SALDRU’s Murray Leibbrandt joined 72 of the world’s leading economists to participate in an international workshop that examined income and wealth inequality. The workshop, hosted at the Paris School of Economics on 17-18 May 2018, focused on methods to combine household surveys, fiscal data and national accounts in order to measure income and wealth inequality systematically across countries and over time. This workshop sought to review and debate different methodological approaches and establish data collection and production standards among different research groups.
The event was co-hosted by the World Inequality Lab, WID.world, Paris School of Economics, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CEQ Institute (Tulane Univ.)
Click here to read the conference program and peruse the list of participants.
Learn more about the workshop from these tweets.
Today and tomorrow, we are co-organizing with @PSEinfo, @stone_lis and @CEQinstitute / @TulaneNews a workshop on "Harmonization of household surveys, fiscal data and national accounts: comparing approaches and establishing standards" pic.twitter.com/cQhfZXIPRO
— World Inequality Lab | WID.world (@WIL_inequality) May 17, 2018
.@noralustig and @PikettyLeMonde kick off workshop on measuring top incomes and inequality @PSEinfo. cc @CEQinstitute @stone_lis @wid_inequality pic.twitter.com/zE15YqoOg2
— Sean Higgins (@SeanKHiggins) May 17, 2018
Learning about exciting new inequality data and methods at the Paris School of Economics with an awesome group of inequality scholars. (Too many to count!)@BrankoMilan @MorelliSal @PikettyLeMonde @noralustig @fhgferreira @JanetGornick @MartinRavallion@LSEInequalities pic.twitter.com/I6FyrQlcqH
— Paul Segal (@pdsegal) May 18, 2018
Incomes of the bottom 50% in US stagnated while incomes of top 1% soared over time → falling share of total income for bottom 50%, who now have less income than top 1%. @PikettyLeMonde w/ Saez & @gabriel_zucman pic.twitter.com/dWxg59Clef
— Sean Higgins (@SeanKHiggins) May 17, 2018
Inequality in Europe over time. @ChancelLucas presents results from @wid_inequality https://t.co/C6Yv9tnq3Y World Inequality Report pic.twitter.com/HiY6D1fTx7
— Sean Higgins (@SeanKHiggins) May 17, 2018
The unofficial "World Cup of inequality measurement" just ended at the World Inequality Lab in Paris w/ @CEQinstitute @stone_lis @PSEinfo! Researchers all over the world are committed to systematically track & analyse economic inequality! Will governments also get in the game? pic.twitter.com/5S4Uz6aV8B
— Lucas Chancel (@lucas_chancel) May 18, 2018