Workshops

2018

The Raquel Fernández Workshop 2018: Change

Time and place: Aug. 17, 2018 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

This year's Raquel Fernández Workshop is devoted to the subject of change. Raquel Fernández will present ‘’Cultural Change’’.

Raquel Fernández is Professor of Economics at New York University and Adjunct Professor at ESOP.

Programme

  • 09.00 - 09.45: Key-note presentation by Raquel Fernandez on ‘’Cultural Change’’
  • 09.55 - 11.00:
    • Gisle Natvik, Martin Holm, Andreas Fagereng and Benjamin Moll on changes in savings: "Saving Behavior across the wealth distribution"
    • Jo Thori Lind, Halvor Mehlum, Obbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg and Andreas Kotsadam on changing turnouts: ''Voting like Grandpa''
  • 11.15 - 12.20:
    • Tone Ognedal on changing membership: ‘’Participation and Privileges’’
    • Kjetil Storesletten on changing China: "Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China"

Social and Economic Development Workshop

Time and place: Mar. 16, 2018 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

ESOP is organising a workshop on Social and Economic Development.

Programme

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Key note: Debraj Ray: Capital and Inequality in the Long Run: Automation Without Technical Progress - read the paper here (external link to .pdf)
  • 13:15 - 14:00 Anirban Mitra: Cash for Votes: Evidence from India (with Shabana Mitra and Arnab Mukherji)
  • 14:15 - 15:00 Anders Kjelsrud: Competition over Life and Death (with Kalle Moene)
  • 15:15 - 16:00 Jo Thori Lind: Call the Midwife (with Andreas Kotsadam and Jørgen Modalsli)
  • 16:15 - 17:00 Tone Ognedal: Privileges and representation
  • 17:15 - 18:00 Halvor Mehlum The Sismondi Principle  - Inequality and development (with Kalle Moene)

2017

Workshop on Globalisation, Migration and the Labour Market

Time and place: Feb. 9, 2017 8:50 AM – Feb. 10, 2017 1:45 PM, Professorboligen, Karl Johans gate 47

ESOP organises a workshop on "Globalisation, Migration and the Labour Market" in relation to the European Strains research project. 

Programme

Thursday February 9

  • 8:50 Opening address
  • 9:00-10:00 Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College: “Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from Mexican Bracero Exclusion”
  • 10:00 -11:00 Gianmarco Ottaviano, London School of Economics: “Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K Firms”
  • 11:30-12:30  Luca Opromolla, Bank of Portugal: “Trade and Migration: A Quantitative Assessment”
  • 13:30-14:30 Matti Sarvimäki, Aalto University: “Sharing the Pain? The Distributional Consequences of the Collapse of Finnish-USSR Trade”
  • 15:00-16:00 Maria Brunborg Hoen, Frisch Centre: “Does Labour Migration Hurt Local Workers?”
  • 16:00-17:00 Simon Galle, BI Norwegian Business School: “Slicing The Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade”

Friday February 10

  • 9:00-10:00 Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo: “Opening the Floodgates: Immigration and Structural Change”
  • 10:15 -11:15 Jon Erik Dølvik, FAFO Institute for Labour and Social Research: “Transnational Labour Mobility – Engine for Social Convergence or Divergence in Europe?”
  • 11:30-12:30 Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum, Frisch Centre: “Immigrant responses to Social Insurance Generosity”
  • 12:30 Closing remarks

2016

Workshop on Conflict and Political Economy with Debraj Ray

Time and place: Nov. 25, 2016 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

ESOP invites to a mini workshop about "Conflict and Political Economy" with top development economist Debraj Ray. Ray is Professor at New York University and an affiliated researcher at ESOP.

Preliminary programme

  • Debraj Ray: "Conflicts Research – which way now?"
  • Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Gry Østenstad: "Add, Divide, Rule"
  • Sara Cools and Andreas Kotsadam: "Resources and intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa"
  • Daniel Spiro: "The Dynamics of Revolutions"

Workshop on Employee Share Ownership and Profit-sharing

Time and place: Nov. 15, 2016 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM, Harnack-Haus - The Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Berlin

ESOP organises a workshop on employee share ownership and profit-sharing jointly with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the Inter-University Centre (Viadrina, FU Berlin, Uni Split, Sorbonne). The workshop will take place in Berlin, at the Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society.

Programme

  • 9:00 A.M. – Welcome and registration
    • Research Across Enterprises and Major Company experience (Chair Richard Freeman)
  • 9:15 A.M. – 10:30 Session 1: Report by Ana Cardosa and Jose Garcia-Louzao on Spanish employee owned companies using government administrative data.
  • 10:45 – 12:00 Session 2: Presentation by Marc Muntermann and Carolin Ahrens on Siemens employee share ownership and profit sharing plan
  • 12:00 – 1:00 Policy and Future Research Opportunities (Chair: Herwig Roggemann)
  • 1:00 – 2:45 Session 3: Presentations on policy developments and research issues: Richard Freeman on US; Jens Lowitzsch on EU; Loris Guery on French Profit-sharing
  • 3:00 – 4:30 Session 4: Panel Discussion by unions and employer groups on developments and issues: Claes-Mikael Jonnson (Sweden); Thomas Fischer (Germany); Albrecht Söllner (Germany)
  • 4:30 – 5:30 Conclusion: Kalle Moene “Unions and Shared Enterprises: how to improve markets with workers as owners” 
    • Erling Barth – Wrap up discussion of 1) most promising research areas to answer economics/business questions about participatory firms; 2) key research for moving policy agenda / plan for follow-up

ESOP Workshop: Learning in Social Situations

Time and place: Oct. 28, 2016 9:15 AM – 3:30 PM, Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus

ESOP organises a workshop on learning in social situations as part of a two-day event marking the end of the centre's CoE-period.

