Dear colleagues,

 

The Research Institute Economics of Inequality (INEQ) is pleased to announce the program for the Summer Term 2026 edition of the Economics of Inequality Seminar Series.

The seminars take place (if not stated otherwise) on Mondays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at WU Vienna.

Date & Location

Speaker

Paper

Monday, March 9

3 pm – 4.30 pm

D4.0.136

Thijs Bol
(University of Amsterdam)

Personal Website

Gender inequality in bonus compensation

Registration

Monday, March 16

3 pm – 4.30 pm

D4.0.136

Maxine Lee
(San Francisco State University)

Personal Website

New Evidence on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Registration

Monday, April 13

3 pm – 4.30 pm

D4.0.136

Zach Parolin
(University of Oxford)

Personal Website

The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in the United States

Registration

Tuesday, April 14

4 pm – 6 pm

D3.0.222

Maximilian Kasy
(University of Oxford)

Personal Website

Book presentation: The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)

Registration

Monday, April 20

3 pm – 4.30 pm

D5.1.003

Dario Sansone
(University of Exeter)

Personal Website

Measuring the Sources of Taste-Based Discrimination Using List Experiments

Registration

Monday, April 27

3 pm – 4.30 pm

EA.5.040

Alessandro Toppeta
(SOFI, Stockholm University)

Personal Website

High School Majors and Cognitive Skill Development

Registration

Monday, May ???

3 pm – 4.30 pm

ROOM?

Christina Cross
(Harvard University)

Personal Website

TBA

Monday, June 1

3 pm – 4.30 pm

D4.0.127

Michael Lovenheim
(Cornell University)

Personal Website

Dynastic Capital and the Inheritance of Social Advantage

Registration

Monday, June 15

3 pm – 4.30 pm

   D4.0.127

Konstantin Wacker
(University of Groningen)

Personal Website

The labor share, capital-labor complementarity, and direction of technological change

Registration

 

 

You can also find the seminar dates on our website.

 

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Feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues and students.

 

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the seminars.

Best regards,

 

Franziska Disslbacher

 


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Franziska Disslbacher, PhD

Assistant Professor

ISSET - Institute for Spatial and Socio-Ecological Transformations &

Research Institute Economics of Inequality

WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business

 

+43 1 313 36 6669

franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at

franziskadisslbacher.com

 

 

International Inequalities Institute (LSE) - Research Fellow |

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality- CUNY|

PSE World Inequality Lab - Research Fellow |

German Institute of Economic Research / SOEP - Associated Researcher