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Workshop - Economic Challenges of Demographic Inequalities

CIRANO

From Thursday 13 Oct 2022 at 8:30AM
To Friday 14 Oct 2022 at 12PM

This workshop, organized by Raquel Fonseca (ESG-UQAM and CIRANO) and Marie-Louise Leroux (ESG-UQAM and CIRANO), was on research related to the economic challenges of demographic inequalities. The presentations were related to gender inequalities, intergenerational inequalities, income and wealth inequalities, and health inequalities.

 

Raquel Fernandez

Raquel Fernández is an economist and currently the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University. She is also a fellow of the Econometric Society.

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Maripier Isabelle

Maripier Isabelle is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Université Laval and holds the Sentinel North Research Chair in Economics and Brain Health. She is also a researcher at the CERVO Research Centre, a member of the Centre for Research on Risk, Economic Issues and Public Policy and an affiliate of the Canadian Centre for Health Economics. D. in Economics from the University of Toronto and did postdoctoral work at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth. Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth Inequality at INSEAD in France.

Her research interests include guiding the evaluation and implementation of public policy. Her research focuses on issues at the intersection of health economics, brain health, labor economics and social inequality. Among other things, she studies the causal links between changes in income distributions, physical and mental health trajectories and human capital accumulation. She also works to isolate the impact of changes in individuals' relative and absolute income on their physical and mental health, health care consumption and socioeconomic mobility. Her research also contributes to a better understanding of the impact of different financial incentives and price signals on the allocation of resources within health care systems, on physician behavior and labor supply, and on the nature and volume of care provided to patients.

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Paul Makdissi

Paul Makdissi holds a Ph.D. in economics from Université Laval and is a full professor of economics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa.

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Panos Margaris

Panos is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University and he is interested in Macroeconomics, Economics of Health and Public Finance.

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Vegard Nygaard

Holder of a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Minnesota, Mr. Nygaard is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Houston.His research interests are Inequality, macroeconomics, health economics, public finance, regional economics.

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Markus Poschke

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2008, Markus Poschke is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute, his research interests are in macroeconomics broadly, in particular inequality, taxation, growth theory, firm dynamics, entrepreneurship, structural change, and the macroeconomics of labour markets.

He received the Bank of Canada's Governor's Award in 2018. Institut universitaire européen

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Thepthida Sopraseuth

Holder of a Ph.D. in Economics, Thepthida is professor of economics at CY Cergy Paris Université and her researchs interest are international macroeconomics, exchange rate dynamics, labor market dynamics (Life-cycle, Retirement behavior, Entrepreneurship, Job Polarization), macroeconomic impact of financial frictions and bounded rationality (learning and imperfect information)

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Gema Zamarro

Gema Zamarro (Ph.D. Economics, CEMFI & UNED, Madrid (Spain), 2006) is a Professor in Education Reform and Economics at the University of Arkansas and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality at the Department of Education Reform. Dr. Zamarro is also adjunct Senior Economist at the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR). Prior to joining the University of Arkansas, Zamarro was a Senior Economist at CESR (2013-2014), an Economist at the RAND Corporation (2007-2013; Adjunct Economist 2013-2016) and Professor of Econometrics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy (2007-2013), as well as, assistant professor in the Department of Econometrics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a junior research fellow at NETSPAR (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement) (2005-2007). Dr. Zamarro has performed research on applied econometrics in the areas of education and labor economics. She has completed studies on heterogeneity in returns to education, on the relationship between teacher quality and student performance, on the effect of school closing policies on student outcomes, on the properties of value-added methods for estimating teacher quality, on the effect of dual-language immersion programs on student outcomes, and on the causal effect of retirement on health, among others. Her current research focuses on the measurement and development of character skills, determinants of gender gaps in STEM, the study of teacher labor markets and teacher pensions, and gender and education impacts of the current COVID-19 crisis. Dr. Zamarro’s work has been featured numerous times in the media including Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post of Chicago, Chalkbeat, NPR, Scientific American, CBS news, 4029News, Telemundo, KUAF radio, KTLA news, Kqed, EL Pais, Oregorian, and Arkansas Democrat Gazette, among others.

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Program

Thursday, October 13
8:30 - 8:55
Arrival and Breakfast
Thursday, October 13
8:55 - 9:00
Opening words
Thursday, October 13
9:00 - 10:00
“Causes and consequences of life expectancy inequality"
Vegard Nygaard
Thursday, October 13
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
Thursday, October 13
10:15 - 11:15
Gender Inequalities during the Pandemic
Gema Zamarro
Thursday, October 13
11:15 - 11:30
Coffee break
Thursday, October 13
11:30 - 12:30
“Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment”
Raquel Fernandez
Thursday, October 13
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Thursday, October 13
14:00 - 15:00
“Changes in Lifetime Earnings Profiles of the U.S. Workers since 1940”
Thepthida Sopraseuth
Thursday, October 13
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee Break
Thursday, October 13
15:15 - 16:15
“Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the U.S.”
Thursday, October 13
17:30 - 17:30
Conference dinner (on invitation)
Friday, October 14
8:30 - 9:00
Breakfast
Friday, October 14
9:00 - 10:00
“Is it all relative? The health impact of changes to absolute and relative income”
Friday, October 14
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
Friday, October 14
10:15 - 11:15
“Can Wealth Buy Health? A Model of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Investments in Health”
Panos Margaris
Friday, October 14
11:15 - 11:30
Coffee break
Friday, October 14
11:30 - 12:30
“Stratification, social class at birth and equality of opportunity”
Paul Makdissi
Friday, October 14
12:30 - 12:45
Closing words

Location


1130 Rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal, QC H3A 2M8, Canada

Resources

Workshop on the Economic Challenges of Demographic Inequalities
The workshop will take place during one and half day on Thursday, October 13th and Friday, October 14th, 2022, and will feature 8 academic presentations. Each presentation will be allocated 1 hour including a 15 minute devoted to questions from the audience.
Workshop on the Economic Challenges of Demographic Inequalities
Cet atelier aura lieu pendant une journée et demie, les jeudi 13 et vendredi 14 octobre 2022. 8 présentations seront données. Chaque présentation durera 1 heure, incluant 15 minutes de questions de l’audience