  • 09.15-10.00 Katrine Løken: "Incarceration, recidivism and employment"
  • 10.15-11.00 Eliana La Ferrara:  "Interaction, stereotypes and performance: Evidence from South Africa"
  • 11.00-11.45 Åshild Auglænd Johnsen: "Trust, ethnic diversity, and personal contact: Experimental Field Evidence"
  • 12.15-13.00 Monique de Haan: "The performance of school assignment mechanisms in practice"
  • 13.00-13.45 Mari Rege: “Increasing Perseverance in Math: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Norway”
  • 13.45-14.30 Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred: ‘’Luck, merit and inequality acceptance’’

The 2016 Raquel Fernández Workshop

Time and place: Aug. 16, 2016 10:15 AM – 5:15 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

The Raquel Fernández Workshop is an annual event arranged by ESOP. Raquel Fernández is Professor of Economics at NYU and Adjunct Professor at ESOP.

Programme (preliminary)

  • 10.15-11.00: Yikai Wang: Will China Escape the Middle-Income Trap?
  • 11.00-11.45: Jacopo Bizzotto:  Delayed Persuasion
  • 12.00-12.45: Jo Thori Lind (with Aaberge and Moene): The Inequality of Equal Mating
  • 13.45-14.30: Katinka Holtsmark: Green Bandits
  • 14.30-15:15: Paolo Piacquadio: A Fairness Justification of Utilitarianism
  • 15.45-16.30: Gaute Torsvik (with Finseraas, Hanson, Johnsen, Kotsadam) Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact: Experimental Field Evidence
  • 16.30-17:15: Eivind Hammersmark Olsen (with Alpino) On a Mission from God: The historical roots of development aid allocation

Nordic International Trade Seminars (NOITS) 17th Annual Workshop

Time and place: May 19, 2016 8:30 AM – May 20, 2016 3:30 PM, Professorboligen, Karl Johans gate 47

Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance (ESOP) at the University of Oslo is organizing the Nordic International Trade Seminars (NOITS) 17th Annual Workshop to be held 19-20 May 2016.

NOITS was established in Stockholm, March 1998, at the network's first annual workshop. NOITS aims to organise annual workshops with presentations by Nordic researchers and graduate students specialising in international economics. In addition, a few non-Nordic researchers with a considerable international reputation are invited. The network serves several purposes. First, it facilitates collaborative research and scientific contacts among Nordic researchers. Second, it offers graduate students and junior researchers an opportunity to present their work, and thereby get valuable feedback, as well as to prepare for international workshops and conferences. Third, it is hoped to strengthen the ties between the Nordic academic institutions.

Key note speaker: Pol Antras (Harvard University) and Andrew Bernard (Tuck School of Business).

ESOP Workshop on Profit Sharing with Richard Freeman, Harvard University

Time and place: Mar. 16, 2016 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

ESOP workshop. Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University.

Programme

  • 13.15-14 Richard Freeman: Sharing with shares
  • 14.15-15 Kalle Moene and Tone Ognedal: Markets without capitalists
  • 15.15-16 Ola Kvaløy: Smells like team spirit (joint work with William Gjedrem)
  • 16.15-17 Gaute Torsvik: Rewarding the guy or the group
  • 17.15-18 Erling Barth, Bernt Brattsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum: Paying for performance and productivity

2015

Workshop in Political Economics

Time and place: Nov. 3, 2015 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts Hus

ESOP Workshop. 

Host: Jo Thori Lind.

Programme

  • 1215-1300: Rune Sørensen (BI): Culture and school performance: Evidence from second generation immigrants to Norway 
  • 1300-1345: Henning Finseraas (ISF): Labor Market Competition with Immigrants and Party Choice
  • 1400-1445: Askill Halse (UiO): Candidate gender discrimination when parties and voters interact 
  • 1445-1530: Matteo Alpino (UiO): Would you vote for me if I lower your taxes?
  • 1545-1630: Jo Thori Lind (UiO): Spurious weather effects
  • 1630-1715: Frode Nordvik (BI): Conflict Capacity and Civil War: Onshore versus Offshore Oil 
  • 1715-1800: Andreas Kotsadam: Exposure to Female Colleagues breaks the Glass Ceiling - Evidence from a combined Vignette and Field Experiment

ESOP Workshop: Work motivation and the Nordic model

Time and place: Oct. 6, 2015 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Kjell Arne Brekke and Karine Nyborg invite to a workshop about work motivation and the Nordic model.

