Previous Inequalities Seminars
The Inequalities Seminar Series at the International Inequalities Institute is a venue for scholars from LSE and beyond to present their innovative work on social and economic inequality. The seminars are open and free to all.
Previous Inequalities Seminars
A political economy definition of the middle class
2 June 2026
Speaker:
Dr Alejandro Corvalan, Associate Professor of Economics, Universidad de Chile
Who gets ahead? Cross-country evidence on intragenerational income mobility
26 May 2026
Speaker:
Javier Terrero Dávila, Economist, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
Capital and labour at the top: new evidence from the 1936 US income tax project
19 May 2026
Speaker:
Dr Miguel Artola Blanco, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Carlos III University of Madrid
Adverse hot-humid conditions and educational outcomes in India: impact measurement and mitigation pathways
12 May 2026
Speaker:
Dr Sofie Waltl, Assistant Professor in Real Estate Economics and Finance, Department of Land Economy and Director of Studies, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
A post-apartheid analysis of intra-racial earnings inequality in South Africa
5 May 2026
Speaker:
Mlondi Mveli Mdluli, PhD Candidate, University of Reading and Member of Parliament in South Africa
Death and taxes: inheritance tax planning and unexpected mortality
31 March 2026
Speaker:
Dr Jeanne Bomare, Research Officer, LSE III
The rising tide: floods as drivers of income and welfare inequality in South Africa
24 March 2026
Speakers:
Dr Annalena Oppel, Research Fellow, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, LSE
Dr Enrico Nichelatti, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg
Private capital markets and inequality
10 March 2026
Speaker:
Dr Clara Martínez-Toledano, Assistant Professor of Financial Economics, Imperial College London; Wealth Distribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator, WID.world
Modern labour markets: an employment-capability framework for the future of work
17 February 2026
Speaker:
Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch, Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE III
Examining poverty reduction and welfare through the lens of empathy and dignity
10 February 2026
Speaker:
Dr Keetie Roelen, Senior Research Fellow in Poverty and Social Protection and Co-Deputy Director at the Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD), Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS), Open University
Residential diversity in young adulthood and later life attitudes toward immigration
3 February 2026
Speaker:
Dr Haley McAvay, Associate Professor of Sociology, LSE Department of Sociology
Intergenerational income mobility and assortative mating in Sweden
27 January 2026
Speaker:
Professor Markus Jäntti, Professor of Economics, Stockholm University
Inequality values as excess shares
20 January 2026
Speaker:
Professor Anthony Shorrocks, Visiting Professor, LSE III
Poverty without poverty line
Tuesday 21 January 2025
Speaker: Dr Olivier Sterck, Associate Professor, University of Antwerp & University of Oxford
Political economy of urban land grabbing in India: local developers, fragmented development and perils of governance
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Speaker: Dr Ajay Kumar-Gautam, Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow, LSE III
(De)Mobilizing effects of misinformation: evidence from Brazil
Tuesday 4 February 2025
Speaker: Dr Fred Batista, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration University of North Carolina, Charlotte
POLINEQUAL: Exploring representations of economic inequality and their implications in three European welfare regimes
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Speakers: Professor Sonja Zmerli, Professor, Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA; Dr Daniel Walsh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA
The historical incarceration penalty in the U.S.
Tuesday 18 February 2025
Speaker: Dr Ellora Derenoncourt, Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Using microdata and microsimulations to estimate historical income distributions at high frequency: Italy, 1861-2021
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Speaker: Professor Giovanni Vecchi, Professor of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Leaving Legacies and Liabilities: The Distribution of Wealth at Death
Tuesday 11 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Franziska Disslbacher, Assistant Professor, Research Institute Economics of Inequality and the Department Socioeconomics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Lived experiences of financial hardship and perspectives on inequality: can Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques assist in the qualitative analysis of large sets of biographical interviews?
