Alba di Canazei (TN), Italy

Winter School 2015: Diversity, Fairness and Well-being

when 12 January 2015 - 15 January 2015
language English
duration 1 week
fee EUR 300

Winter School on Inequality and Collective Welfare Theory (IT10)

Organizers
* Department of Economics of The University of Verona
* CEPS-INSTEAD Research Center
* The Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ)
* LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
* Statistics Norway
* Thema (Université de Cergy - Pontoise; ANR TRANSINEQ project)
* ZEW (Centre for European Economic Research)

Main Issues
* Multidimensional inequality and well-being
* Diversity, segregation, social networks
* Inequality perceptions with experimental and survey evidence
* Social comparisons, fairness and redistribution

Applied Sessions:
* Redistribution in microsimulation models with behavioural responses
* Statistical tools for dissimilarity analysis
* Network data analysis
More info on official website

Course leader

Claudio Zoli and Eugenio Peluso, University of Verona

Target group

PhD students. An additional limited number of places is reserved to senior faculty members

Course aim

provide junior and senior researchers with the opportunity to discuss issues concerning:
* Multidimensional inequality and well-being;
* Diversity, segregation and social networks;
* Inequality perceptions with experimental and survey evidence;
* Social comparisons, fairness and redistribution.

Fee info

EUR 300: includes tuition, shuttle bus transportation from Verona to Canazei (leaving on Sunday January 12 in the afternoon and returning on Friday January 17 in the morning) and the social dinner
EUR 500: includes base registration plus a double (or triple) room accommodation together with another participant and half-board (breakfast and dinner).