Programme

  • Session 1. Chair: Karine Nyborg
    • 10:00 - 10:05: Welcome
    • 10:05 - 10:50: Jon Erik Dølvik: The Nordic productivity puzzle: An institutionalist interpretation
    • 11:00 - 11:45: Kalle Moene:  Balance of Power: Working under Nordic Rules
    • 12:00 - 12:45: Tore Ellingsen: Situations and Norms: Formal Foundations of Sociology
  • Session 2. Chair: Kjell Arne Brekke
    • 14:00 - 14:45: Ingela Alger: Evolution leads to Kantian morality (.pdf)
    • 15:00 - 15:45: Michael Kosfeld: Selecting intrinsically motivated into the German police force
  • Session 3. Chair: Jo Thori Lind
    • 16:00 - 16:45: Robert Dur: Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics
    • 17:00 - 17:45: Gaute Torsvik: Does extrinsic incentives in health care undermine health workers intrinsic motivation? Evidence from performance based pay in Tanzania.

The Raquel Fernández Workshop 2015: Sovereign Debt

Time and place: Aug. 18, 2015 1:15 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts Hus

This year's Raquel Fernández Workshop is devoted to the subject of debt. Raquel Fernández will present "The Long and the Short of It: Sovereign Debt Crises and Debt Maturity".

Raquel Fernández is Professor of Economics at New York University and Adjunct Professor at ESOP.

Programme

  • 13.15-14.00: Raquel Fernandez: "The Long and the Short of It: Sovereign Debt Crises and Debt Maturity"
  • 14.15-15.00: Matteo Alpino: "Sovereign default risk in a political equilibrium"
  • 15.15-16.00: Andreas Müller: "The Political Color of Fiscal Responsibility"
  • 16.15-17.00: Gisle Natvik: "Housing , debt, and the marginal propensity to consume"
  • 17.15-18.00: Yan Bai: "Maturity and Payment Schedule of Sovereign Debt"
  • 18.00-18:45: Kjetil Storesletten: "Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms"

Workshop on Norms, Conflict and Development

Time and place: Mar. 24, 2015 10:15 AM – 7:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

ESOP holds an informal ESOP mini-workshop on Norms, Conflict and Development.

Programme

  • 10.15-11.00: Debraj Ray: "Aspirations and Inequality" with G. Genicot
  • 11:15-12.00: Paolo G. Piacquadio: "A Lipsetian Theory on Institutional Change" with. R. Boucekkine and F. Prieur
  • 12.15-13.00: Scott Gates and Ragnhild Nordås: "Recruitment, Retention, and Religion in Rebel Groups"
  • 14.15-15.00: Tone Ognedal: "Morality in the Market"
  • 15.15-16.00: Daniel Spiro: "From Peer Pressure to Biased Norms: Formation and Collapse" with Moti Michaeli
  • 16.15-17.00: Martin Flatø and Andreas Kotsadam: "Droughts and Gender Bias in Infant Mortality"
  • 17.15-18.00: Kalle Moene: "Social Democracy - Peace, Justice, and a Fair Tax System, the Rest comes by Itself"
  • 18.15-19.00: Joan Esteban: "Researcher in Residence - My Theories on Everything"

Workshop on Natural Resources

Time and place: Mar. 5, 2015 3:45 PM – Mar. 6, 2015 4:45 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Centre for Applied Macro- and Petroleum Economics (CAMP) at BI Norwegian Business School and ESOP - Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization and Performance in cooperation with Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre) organize a two days workshop on Natural Resources.

As part of the collaboration between Centre for Applied Macro- and Petroleum Economics (CAMP), Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre) and ESOP - Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance, we organize this workshop on political and economic issues of natural resource management in rich and poor countries.

Programme

Thursday March 5

  • 15.45-16:30: Kjetil Storesletten (UiO) TBC: On the Spending rule
  • 16.30-17.15: Brock Smith (Oxford): There Will Be Blood: Crime Rates in Shale-Rich U.S. Counties
  • 17.45-18.30: Eivind H. Olsen (UiO): Mining and local corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 18.30- 19.15: Daniel Spiro (UiO): Finders, Keepers?

Friday March 6

  • 09.30-10.15: Halvor Mehlum (UiO) and Ragnar Torvik (NTNU): Dutch disease
  • 10.30-11.15: Ohad Raveh (Oxford): Natural Resources, Decentralization, and Risk Sharing: Can Resource Booms Unify Nations?
  • 11.45-12.30: Leif Anders Thorsrud (BI): Commodity prices, fiscal policy design and economic activity
  • 12.45- 13.30: Chiara Ravetti (Oxford): Directed Technical Change and Natural Resources: The Tragedy of the Locals
  • 15.00 - 15.45: Sepideh Zahiri (BI): Commodity Future Markets and Forecasting Commodity Currencies"
  • 16.00 - 16.45: Gerhard Toews (Oxford): What happened to Billy Elliot’s Neighbours? Coal Mines Closures and Local Labour Markets

2014

Workshop: Social policy and economic growth

Time and place: Oct. 27, 2014 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

The purpose of the workshop is to present work on the emergence of the welfare state and social insurance policies.

