What Does Globalization Mean for SEWA" Renana Jhabvala, SEWA, India, and Ravi Kanbur, Professor, Cornell "The Impact of Economic Reforms on the Hi-Tech Industry in India: A Case Study of Infosys" N.R. Narayana Murthy, CEO, Infosys Technologies "Economic Reforms and Macroeconomic Policy: The Indian Experience" Mihir Rakshit, Professor, ICRA, Calcutta "A Decade of Subnational Fiscal Reform" Govinda Rao, Director, ISEC, Bangalore "Monetary and Financial Sector Reform: A Perspective" Y.V. Reddy, Deputy Governor, RBI "Growth Prospects of the Indian Economy" Jeffrey Sachs, Professor, Harvard Title TBA Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University TBA "Information Technology and India's Economic Development" Nirvikar Singh, Professor, UC Santa Cruz Title TBA Nick Stern, Vice President, The World Bank TBA --- April 22, 2002Larry Katz Harvard University Professor of Economics 4:00 pm, Title and Locatio TBA --- May 3, 2002Mel Oliver 3:30 pm, 302 Uris Hall, Title TBA For more information, please visit the workshop's website.
Organizers: Gary Fields, Chair, Department of International and Comparative Labor, Professor, Labor Economics, School of Industrial and Labor Relations; David B. Grusky, Director, Center for the Study of Inequality, Professor, Department of Sociology |
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© 2001 Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University
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