Dear Colleagues in the Economic Fluctuations, Labor Studies, Political
Economy, Public Economics, Education and Children Programs,
Please pass this on to colleagues and students as you think appropriate.
Many thanks for your help,
Steven Durlauf
1st Annual Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality
University of Chicago
Summer 2012
We are delighted to announce the 1st Annual Summer School on Socioeconomic
Inequality (SSSI 2012), to be hosted by the University of Chicago from
July 9-15 under the direction of Steven N. Durlauf and James J. Heckman.
SSSI 2012 is supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking Global
Working Group on Human Capital and Economic Opportunity
(http://mfi.uchicago.edu/humcap/hc.shtml) and the Becker-Friedman
Institute (http://mfi.uchicago.edu).
This summer school is designed to provide state of the art overviews of
different aspects of the study of inequality. While no summer school can
cover inequality in all its dimensions, this first summer school and its
successors will examine areas that are essential to understanding
inequality and human flourishing in a comprehensive fashion. Our intention
is to provide an intensive one-week experience that teaches the tools
needed to study inequality as well as communicates a sense of the research
frontier in understanding inequality. The teaching of tools is of
particular importance as efforts to integrate richer psychological and
sociological foundations of human behavior into conventional economic
models require new methods that in some cases are not conventionally
taught in graduate programs. Further, SSSI 2012 and future summer schools
intend to break down barriers between theoretical, econometric and
empirical work.
The 2012 lecturers and topics are
Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Columbia University, Families and Inequality P.
Dean Corbae, University of Wisconsin, Market Incompleteness and Inequality
Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin, Social Interactions
James Foster, George Washington University, Inequality Measurement
James Heckman, University of Chicago, Early Childhood Development
Scott Kominers, University of Chicago, Market Design Approaches to Inequality
Rachel Kranton, Duke University, Identity and Socioeconomic Outcomes
Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario, Education and Inequality
Burton Singer, University of Florida, Abduction: Modes of Inference,
Examples, and Evolving Bases of Causal Attribution
Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin, The Economics of Matching
In addition to two formal presentations by each lecturer, informal talks
and paper presentations will be scheduled; students will be especially
encouraged to make presentations of work in progress.
The summer school is open to PhD candidates from around the world. There
is no cost to participation, and room and board will be provided to
participants. Students are expected to meet their individual
transportation costs. The admitted class will be restricted to 25-30
students. Applications may be submitted at the summer school website:
https://ineqss.uchicago.edu/ and are due April 15, 2012.
Please direct any questions to Jennifer Pachon
(jennifer.b.pachon_at_gmail.com) or Steven Durlauf (sdurlauf_at_ssc.wisc.edu).
Sincerely,
Steven Durlauf
James Heckman
Steven N. Durlauf
Vilas Professor
Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics
Laurits R. Christensen Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison WI 53706-1393
Received on Thu Feb 23 2012 - 18:57:38 EST