The relevant time period would vary between the countries studied. One case is Norway in the period 1880-1940, when many key parts of the welfare state were rolled out, and there is much data available. Another case is present day Sub-Saharan Africa, facing severe challenges and less developed formal insurance systems. The workshop will serve as a basis for writing a grant application to study these themes.

Programme

  • 09:45: Martin Flatø, Universitetet i Oslo: "Droughts and gender bias in infant mortality"
  • 10:45: Sara Moricz, Lunds Universitet: "Can data on the vote distribution of Swedish municipalities in 1871 and 1892 be used to approximate inequality?"
  • 12:30: Lunch seminar joint with ESOP: Plamen Nenov, BI: "Buying first or selling first in housing markets", written jointly with Espen Moen (UiO) and Florian Sniekers (VUA Amsterdam).
  • 13:45: Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Universitetet i Oslo: "Immigrant parents' preferences for children's sex: Registry-based study of fertility behaviour in ten national origin groups"
  • 14:30: Tommy Bengtsson, Lunds universitet: "Population and Living Standards in Asia and Europe, 1700-1900. A micro level approach by the Eurasian Population and Family History Project"
  • 15:30: Peter Sandholdt Jensen, University of Southern Denmark: "Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden"
  • 16:30: Jon Reiersen, Høgskolen i Vestfold: "From conflict to cooperation: Norwegian labor market institutions in the making"
  • 17:15: Andreas Kotsadam, Jo Thori Lind, and Jørgen Modalsli: "The Welfare State and the Development Process"

ESOP workshop: The Welfare state and Social Policies around the World

Time and place: Oct. 3, 2014 11:00 AM – Oct. 4, 2014 2:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Programme

Friday October 3

  • 13.15-14.30: The Eilert Sundt Lecture 2014: Joseph Stiglitz on Social Sustainability and Global Governance
  • 15.00-19.00: Workshop
    • Carl Henrik Knutsen and Magnus Rasmussen: Varities of Democracy - The data on Social Policies around the World.Varieties of Democracy.
    • Francesco Andreoli, Tarjei Havnes, and Arnaud Lefranc: Equalization of opportunity: Definitions, implementable conditions and application to early-childhood policy evaluation.
    • Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Gry Tengmark Østenstad: The Add and Rule Strategy - Guest workers as a barrier to democratization in oil-rich countries.
    • Henning Finseraas and Andreas Kotsadam: Exposure and attitudes towards immigrants - A Field Experimentin the Norwegian Armed Forces.

Saturday October 4

  • 10.00-14.00: Workshop
    • Siri Anne Dahlum and Tore Wig: Education, Urbanization Contentious Collective Action in Africa.
    • Sara Cools, Andreas Kotsadam and Martin Flatø: Weather Shocks and Violence Against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
    • Magnus Rasmussen: The Politics of Time: Working-time Regulation in Modern Times.
    • Carl Henrik Knutsen and Magnus Rasmussen: The Autocratic Welfare State: Resource distribution, credible commitments and political survival.

The Fernández Workshop 2014: Family Economics

Time and place: Aug. 21, 2014 1:15 PM – 6:00 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

This year’s Fernández Workshop is devoted to labor and family economics. Raquel Fernández presents ‘’Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes’’.

Raquel Fernández is Professor of Economics at New York University and Adjunct Professor at ESOP.

Programme

  • 13.15-14.15: Raquel Fernandez: Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes
  • 14.30-16.20
    • Nina Drange and Tarjei Havnes: Early and Bright? Child Care for Toddlers and Early Cognitive Skills
    • Monique de Haan: The effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes
  • 16.40-18.20
    • Andreas Kotsadam: Culture and Female Labor Supply: An Epidemiological Approach on Second Generation Immigrants in Norway --- Or more correctly: Fernandez in Norway: An Epidemiological Approach using Registry Data
    • Magne Mogstad (with David Autor and Andreas Kostol): The Insurance-Incentive Tradeoff in Disability Screening

2013

ESOP workshop on the Norwegian Oil Economy

Time and place: Apr. 30, 2013 1:15 PM – 5:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

On April 30th, ESOP organizes a half-day workshop the importance and future of oil in the Norwegian economy.

In this workshop on the importance of oil in the Norwegian economy, we ask the following questions:

  • How would the Norwegian economy perform without oil?
  • What will happen when the Norwegian oil reserves are depleted?
  • What will happen to the Norwegian economy in case of a sudden drop in oil prices?

Preliminary programme

There will be three 40 minute presentations:

  • Ådne Cappelen, Statistics Norway: "The Challenges for the Norwegian Economy after the Oil Era".
  • Hilde C. Bjørnland, BI Norwegian Business Scool: "Quantifying the Norwegian Oil Boom".
  • Torben Kenea Mideksa, ESOP & UiO: "Use it like Norway: the Economic Effect of Petroleum Resources".

After the presentations there will be a discussion.

2012

GRASP Workshop: Social Policy and the Financial Crisis

Time and place: May 4, 2012, 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Growth and Sustainability Policies for Europe (GRASP) - an FP7-SSH Collaborative Project.