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Speaker: Professor Jane Elliott, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE III
Hope for Changemakers: Evidence and Narratives
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Irene Guijt, Head of Evidence and Strategic Learning, Oxfam GB
Art World Ethnography or How to study VIPs when you are not one
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Speaker: Dr Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi, LSE Fellow in Culture and Society, Department of Sociology
Equity vs Efficiency of Indirect Taxation in India
Tuesday 6 May 2025
Speaker: Dr Pierre Bachas, Economist, World Bank Development Research Group
Narratives of Inequality
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Speakers: Professor Joan Costa-i-Font, Professor of Health Economics, LSE Department of Health Policy and co-leader of the Perceptions of Inequality research programme, LSE III; Professor Frank Cowell, Professor of Economics, LSE Department of Economics and co-leader of the Perceptions of Inequality research programme; Jakob Dirksen, PhD candidate, LSE Department of Social Policy
Patrons, Protégés, and Peers: Workplace Mechanisms of Intergenerational Inequality
Tuesday 27 May 2025
Speaker: Dr Per Engzell, Associate Professor of Sociology at UCL Social Research Institute
Cumulative exposure to climate risks in Europe: A multidimensional framework for present and future vulnerabilities
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Speaker: Dr Amaia Palencia Esteban, Research Officer, LSE III
Jobless Industrialization
Tuesday 10 June 2025
Speaker: Professor Marcela Eslava, Professor of Economics, Universidad de Los Andes
Local versus National: The effect of income (mis)perceptions on inequality beliefs and preferences
Tuesday 30 September 2025
Speaker: Dr Katy Morris, Postdoctoral Fellow, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University.
Structural Changes and Intergenerational Educational Mobility during the Twentieth Century
Tuesday 7 October 2025
Speaker: Dr Mobarak Hossain, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Policy, LSE
Very simple models of economic inequality and how to solve it
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Speaker: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet, Professor of the Political Economy of Development, LSE
(Un-)Persistent Conflict? The Effects of First Globalization Coffee Boom in Colombia
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Speaker: Daniel Sanchez-Ordoñez, PhD Candidate, Paris School of Economics
How do social policies unequally restrict reproduction among specific populations?
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Speaker: Dr Laura Sochas, Chancellor's Fellow and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Intergenerational Income Mobility around the World: A Meta-Analysis
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Speaker: Dr Louis Sirugue, Research Officer, LSE III
Inequalities Seminar - Is Poverty Decline in India Falterering?
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Speaker: Professor Peter Lanjouw, Professor of Development Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Discrimination Law and the Family
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Speaker: Professor Tarun Khaitan, Professor (Chair) of Public Law, LSE Law School
Local Cost of Living and the Geography of Inequality: Evidence from Spain
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Speaker: Dr Beatriz Jambrina Canseco, Research Officer, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Billionaire Responses to the Recently Increased Appetite to Tax their Wealth
Tuesday 9 December 2025
Speaker: Professor Marlies Glasius, Professor in International Relations, Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam
Do low-quality jobs pay more? Poor-Quality Employment in Europe
Tuesday 16 January 2024
Speakers: Mauricio Apablaza, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile; Gaston Yalonetzky, University of Leeds
Inequality measurement for bounded variables
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Speaker: Suman Seth, Leeds University Business School
How Do Inheritances Shape Wealth Inequality? Evidence from India
Tuesday 30 January 2024
Speakers: Kalaiyarasan Arumugam, Assistant Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai; Vikash Vaibhav, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities (JSLH)
Cultural Capital and Access to Opportunity in India
Tuesday 6 February 2024
Speaker: Sam Asher, Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, Imperial College Business School
Then and Now: How Neighbourhood Deprivation in Youth Influences Attitudes towards Inequality
Tuesday 13 February 2024
Speaker: Franco Bonomi Bezzo, Post-Doctoral Researcher, La Statale, University of Milan
More Unequal or Not as Rich? Dilemmas over Distributional National Accounts for Latin America
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Speaker: Dr Marc Morgan, Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Geneva (UNIGE)
Unequal Estate Division for Wealth Perpetuation: Portfolios, Primogeniture, and Patrilineality
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Speaker: Dr Nhat An Trinh, Research Officer, Institute for New Economic Thinking & Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
Inequality of Opportunity and Investment Choices
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Speaker: Michelle Brock, Associate Director, Senior Research Economist, Office of the Chief Economist at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Speaker: Roberto Iacono, Associate Professor in Economics and Social Policy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Crypto-Utopian Occult Revival and Anti/Fascism
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Speaker: Erica Lagalisse, Visiting Fellow, LSE III
