Programme

Conference programme for Paris, 6-8 July 2011

Please find attached the final programme for this year's congress. We look forward to meeting you in Paris.

Conference programme (PDF document, 100 KB, 30 June 2011)

Conference presentations

Angel Gurria's Welcome Speech - Better policies for an inclusive and green world economy

Aid and Development

• Aid for Resources or Aid for the Poor, Fuchs (PPT document)
• Disability and Poverty in Developing Countries, Mitra (PPT document)
• Policies for Social Inclusion and Human Development, Dima (PDF document)
• Measuring Patterns of Local Human and Sustainable Development, Biggeri (PPT document)

Discrimination

• Discrimination amoung Survivors and its Startling Consequences, Hofer

Environment and Economic Geography

• Income and Preferences for the Environment, Moro (PDF document)
• The Power of Bad Example, Vollaard (PDF document)
• Aspatial Segregation Index Wars, Watts (PPTX document)
• Equity in the City, Michelangeli (PDF document)

Happiness, Autonomy and Time Use

• What Makes the French So Unhappy, Senik (PPT document)
• Capabilities Model of Female Empowerment, Ballon Fernandez (PPT document)
• Environment Land Use and Wellbeing in Europe, Brereton (PPT document)
• Explaining Regional Differences in Spanish Life Satisfaction, Cunado (PPT document)
• Do Danes and Italians Rate Satisfaction in the Same Way?, Angelini (PDF document)
• Time Use and Children’s Wellbeing, Galvez (PPT document)
• Relationship Between Subjective Well-being and Life Events, De Jonge (PPT document)
• Pursuing Happiness, Schubert (PPT document)
• The Production of Wellbeing, Prinz (PDF document)
• Usefullness of a Happy Income Index, Bunger (PDF document)
• Membership of Minority Religious Groups and Happiness in India, Migheli (PPT document)

Health

• Deriving Distributional Weights for QALYs, Lancsar (PPTX document)
• Will Exposure to Competition Improve Quality of Care, Drange Hole (PPT document)
• Life Expectancy and Welfare, Romanelli (PDF document)
• Employed and Happy Despite Weak Health, Pollak (PPTX document)
• Health, Leisure and Wellbeing, Watkins (PPT document)
• Long Term Care: Famility Structure and Cultural Differences, Barham (PDF document)
• Health care systems: efficiency and policies, Joumard (PPTX document)

Households and Work

• Balancing Work and Childcare, Covarrubius (PPTX document)
• Gender Specific Effects of Working Hours on Family Happiness, Rudolf (PPTX document)

Inequality and Risk

• Economic Wellbeing in Italy: Insecurity and Intergenerational Inequality, Berloffa
• Sustainability of Economic Growth and Inequality in Incomes Distribution, Razvan (PPT document)
• Inequality Aversion and Risk Aversion, Ramos/Ferrer-i-Carbonell
• Inequality Aversion and Separability in Social Risk Evaluation, Zuber (PDF document)
• What Explains Regional Inequality in Uganda?, Gaddis (PPTX document)
• Shaping Persistant Earnings Inequalities, Sologon (PDF document)
• Trade or Wage Inequality: Myth or Mirage?, Tomat (PPT document)
• Threshold Level of Income in Income Distribution, Zheng (PPT document)

Institutions, Evaluations and Experiments

• Funding Competititon and the Efficiency of NGOs, Oehler (PPT document)
• Is the Fight Against Drug Cartels Beneficial?, Klann (PPT document)
• Comparing the Evolution of Welfare States in Europe, Zemmour
• Corporatist Scandinavian Welfare Model in Expansion, Hartmann-Hirsch
• Can Markets Secure Human Rights, Branco (PPT document)
• Social Capital to Explain Market Failures, Lopez-Rodriguez (PPTX document)
• Are Financial Aids to Low Income Family Students Effective?, Zanini (PDF document)

