Friday, June 27 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM   •   Lecture Room 328

Session 78:
Human capital and inequality

Chair: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna University of Technology

  1. An agent-based computational model of assortative mating and the reversal of gender inequality in education in Europe • André Grow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ; Jan Van Bavel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ; Yolien De Hauw, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  2. New global estimates of mean years of schooling for 171 countries • Michaela Potancokova, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) ; Samir K.C., Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) ; Anne Goujon, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) ; Ramon Bauer, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU)

  3. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): measuring within-country inequalities for selected indicators using IPUMS-International Data (1990-2010) • Ana Cuesta, University of Minnesota ; Rodrigo Lovaton Davila, University of Minnesota

  4. Educational mismatch, gender and racial wage inequality: evidence on the persistence of high-skilled blacks and women in low-skilled jobs in Brazil • Mariana Salemi, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) ; Ana Hermeto, Cedeplar, UFMG

  5. Measuring education in the century of change • Markus Speringer, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) ; Anne Goujon, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) ; Samir K.C., Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) ; Michaela Potancokova, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU)

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