Plus ça change? Continuity and change in social attitudes and worldviews in 21st century Brazil
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Speakers: Dr Fabrício Mendes Fialho, Research Fellow, LSE III; Alberto C. Almeida, Director, Brasilis Institute
Welfare regime hybridisation and social inequalities
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Speaker: Dr Zahid Mumtaz, LSE Fellow, LSE Department of Social Policy
The Gini and the tonic: Understanding the dynamics of inequality measurement
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Speaker: Professor Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Professor of Development Economics and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research, Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor, LSE III
Multiple oppressions and resistances in spaces of inequality: A study from the indigenous landscapes of eastern India
Tuesday 8 October 2024
Speaker: Dr Richard Toppo, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Antwerp
Welfare goes global: making progress and catching up
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Speaker: Professor Richard Rose, Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde
Freedom counts: cross-country empirical evidence on the ranking of opportunity sets
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Speaker: Professor Erik Schokkaert, Professor Emeritus of Welfare and Health Economics, KULeuven
Changing children’s concentration on income distribution and its consequences for inequality and poverty
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Speaker: Professor Berkay Ozcan, Professor of Social and Public Policy, Department of Social Policy, LSE
The impact of extreme climate events on income distribution in Italy: a municipality-level analysis
Tuesday 12 November 2024
Speaker: Dr Elisa Palagi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Economics, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Local wealth inequality fuels political protests: New big-data evidence from 89 Global South countries
Tuesday 26 November 2024
Speaker: Dr Davide Luca, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Visiting Fellow, LSE III
The sound of difference - discussing race, class and the politics of 'diversity' in classical music
Tuesday 10 December 2024
Speaker: Dr Kristina Kolbe, Assistant Professor in Sociology of Arts and Culture, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University of Rotterdam and Visiting Fellow, LSE III
The role of social norms in shaping collective action
Tuesday 24 January 2023
Speaker: Professor Roberto González, Professor of Social Psychology, P. Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)
Dynastic measures of intergenerational mobility
Tuesday 31 January 2023
Speaker: Dr Flaviana Palmisano, Associate Professor of Public Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Analysing intergenerational mobility with oriented measures and mobility curves
Tuesday 7 February 2023
Speaker: Professor James Foster, Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, George Washington University
Qualitative analysis at scale: An application to aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
Monday 13 February 2023
Speakers: Dr Vijayendra (Biju) Rao, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank; Dr Julian Ashwin, Post-doctoral Researcher, London Business School
Viable Lives: Life beyond survival in rural North India
Tuesday 7 March 2023
Speakers: Professor Craig Jeffrey, Professor of Human Geography, University of Melbourne; Associate Professor Jane Dyson, Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Melbourne
The Changing Nature of Global Economy: Digital Technology, Labour and Inequality
Tuesday 14 March 2023
Speaker: Professor Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Job loss and earnings inequality: Distributional effects from re-employment in Chile
Thursday 23 March 2023
Speaker: Dr Rafael Carranza, Postdoctoral Research Officer at INET Oxford and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow, LSE III
Oligarch Sanctions: policies, evasion strategies and side effects
Tuesday 2 May 2023
Speaker: Dr Elisabeth Schimpfössl, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Aston University and Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE III
The Dynamics of Lifetime Incomes in France
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Speaker: Professor Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Professor of Economics, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Assessment of Individual Income Growth with Relative Concerns
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Speaker: Professor Elena Bárcena Martín, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Malaga
Job Insecurity, Savings and Consumption: an Italian experiment
Tuesday 23 May 2023
Speaker: Professor Conchita D’Ambrosio, Professor of Economics, Université du Luxembourg
Aid and the Transnational Extraction of Care
Tuesday 30 May 2023
Speaker: Dr Dinah Hannaford, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Houston
Understanding vulnerabilities of countries for enabling resilient, inclusive and sustainable development
Tuesday 26 September 2023
Speaker: Dr Ruth Kattumuri, Founder and Co-Chair of the India Observatory, III
The century of the citizen?
Tuesday 3 October 2023
Speaker: Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Chief Executive of Oxfam GB and Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE III
The evolution of the income floor in Great Britain, 1991-2021: a comparison of cross-sectional and longitudinal estimates
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Speaker: Dr H. Xavier Jara, Research Officer, LSE III
A far-right frontrunner in the 2023 Argentina’s general election: Who are Javier Milei’s supporters?