Labour and Education

• Effect of Minimum Wage on Gender Gap in UK and Ireland, Bargain (PDF document)
• Higher Education Decisions in the UK around the 2004 Higher Education Act, Chevalier (PPT document)
• Long Term Effects of Class Size, Oosterbeek (PDF document)
• Hidden Redistribution in Higher Education, Perotta
• Education Inequality Amoung Different Social Groups, Mayagishima (PDF document)
• New Welfare Implications of a Capability Based Approach to Reconnecting High Disadvantage Job Seekers to the Mainstream Economy, Williamson (PPT document)

Migration

• Conceptual Framework, Kuschminder (PPT document)
• Welfare of Afghan Burundian and Others in Netherlands, Fransen (PPT document)
• Emigration of Skilled Labour Under Risk Aversion, Driouchi (PPT document)
• Workforce Migration and Effects on Education Outsourcing, Oprean (PPTX document)
• Immigrant Wage Assimilation Patterns in Germany, Zibrowius (PDF document)

Motivation

• Modelling Charitable Donations, Taylor (PPT document)
• Similar Aspirations and Different Aspirations to Redistribution, Francon (PDF document)
• Volunteering and Wellbeing: A Panel Approach, Rosemberg-Montes (PPTX document)
• Living in the Garden of Eden: Mineral Resources and Individualism, Sangnier (PDF document)
• Persistent Attitudes and Behavior, Weiss (PDF document)
• Voluntary Contributions to Private Goods: The Economics of Blood Donation, Owusu (PDF document)

Multi-Dimensionality

• Measurement Theory and Capabilities On Measuring Discrimination, Pelouso (PDF document)
• Generalised Measures of Wage Differentials, Kern
• Multi-Dimensional Measurement of Richness, Pestel (PDF document)
• Multi-dimensional Poverty Indicator Development, Tenaglia (PPT document)
• Weights in Multi-dimensional Indices, Bellani (PDF document)
• Multi-dimensional Wellbeing Verholfstadt Innovative Measurement Method of Basic Needs Mixing Objective and Subjective Information, Muller (PPT document)
• On Multi-Dimensional Inequality with Variable Household Weight, Savaglio (PDF document)
• Copula Based Measurement of Dependence Between Dimensions of Wellbeing, Decanq (PDF document)
• Theories of Justice and the Measurement of Wellbeing, Btum (PPT document)
• Distribution Sensitivity of Rank Dependent Poverty Measures, Bosmans (PDF document)
• Robust Multi-dimensional Poverty Comparisons in Sixteen Indian States, Rippin (PPT document)
• Opportunity Sensitive Poverty Measurement, Lugo (PPTX document)

Pensions, Aging and Intergenerational Transfers

• Old People’s Participation in Disability Benefits, Zantomio (PPT document)
• Unfunded Pension and Labour Supply, Touze (PDF document)

Poverty and Personal Finance

• Social Interaction and Financial Asset Holding, Brown (PPT document)
• Is Perceived Financlal Inadequacy Persistent?, Kaya (PDF document)
• Conceptions of Poverty: Comparing classifications of people, Rojas (PPTX document)
• Dynamics and Persistance of Poverty in Luxembourg, Fusco

Social Choice and Economic Theory

• Quasi-Utilitarian Social Choice with Approximate Interpersonal Comparison of Welfare Gains and Losses, Pivato (PDF document)
• Domination and Conflict, Cubel Condorcet Admissibility: Majoritarian Decisions in the Absence of a Majority, Puppe (PDF document)
• Political Equilibrium Social Security with Migration, Renstrom (PDF document)
• Revisiting Nash Wage Negotiations in Matching Models, Baumann (PDF document)
• Welfare State and School Choice: Why not Use Mechanism Design? Poder

Taxation

• Optimal Taxation and Food Policy, Allen (PPT document)
• Fair Taxation and Partial Control, Peichl Taxation and Labour Force Participation, Colonna (PDF document)
• Negative Income Taxes, Inequality and Poverty, Angyridis (PDF document)