Workshop on Social Policy and the Financial Crisis (GRASP WP3 workshop).

Hosted by ESOP, Department of Economics, UiO.

This event is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Research Framework Programme through its GRASP Collaborative Project, Contract Number 244725. It is co-organised by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and ESOP (Centre for the Study of Inequality, Social Organization, and Performance), at The Department of Economics, University of Oslo (UiO).

Programme

  • 10:00-10:15: Opening: Kalle Moene, UiO, ESOP/GRASP
  • 10:15-11:15: "Inequality and Banking Crisis": Salvatore Morelli, Oxford (with Tony Atkinson)
    • Comments: Tarjei Havnes, UiO, ESOP/GRASP
  • 11:30-12:30: "Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution": Heléne Lundquist, IIES, Stockholm (with Matz Dahlberg and Karin Edmark)
    • Comments: Erling Barth, UiO, ESOP/GRASP
  • 12:30-13:30: Key note speaker Oliver Hart (Harvard): "Inefficient Provision of Liquidity"
  • 14:00-15:00: "Does Inequality Multiply?": Kalle Moene, UiO, ESOP/GRASP (with Erling Barth)
    • Comments:  Antonio Estache, ULB, ECARES/GRASP
  • 15:15-16:15: "Unambiguous Comparison of Intersecting Distribution Functions": Tarjei Havnes, UiO, ESOP/GRASP (with Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad)
    • Comments: Jo Thori Lind, UiO, ESOP/GRASP
  • 16:30-17:30: "Fiscal Policy and Unemployment": Steinar Holden, UiO, ESOP
    • Comments: Halvor Mehlum, UiO, ESOP/GRASP
  • 17.30-17:45: Final remarks: Antonio Estache, ULB, ECARES/GRASP

ESOP workshop in cooperation with GRU: The Instability of Regimes

Time and place: Apr. 20, 2012 9:15 AM – 5:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Programme

  • 09.15 – 10.00: Rob Davies, University of Zimbabwe: Recovery vs. Development in Zimbabwe
  • 10.15 – 11.00: Ragnar Torvik, NTNU: Petropopulism
  • 11.15 – 12.00: Kjetil Selvik, GRU/UiO: Political Change in a Rentier State: The Case of Kuwait
  • 12.15 – 13.00: Halvor Mehlum and Kalle Moene, ESOP: The Battle of Regimes
  • 14.15 – 15.00: Ola Olsson, Göteborgs Universitet: Ethnic Cleansing vs. Resource Struggle in Darfur
  • 15.15 – 16.00: Jørgen Juel Andersen, BI: Oil Rents and Hidden Wealth
  • 16.15 – 17.00: Bjørn Olav Utvik, GRU/UiO: The Muslim Brotheres and the Arab Spring

ESOP workshop in India:"Poverty, Conflict and Environment"

Time: Mar. 27, 2012 9:00 AM – Mar. 29, 2012 4:00 PM

ESOP is organising a research workshop in Delhi on March 27-29 2012.

The workshop will be held at ISI in Delhi.The workshop is part of ESOP’s ‘Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in India’ project, which is funded by the Norwegian Research Council through their Research Cooperation with India (INDNOR) programme.

Programme

March 28

  • 09.30-09.40 Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Kalle Moene
  • 09.40-10.30 Rohan D'Souza (Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU): Conflict against Security: the search for another water paradigm for South Asia
  • 10.30-11.20 Anirban Mitra (Economics, New York University), with Debraj Ray: Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
  • 11.50-12.40 Laura Mayoral (CSIC, Barcelona) with J. Huber: Ethnicity, Inequality, and Conflict
  • 1.40-2.30 Kalle Moene and Halvor Mehlum, (ESOP, Oslo): Vulnerable Rents and Conflicts
  • 2.30-3.20 Anirban Kar, (Economics, Delhi University), with Alita Nandy and Anindya Bhattacharya: Does Maoist-Extremist Politics Adversely Affect Provision of Public Services in India?
  • 3.50-4.40 Sudha Vasan (Sociology, Delhi University): Title TBA
  • 4.40-5.30 Ashokankur Datta (ISI-Delhi & CSH): Equity and Community forestry in South Asia

March 29

  • 9.30-10.20 Abhijit Banerjee (Economics, MIT): Information, gender, and political competition: Evidence from a field experiment in Rajasthan
  • 10.20-11.10 Mahesh Rangarajan, (History, Delhi University, and NMML): Environment, politics, and history: Why India's pasts matter for contemporary conflict
  • 11.40-12.30 Debraj Ray, (Economics, New York University), or Dilip Abreu, (Economics, Princeton): Title TBA
  • 12.30-1.20 Eshita Gupta, (ISI-Delhi), with Bharat Ramaswami and E. Somanathan: Climate change, food prices, and welfare in India
  • 2.10-3.00 Mads Greaker, (Statistics Norway): Incentives for environmental R&D
  • 3.20-4.10 Anders Kjielsrud (Economics, Oslo), with Ingvild Almas and Rohini Somanathan: The measurement of poverty in India - a structural approach
  • 4.10-5.00 Mukul Sharma: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics
  • 5.00-5.10 Closing Remark

2011

CSMN Workshop on the Foundations of Moral Preferences

Time and place: Nov. 17, 2011 8:00 AM – Nov. 18, 2011 4:00 PM, tba

The CSMN organizes, in co-operation with Bertil Tungodden and Alexander Cappelen (Norwegian School of Economics / Bergen / ESOP), a series of workshops on Social and Moral Norms in Intentional Action.