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Speaker: Valeria Ana Brusco, Adjunct Professor, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Do changes in communication systems matter to the politics of inequality?
Tuesday 24 October 2023
Speaker: Dr Michael Vaughan, Research Officer, LSE III
The role of admission criteria in reducing gender imbalances in higher education
Tuesday 7 November 2023
Speaker: Dr Valentina Contreras, Research Officer, LSE III
Sketching the world elite database
Tuesday 21 November 2023
Speakers: Dr Paul Lagneau-Ymonet, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL; Dr Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Associate Professor, Cophenhagen Business School
Reconciling equality of opportunity and aversion to income inequality
Tuesday 28 November 2023
Speaker: Professor Vito Peragine, Professor of Economics, University of Bari
How women win the Latin American presidency
Tuesday 5 December 2023
Speaker: Dr Catherine Reyes-Housholder, Assistant Professor, Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Unfair Health Inequalities in the UK
Tuesday 18 January 2022
Speaker: Dr Paolo Brunori (Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, LSE III)
The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Inequality and Poverty
Tuesday 25 January 2022
Speaker: Dr Nishant Yonzan (Poverty and Inequality team, World Bank Group)
Global Wealth, Gender and Carbon Injustice: new findings from the World Inequality Report 2022
Tuesday 1 February 2022
Speaker: Dr Lucas Chancel (World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics)
Mountain Tales: love and loss in the municipality of castaway belongings
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Speaker: Saumya Roy (Co-Founder, Vandana Foundation)
Crunch Time: how married couples confront unemployment
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Speaker: Dr Aliya Rao (Department of Methodology, LSE)
Multidimensional Quality of Employment (QoE) Dynamics: evidence from men and women in Chile
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Speaker: Dr Joaquin Prieto-Suarez (Research Officer, LSE III)
‘The Library Is like a Mother’: arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Speaker: Professor Susanne Wessendorf (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)
The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods in the U.S., 1970-2020
Tuesday 10 May 2022, 12:30 to 1:30pm. Online public event.
Speaker: Professor Michael Lens, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA
Citizenship 4 Sale: Millionaires, Microstates, and Mobility
Tuesday 17 May 2022
Speaker: Dr Kristin Surak, Assistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE
Social reproduction and care: what’s in a name?
Tuesday 24 May 2022
Speaker: Dr Sara Farris, Reader in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths
Prioritarianism in Practice
Tuesday 31 May 2022
Speakers: Professor Matthew Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy, Duke University; Professor Francisco Ferreira, Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and LSE III Director
Of Victims, Sisters and Caring: Anti-trafficking, State and the Sex Workers’ Movement in Sonagachi
Tuesday 7 June 2022
Speakers: Dr Simanti Dasgupta, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Dayton; Dr Samita Sen, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Understanding Inequality in India
Tuesday 27 September 22
Speaker: Professor Reetika Khera, Narendra and Chandra Singhi Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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Evaluating Allocations of Opportunities
Tuesday 4 October 2022
Speaker: Dr Francesco Andreoli, Associate Professor of Economic Policy, University of Verona
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Mobilising Productive Subjectivities: Transnational production and social reproduction in unequal Europe
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Speaker: Dr Ania Plomien, Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, LSE
Challenges Facing Liberal Democracies: Citizenship and civil society confronting growing inequality
Tuesday 18 October 2022
Speaker: Professor Thomas P. Boje, Professor, Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University
Using Machine Learning to Decompose Inequality: The Case of Opportunity in South Africa
Tuesday 25 October 2022
Speaker: Dr Pedro Salas-Rojo, Research Officer, LSE III
Multidimensional measurement tool for social security framework assessment: Conceptualisation, construction and comparison
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Speaker: Dr Ashish Dongare, Sir Ratan Tata Postdoctoral Fellow, LSE III
Social Reproduction and Domestic Service: An International Comparison
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Speaker: Dr Marion Lieutaud, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, LSE Department of Methodology and Visiting Fellow, LSE III; Dr Paul Segal, Reader in Economics of Development, Department of International Development, Kings College London and Visiting Fellow, LSE III
