Conferences, workshops and seminars
Upcoming conferences, workshops and seminars
Gender Budgeting and the Political Economy of Inherited Inequality in Kerala, India
Tuesday 7 July 2026, 12.30pm - 1.30pm. In-person and online seminar. LSE Centre Building, room 12.01.
Speaker:
Dr Ashraf Pulikkamath, Sir Ratan Tata Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow, LSE IIIThis paper examines how welfare policy may interact with social norms and inherited, intersectional structures of inequality to shape life-course outcomes. In conversation with the literature on inherited inequality, the paper explores whether gender-responsive public finance can sometimes operate through existing institutional inequalities across caste, gender, and marriage rather than transforming them.
The study focuses on gender budgeted marriage assistance schemes targeted at historically marginalised Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) women in Kerala, India. Building on qualitative primary data collected from beneficiaries and their families, policy stakeholders across levels, and scholars and community actors in the field, the core analysis examines how marriage, education, and life-course decisions are negotiated within conditions of social and economic constraint. The qualitative analysis is situated within a broader structural context using descriptive evidence from both gender budget and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, particularly focusing on patterns aligned to gender, caste, education, and age-linked transitions.
Tuesday 14 July 2026, 12.30pm - 1.30pm. In-person and online seminar. LSE Centre Building, room 12.01.
Speaker:
Dr Meghna Chotaliya, Subir Chowdhury Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow, LSE IIIFor decades, development policy has focused on expanding access to finance through bank accounts, credit, and digital payments. Yet access alone may not be enough. Drawing on new evidence from Indian states and comparative international experiences, this article argues that the quality of banking institutions, how effectively they mobilize savings, allocate credit, and support productive investment, matters as much as, if not more than, financial inclusion itself. By examining the relationship between banking quality, institutional performance, and economic growth, the article explores whether strengthening banking systems may be one of the most overlooked drivers of long-run development.
The Latin American Chapter ECINEQ-LAC is a newer initiative aimed at extending that spirit of exchange across the region. After a very successful first conference in Mexico City in 2024, we are excited to continue building this community in Montevideo.
The second ECINEQ-LAC conference will be held at Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, on 28th-29th October 2026.
For more information, please visit the conference website.
Previous conferences, workshops and seminars
World Inequality Conference
Co-sponsored by the International Inequalities Institute
4 - 6 June 2026
The International Inequalities Institute supported the the third edition of the World Inequality Conference, organised by the World Inequality Lab.
Multidimensional inequality in Latin America
3 June 2026
Speaker: Andrés Espejo, Economic Affairs Officer, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations
This presentation examined multidimensional inequality in Latin America using harmonised household survey data from twelve countries in the region.
Capitalization of the world: global distribution of income from property
20 May 2026
Speakers:
Professor Branko Milanovic, Research Professor, Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY) and Visiting Professor, LSE III
Dr Marco Ranaldi, Assistant Professor in Economics, University College London and Director, UCL Centre for New Economic Transitions (CNET).
This seminar provides new global evidence on the evolution, distribution, and measurement of capital income, and highlights its implications for inequality analysis in contemporary capitalism.
12 facts about poverty and homelessness in the U.S.
28 April 2026
Speaker:
Professor Bruce D. Meyer, McCormick Foundation Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
This presentation summarizes the results of more than a dozen studies of the extent of poverty and homelessness in the U.S. The results are compared to public perceptions as recorded in a specially designed national opinion survey.
Watch the event recordingBeyond the Divide: Early-Career Conference on Political Dimensions of Urban and Rural Life
Co-hosted by the International Inequalities Institute and the Department of Government
23 – 24 April 2026
This conference was designed to support the development of early-career scholars (PhD students, post docs and assistant professors) working in political science, geography, sociology, urban studies, economics, and other related fields. The conference explored research examining urban politics, rural politics, or comparative analyses between contexts.
Climate Inequalities Mini-Conference
19 March 2026
The Economics of Environmental Inequality programme co-hosted the second Economics of Environment and Energy mini-conference on the topic of Climate Inequalities. Stephane Hallegate (the World Bank’s Chief Economic Advisor for Climate) gave a keynote presentation. The programme also included short student 'egg-timer’ presentations, offering an opportunity to receive feedback on research.
Speaker: Victoria Hünewaldt, PhD candidate, University of Siena
In a nationally representative online survey experiment with 4,000 respondents in Germany, we study how inflation narratives shape beliefs about the distributional consequences of inflation and attitudes toward mitigating policies.
Status mobility in China: past and present
4 March 2026
Speaker: Professor Steven Durlauf, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
This talk will describe intergenerational mobility in China for two distinct epochs: the last 120 years of the Qing Dynasty and the last 30 years for modern China. Novel Markov chain approaches to measuring mobility are employed which provide insights into transitional versus long run mobility patterns for the two periods.