The topic of the workshop in 2011 will be 'The Foundations of Moral Preferences', and it will take place at the University of Oslo, Norway, on November 17 and 18, 2011.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together social scientists working on the foundations of moral preferences and discuss how they are shaped by nature, institutions, and cultural factors.

ESOP workshop on Gender and Households

Time and place: May 27, 2011 9:30 AM – May 28, 2011 5:00 PM, Rådssalen, Lucy Smiths hus

Organizer: ESOP and ISF with support from the Norwegian Research Council.

Preliminary programme

Friday May 27

  • 09:30 – 09:40 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
  • 09:40 – 10:30 Marte Strøm (University of Oslo) – Parenthood and Household Specialisation
  • 10:30 – 11:20 Åsa Rosén (Stockholm University) – Trading Off or Having it All? Completed Fertility and Mid-Career Earnings of Swedish Men and Women
  • 11:30 – 12:30 Francine D. Blau (Cornell University) – The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work
  • 13:30 – 14:20 Jerome Adda (European University Institute) – The Career Cost of Children
  • 14:20 – 15:10 Alexander Gelber (University of Pennsylvania) – Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men
  • 15:20 – 16:10 Pål Schøne (Institute of Social Research) – Enticing Women to Work - the Impact of Affordable Day Care
  • 16:10 – 17:00 Sara Cools - The Effects of Paternity Leave on Parents and Children

Saturday May 28

  • 09:50 – 10:40 Remzi Kaygusuz (Sabanci University) – Taxation and Household Labor Supply
  • 10:40 – 11:30 Claudia Olivetti (Boston University) – Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
  • 11:40 – 12:30 Lawrence M. Kahn (Cornell University) – Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration
  • 13:30 – 14:20 Andrea Moro (Vanderbilt University) – The Effect of Job Flexibility on Women Labor Market Outcomes
  • 14:20 – 15:10 Astrid Kunze (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) – Are All of the Good Men Fathers? An Analysis of Earnings Dynamics Using Sibling Data
  • 15:20 – 16:10 Erling Barth (Institute of Social Research) – Does Gender Mainstreeming Start at Home? Wage Contracts and Task Sharing
  • 16:10 – 17:00 Tarjei Havnes (University of Oslo) – Money for nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

ESOP Workshop on Causality

Time and place: Apr. 29, 2011 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

The workshop discusses new approaches to statistical causal inferences. Much ado about something?

Programme

  • Odd Aalen: Statistical causal inference - new paradigm or the "Emperor's new clothes"?
  • Magne Mogstad: Is better research design taking the "con" out of econometrics?
  • Kjetil Røysland: Graphical models based on local independence
  • Erik Ø. Sørensen: Causality and economic experiments
  • Tore Schweder: Markov-completeness

2010

ESOP Workshop on Culture, Behavior and Distribution

Time and place: Nov. 19, 2010 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Preliminary programme

  • 9:00-9:45 Jo Thori Lind: "Knowledge is power. A theory of information, income and welfare spending"
  • 10:00-10:45 Gianluca Grimalda: "The culture of redistribution in Norway, Italy and the US - an experiment"
  • 11:00-11:45 Alexander Cappelen: "Immoral Criminals? An experimental study of social preferences among prisoners"
  • 13:00-13:45 Karine Van Der Straeten: Laboratory experiments on voting rules
    • Two backround articles for this presentation: "The Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Systems" and "Strategic, Sincere and Heuristic Voting under Four Election Rules: An Experimental Study"
  • 14:00-14:45 Marte Strøm: "How husbands and wives vote"
  • 15:00-15:45 Carl-Johan Dalgaard: "Religious Orders and Growth through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England"
  • 16:00-16:45 Erling Barth/Kalle Moene/Kjersti Misje Nilsen: "Social insurance or redistribution motives? Behaviors and beliefs in the welfare state"

ESOP workshop on Poverty and Inequality

Time and place: Nov. 2, 2010 9:15 AM – 1:30 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Organized by ESOP in collaboration with Norad.

Programme

  • 09.15-10.00 Why Don‘t We See Poverty Convergence?, Martin Ravallion, World Bank 
  • 10.00-10.15 Discussant: Kalle Moene, ESOP
  • 10.15-11.30 Patterns of work across the OECD, Stephen Nickell, University of Oxford
  • 11.45-12.30 International income inequality and poverty: Measurement challenges, Ingvild Almås, NHH and ESOP
  • 12.30-12.45 Discussant: Magne Mogstad, SSB and ESOP

ESOP workshop: Gender, labor market, and the family - lessons from empirical analysis of reforms

Time and place: Oct. 25, 2010 12:30 PM – 4:15 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Welcome to an ESOP workshop in the ESOP series on Gender and Economics.