The Impact of Caste and Untouchability: A Missing Link in the Literature on Stunting in India
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Speaker: Professor Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics and Founding Director, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Ashoka University, India
The emergence of a social decolonisation: the question of social change in the French West Indies after World War II
Tuesday 29 November 2022
Speaker: Dr Maël Lavenaire, Research Fellow, LSE III
Estimating Labour Supply and Informality Elasticities Using Tax-benefit Variation in Latin America
Tuesday 6 December 2022
Speakers: Dr Xavier Jara, Research Officer, LSE III; Professor Olivier Bargain, Professor of Economics, University of Bordeaux
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich
2 February 2021
Speakers: Dr David Hope, Department of Political Economy, Kings College London, Visiting Research Fellow, International Inequalities Institute; Dr Julian Limberg, Department of Political Economy, Kings College London
The Changing Geography of Social Mobility in the United States
16 February 2021
Speaker: Dr Dylan Connor, Assistant Professor at School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Households, Inequalities and Care: lockdown experiences from the UK, New Zealand and India
9 March 2021
Speakers: Dr Alpa Shah, Associate Professor of Anthropology, LSE; Professor Laura Bear, Professor of Anthropology, LSE; Dr Nick Long, Associate Professor of Anthropology, LSE
When Violence Endures: inequality, resistance, and repression in India's Maoist guerrilla zones
23 March 2021
Speaker: Dr George Kunnath, Research Fellow, LSE III
Anonymous and Non-Anonymous Growth Incidence Curves in the United States, 1968-2016
30 March 2021
Speaker: Professor François Bourguignon, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics
Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the United States, 1950-2020
4 May 2021
Speaker: Yonatan Berman, Research Fellow, London Mathematical Laboratory
Refusing Discriminatory Technologies of Power: racial justice and the challenge of hi-tech policing
11 May 2021
Speaker: Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
Faces of Inequality: a mixed methods approach to multidimensional inequalities
18 May 2021
Speaker: Paul Segal, Reader in Economics of Development, Department of International Development, King's College London
Intergenerational Transfers, Wealth and Gender in Britain
25 May 2021
Speakers: Brian Nolan, Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford; Juan Palomino, Research Officer, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
Caste, Class and Social Mobility in Palanpur
28 September 2021
Speaker: Dr Floriane Bolazzi, Università degli Studi di Milano
Researching Race and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry
12 October 2021
Speakers: Dr Clive Nwonka, Visiting Fellow, LSE III; University College London; Professor Sarita Malik, Brunel University London
Feminist Readings of COVID-19: a conversation
19 October 2021
Speakers: Professor Naila Kabeer, Department of Gender Studies, LSE; Dr Alessandra Mezzadri, Department of Development Studies, SOAS; Dr Sara Stevano, Department of Economics, SOAS
Is Inequality a Side Effect of Central Bank Independence?
26 October 2021
Speaker: Dr Andreas Kern, Georgetown University
Political Equality: what is it and why does it matter?
9 November 2021
Speaker: Professor Tim Besley, Department of Economics, LSE
New Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity Across European Cohorts
16 November 2021
Speaker: Professor Philippe Van Kerm, University of Luxembourg
Shackled in Debt: Global Capitalism, Economic Crisis and Penal Politics in Greece
23 November 2021
Speaker: Dr Leonidas Cheliotis, Department of Social Policy, LSE
Does Dual Citizenship Reproduce Inequalities?
30 November 2021
Speaker: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey, Department of Social Policy, LSE
Is there a 'Grand Gender Convergence' in 21st Century Canada? The Jury is still out
7 December 2021
Speaker: Professor Gordon Anderson, University of Toronto
The Wealth Inequality of Nations: exploring and explaining cross-national differences in wealth
21 January 2020
Speaker: Dr Nora Waitkus, Research Officer, LSE International Inequalities Institute
It’s Slippery at the Top: churn and anxiety amongst elite families
4 February 2020
Speaker: Dr Luna Glucksberg, Research Fellow, LSE International Inequalities Institute
The dog that didn’t bark? Income inequality and the absence of a Tawney moment in the mass media
18 February 2020
Speakers: Dr Patrick McGovern, Director of the MSc International Migration and Public Policy and Associate Professor (Reader), Department of Sociology, LSE; Dr Sandra Obradović, LSE Fellow, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE; Professor Martin W. Bauer, Director of MSc Social & Public Communication and Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
Racial Capitalism, Resurgent Populism, and the Politics of Rightsfocus
25 February 2020
Speaker: Professor Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, University of Washington
Why do people stay poor?
