@Equal project disseminates findings at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics

@Equal project disseminates findings at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics

Mon, 17 June 2024Tue, 18 June 2024

Researchers with The impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance – @EQUAL project present their WIDER Working Papers at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

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Presentations take place over three parallel sessions organized by the project, covering several of the project's studies. 

Parallel 3.1 – @EQUAL 
Chair – Vanesa Jorda Gil 
Laurence Roope: From the Bottom 40 to Inequality Lines: Sharing Prosperity Globally and Domestically 
David Castells-Quintana: Concentration of income and human development: The role of the middle class
Vanesa Jorda Gil: Global income polarization: relative and absolute perspectives

Parallel 4.1 – @EQUAL 
Chair – Carlos Gradín  
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay: Size Matters: Measuring the Effects of Inequality and Growth Shocks
Shakeba Foster: Wage inequality, firm characteristics, and firm wage premia in South Africa 
Carlos Gradín: Spatial inequality in Mozambique

Parallel 5.1 – @EQUAL 
Chair – Rachel Gisselquist 
Ines A.R. Ferreira: Fairness views, norms and preferences for redistribution 
AnnaLena Oppel: Communication matters: Sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels  
Antonio Diaz Caycedo: Colombia’s Land Reform: Fighting Inequality, fighting Violence? 
Rachel Gisselquist: Dimensions of Inequality: Impacts on growth, governance, and human development
 

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