Programme

  • 12.30-13.30 Regular ESOP seminar, Sara Cools
  • 13.45-16.15 Workshop, chaired by Halvor Mehlum, about 15 minutes for each contributor. Sara Cools, Jon Fiva, Tarjei Havnes, Jo Lind, Mari Rege, Oddbjørn Raaum (TBC), Pål Schøne, and Erik Sørensen (coffee etc. will be served)

Workshop on Climate Change and Distribution

Time and place: June 22, 2010 9:00 AM – June 23, 2010 5:00 PM, Rådsalen, Administration Building

Organized by ESOP (Geir B. Asheim, Richard Tol and Cees Withagen) and Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) (Dagfinn Føllesdal) in collaboration with Stanford Center for Ethics in Society (Debra Satz)

Programme

June 22

  • 09.00-09.15: Opening
  • 09.15-10.45: JON ELSTER, Collège de France: The fair allocation of emission rights
    • Aanund Hylland, University of Oslo: Discussion
  • 11.15-12.15: Stéphane Zuber, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain: Justifying social discounting
    • Geir B. Asheim, University of Oslo: Discussion
  • 13.30-14.30: Johannes Emmerling, Toulouse School of Economics: Discounting and intragenerational equity
    • Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford: Discussion
  • 14.50-16.50: RICK VAN DER PLOEG, University of Oxford: Cautious discounting of CO2 damages and optimal redistribution
    • David Anthoff, ESRI, Dublin: Optimal global dynamic carbon taxation
    • Michael Hoel, University of Oslo: Discussion
  • 17.15-18.00: Joint session with Confronting Environmental Values (in Aud. 2, Georg Sverdrups hus)
    • Stephen M. Gardiner, University of Washington and John O'Neill, University of Manchester: Climate change and geo-engineering (Is 'Arming the Future' with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil?)

June 23

  • 09.00-11.00: CHRISTIAN GOLLIER, Toulouse School of Economics: Socially efficient discounting under ambiguity aversion
    • Christian Traeger, University of California, Berkeley: The social discount rate under intertemporal risk aversion and ambiguity
    • Cees Withagen, VU University, Amsterdam: Discussion
  • 11.30-12.30: STEPHEN M. GARDINER, University of Washington: The tyranny of the contemporary
  • 13.45-15.30: ADAM ROSE, University of Southern California: Distributional Impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman Bill
    • Armon Rezai, Vienna University of Economics and Business: Climate Policy and Intergenerational Welfare
  • 16.00-17.00
    • Richard Tol, ESRI, Dublin: Climate policy under fat-tailed risk
    • Bengt Hansson, Lund University: Discussion

Workshop on Global and Local Perspectives on Economic Inequality

Time and place: May 7, 2010 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Programme

  • 11.00 – 12.00 Branko Milanovic presents “Measuring Ancient Inequality”
  • 13.00 – 13.45 Erik Sørensen presents “Convergence? Cost-of-living indices for measuring global trends in inequality and poverty”
  • 14.00 – 14.45 Paul Segal presents “Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend”
  • 15.00 – 15.45 Alain Trannoy presents “Detecting a change in wealth concentration without knowledge og wealth distribution”
  • 16.15 – 17.00 Erik Thorbecke presents The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Class of Poverty Measures Twenty Five Years Later
  • 17.15 – 18.00 Magne Mogstad presents “Robust Inequality Comparison”

Workshop on Conflict, Trade and Cooperation

Time and place: Jan. 22, 2010 12:00 PM – 5:45 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Preliminary programme

  • 13:00-14:00 Halvor Mehlum and Kalle Moene present “Conflicts and Cooperation”
  • 14:15-15:15 Fabrizio Zilibotti presents "War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict" (with Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig)
  • 15:30-16:30 Dominic Rohner presents “Strategic Mass Killings“ (with Esteban, Joan and Massimo Morelli)
  • 16:45-17:45 Scott Gates presents “Violence and Property Rights”

2009

ESOP Workshop on Recent Experiences With Variants of the Nordic Model

Time and place: Nov. 10, 2009 11:00 AM – 5:45 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Ambition: Every speaker presents experiences from country respectively.
Setting: Informal
Open: for all

Preliminary programme

  • 11:00-12:00 Kalle Moene, Norway, presents "The complementarity between financial markets and the welfarestate"
  • 13:00-14:00 Matz Dahlberg, Sweden, presents "On Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients in Sweden"
  • 14:15-15:15 Markus Jäntti, Finland, presents "Growth with equity? Recent experiences of the Finnish developmental state in light of its history"
  • 15:30-16:30 Torben Andersen, Denmark, presents "Reforms and developments of the danish welfare model"
  • 16:45-17:45 Þórólfur Matthíasson, Iceland, presents "Life at the top of the world, one crash at a time"

ESOP Workshop on Inequalities in Contests

Time and place: Oct. 23, 2009 11:00 AM – Oct. 24, 2009 5:00 PM, Rådsalen - the Central Administration building

Contests is a term used to describe many different sorts of strategic interaction, from market competition, through procurement, to violent conflicts and war. This workshop wants to explore the consequences of inequality – as well as consequences for inequality – in various forms of contests. In particular, how do differences in technology or resource availability among contest participants affect the contest outcome, and how various contest designs differ with respect to inequalities in the participants’ (expected) outcome?

