Call for papers for “Workshop on Public Policies: Inequality of opportunity” is now open

The call for papers for the Workshop on Public Policies: Inequality of opportunity is now open. Contributed papers topics may focus on Taxation, Education, Health, Pension systems, Redistributive effects of fiscal policy, Political economy of tax and spending reforms, and Fiscal policy evaluation. Full papers should be in English and must be submitted electronically by 18 October 2019 using the Conference Maker and selecting the following submission topic: “Workshop on Public Policies: Inequality of opportunity”.

The Workshop on Public Policies: Inequality of opportunity will take place on January 23-24, 2020 in Barcelona. It will combine invited speakers with contributed papers, and will run in parallel to the “27th Meeting of Public Economics”. Professors Caterina Calsamiglia (Institute of Political Economy and Governance-IPEG) and Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi University) have already confirmed their attendance as invited speakers.

In recent years, the literature on the distributional consequences of Public policies has been growing. Besides the documented inequality in outcomes as income or wealth, recent studies focused on the inequality of the determinants of a person’s potential to succeed in life. Scholars have suggested gender, family background, economic circumstances, geography, and ethnicity, among others, as potential drivers for inequalities of opportunities. Furthermore, the distributional consequences of public policies must be analyzed to understand if their particular design helps to provide equal opportunities to the population as a whole.

Deadline: October 18^th, 2019. More information HERE.

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