2014 WORKSHOP ON WEALTH AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA AND
SINGAPORE
June 5-6, 2014
AS2-03-12 - ECONOMICS DEPT LIM TAY BOH SEMINAR ROOM
Day 1: June 5, 2014 (Thursday)
8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks
Tilak Abeysinghe Director, Singapore Center for Applied and Policy Economics (SCAPE), NUS
Morning Session:
Afternoon Session:
Day 2: June 6, 2014 (Friday)
Morning Session:
Afternoon Session:
June 5-6, 2014
AS2-03-12 - ECONOMICS DEPT LIM TAY BOH SEMINAR ROOM
Day 1: June 5, 2014 (Thursday)
8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks
Tilak Abeysinghe Director, Singapore Center for Applied and Policy Economics (SCAPE), NUS
Morning Session:
- 9:00-9:30 Buhong Zheng (University of Colorado--Denver) Poverty: Fuzzy Measurement and Crisp Ordering
- 9:30-9:45 Discussant: Shenghao Zhu
- 9:45-10:15 Haoming Liu (National University of Singapore) School enrollment, fertility differential, and the demographic transition: theory and evidence
- 10:15-10:30 Discussant: Jinli Zeng
- COFFEE/TEA BREAK
- 11:00-11:30 Baochun Peng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Comparing Inequality and Mobility in Economic Dynamics
- 11:30-11:45 Discussant: Shenghao Zhu
- LUNCH: BUFFET
Afternoon Session:
- 13:45-14:15 Tilak Abeysinghe (National University of Singapore) Income inequality in Singapore: Do housing prices play a role?
- 14:15-14:30 Discussant: Haoming Liu
- 14:30-15:00 Ye Yuan (National University of Singapore (Ph.D student)) Optimal Inheritance Taxation with Endogenous Wealth Inequality
- 15:00-15:15 Discussant: Xue Qiao
- COFFEE/TEA BREAK
- 15:45-16:15 Jing Wan (National University of Singapore, East Asian Institute) Bequests, Estate Taxes, and Wealth Distributions
- 16:15-16:30 Discussant: Baochun Peng
Day 2: June 6, 2014 (Friday)
Morning Session:
- 9:00-9:30 Shuhei Aoki (Hitotsubashi University) Zipf's Law, Pareto's Law, and the Evolution of Top Incomes in the U.S.
- 9:30-9:45 Discussant: Ye Yuan
- 9:45-10:15 Shenghao Zhu (National University of Singapore) The Wealth Distribution in Bewley Models with Investment Risk
- 10:15-10:30 Discussant: Shuhei Aoki
- COFFEE/TEA BREAK
- 11:00-11:30 Xue Qiao (Tsinghua University) Endogenous borrowing constraints and wealth inequality
- 11:30-11:45 Discussant: Ting Zeng
- LUNCH: BUFFET
Afternoon Session:
- 13:45-14:30 Zhichao Yin (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics) Income Inequality and An Economy in Transition
- 14:30-15:00 Ting Zeng (National University of Singapore (Ph.D student)) Wealth, Income, and Earnings Distributions in China: Facts from the 2011 China Household Finance Survey
- 15:00-15:15 Discussant: Qiushi Feng (NUS, Sociology)
- COFFEE/TEA BREAK
- 15:45-16:15 Tomoki Fujii (Singapore Management University) Dynamic Poverty Decomposition Analysis: An Application to the Philippines
- 16:15-16:30 Discussant: Ting Zeng
- 18:30 Departure for Dinner at Melite Restaurant (by invitation)
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