2008

ESOP Workshop on Wage Inequality

Time and place: Oct. 9, 2008 10:00 AM – Oct. 10, 2008 2:00 PM, Aud 6, Eilert Sundts hus

Programme

Thursday October 9

  • 10.00 -10.15 Welcome
  • 10.15-11.15 David Autor: "The Minimum Wage’s Role in the Evolution of U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Modest Re-Assessment" (with Alan Manning and Christopher L. Smith)
  • 11.30-12.30 Thomas Lemieux: "Performance Pay, Wage Flexibility, and Hours Worked" (with Bentley MacLeod and Daniel Parent)
  • 13.30–14.30 Salvador Ortigueira: "Technical Change and the Wage-Setting Process"
  • 14.30–15.30 David Domeij: "The Missing Swedish Skill Premium: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002" (with Lars Ljungqvist)
  • 16.00–17.00 Kjell Gunnar Salvanes: "The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence" (with Giulia Faggio and John Van Reenen)

Friday October 10

  • 09.00-10.00 Costas Meghir: "Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle" (with Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri)
  • 10.00–11.00 Magnus Gustavsson: "Earnings dynamics and inequality: A comparison across educational attainment groups"
  • 11.15-12.15 Kjetil Storesletten: "The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States" (with J. Heathcote and G. Violante)
  • 12.15–13.15 Torbjørn Hægeland: "Wage Inequality and Selective Labor Force Participation" (with Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum)
  • 14.15- Companion workshop: The Nature and Development of Moral Norms at CSMN.

Workshop on Development and Inequality

Time and place: June 19, 2008 1:00 PM – June 20, 2008 6:45 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

Programme

Thursday, June 19

  • 14.15 - 15.15 "Rich Meets Poor": Kalle Moene (Alexander Cappelen, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden)
  • 15.30 - 16.30 "A Dynamic Incentive Based Argument for Conditional Transfers": Dilip Mookherjee (and Debraj Ray)
  • 16.45 - 17.45 "Social Sanctions and Enforcement in Microcredit": Jean-Marie Baland and Rohini Somanathan
  • 18.00 - 19.00 "Opium for the masses? How conflicts stimulate poppy cultivation in Afghanistan": Fredrik Willumsen (Jo Thori Lind and Kalle Moene)

Friday, June 20

  • 09.00 - 10.00 "Aspects of Local Governance in Rural West Bengal": Pranab Bardhan (and Dilip Mookherjee )
  • 10.15 - 11.15 "A Theory of Social Enterprise": Maitreesh Ghatak (and Tim Besley)
  • 11.30 - 12.30 "Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption": Rohini Pande (and Abhijit Banerjee)
  • 14.00 – 15.00 "Links and architecture in village networks": Pramila Krishnan (and Emanuela Sciubba)
  • 15.15 - 16.15 "Self-Discovery, Lending and Microentrepreneurship": Rocco Macchiavello (and Mikhail Drugov)
  • 16.30 – 17.30 "Miserly Development": Jo Thori Lind (and Kalle Moene)
  • 17.45 - 18.45 "On the Feasibility of Power and Status in Traditional Set-ups": Jean-Philippe Platteau (and Petros G. Sekeris)

The Nordic Model: Solutions for Continental Europe’s Problems?

Time and place: May 9, 2008 9:30 AM – May 10, 2008 3:00 PM, Harvard University

Karl Ove Moene: Rich meets poor - An international experiment of redistribution

Time and place: Mar. 27, 2008 2:15 PM – 4:00 PM, Rådsalen, Administrasjonsbygningen

Organizer: Etikkprogrammet

Workshop on Conflicts and Inequality

Time and place: Mar. 5, 2008 10:00 AM – Mar. 6, 2008 2:00 PM, PRIO

Organizers: ESOP and Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at PRIO.

Programme

Wednesday March 5

  • 10.15 -11.15 Kalle Moene (Alexander Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden and Erik Sørensen): Fairness and Poverty – An International Experiment
  • 11.30 -12.30 Fredrik Willumsen (Jo Thori Lind and Kalle Moene): Opium for the Masses. Afghanistan as a Drug State
  • 14.00-15.00 Debraj Ray: Missing Women
  • 15.15-16.15 Dominic Rohner: From Rags to Rifles: The Economics of Deprivation, Conflict and Welfare State
  • 16.30-17.30 Tarjei Havnes: The Formation of Overambitions in Conflict
  • 17.30-18.30 Joan Esteban: Collective Action and Group Platforms

Thursday March 6

  • 09.30-10.30 Todd Sandler (and Patrick Brandt): Hostage Taking: Understanding Terrorism Events Dynamics
  • 10.45 -11.45 Quac-Anh Do (and F.R. Campante): Keeping Dictators Honest - the Role of Population Concentration
  • 12.00-13.00 Jo Thori Lind (and Kalle Moene): Miserly Developments
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