29 September 2020
Speaker: Professor Oriana Bandiera, Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair in Economics and Director of STICERD
Culture Is Bad for You: inequality in the cultural and creative industries
13 October 2020
Speaker: Dr Dave O'Brien, Chancellor’s Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Edinburgh
Lives and Livelihoods: estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
27 October 2020
Speaker: Dr Benoit Decerf, University of Namur
Found in Translation? Language Legislation and Pro-Social Preferences
17 November 2020
Speaker: Frank A. Cowell, Department of Economics, LSE
The Effects of Cash Transfers on Formal Labor Markets: evidence from Brazil
1 December 2020
Speaker: Dr Joana Naritomi, Assistant Professor, Department of International Development, LSE
The Paradox of Inequality: income inequality and belief in meritocracy go hand in hand
22 January 2019
Speaker: Dr Jonathan Mijs, International Inequalities Institute, LSE
The Missing Billions: Measuring Top Incomes in the UK
5 February 2019
Speaker: Dr Andrew Summers, Department of Law, LSE
How the Reification of Merit Breeds Inequality: theory and experimental evidence
26 February 2019
Speaker: Dr Fabien Accominotti, Department of Sociology, LSE
Adventures in Anarcolandia: the complexities and contradictions of transnational anarchist social movements
12 March 2019
Speaker: Dr Erica Lagalisse, International Inequalities Institute, LSE
A tale of two towns: what the fortunes of Oldham and Oxford tell us about spatial inequality in Britain
26 March 2019
Speaker: Dr Mark Fransham, International Inequalities Institute, LSE
The open-and-shut case of inequality
7 May 2019
Speaker: Dr Jan Vandemoortele
Can public consensus identify a ‘riches line’?
21 May 2019
Speakers: Dr Katharina Hecht, LSE III; Abigail Davis, Loughborough University
The life and times of categorical inequality: class, gender and race in long term historical perspective
1 October 2019
Speaker: Professor Mike Savage, Director, International Inequalities Institute, LSE
Between Communism and Capitalism: Long-Term Inequality in Poland, 1892-2015
15 October 2019
Speaker: Pawel Bukowski, Research Officer, LSE
Superstar cities and left-behind places: A long-run perspective on U.S. interregional inequality
29 October 2019
Speaker: Dr Tom Kemeny, Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute
Who Cares in a Shrinking State? Responsibility and Respectability Reconsidered
19 November 2019
Speakers: Professor Mary Evans, LSE Centennial Professor, Department of Gender Studies, LSE; Professor Beverley Skeggs, III Research Theme Convenor and AFSEE Academic Advisor, International Inequalities Institute; Dr Insa Koch, Associate Professor of Law and Anthropology, Department of Law
Aristocratic, Highbrow and Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction 1897-2016
3 December 2019
Speaker: Dr Sam Friedman, Director, MSc Inequalities and Social Science and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Economic and Racial Drivers of Toxic Inequality in the United States: Two Narratives, One Story
16 January 2018
Speaker: Professor Thomas Shapiro, Brandeis University
Income Inequality and Welfare Systems in the Yugoslav Successor States
23 January 2018
Speakers: Dr Will Bartlett, LSEE Research on South East Europe; Dr Nermin Oruč, Center for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research, Sarajevo; Dr Jelena Žarković Rakic, University of Belgrade; Dr Gorana Krstić, University of Belgrade
Selective schooling and its relationship to private tutoring: lessons from South Korea
30 January 2018
Speaker: Dr Sonia Exley, LSE Social Policy
The stakes of trade policy: global and domestic inequalities
20 February 2018
Speaker: Dr Sarah Goff, LSE Government
The Effects of Welfare Programs on Formal Labour Markets in Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil
20 March 2018
Speaker: Dr Joana Naritomi, LSE International Development
Great Expectations: Is the IMF turning words into action on inequality?
1 May 2018
Speaker: Chiara Mariotti, Inequality Policy Manager, Oxfam
Recasting the UNDP's Human Development Measures
8 May 2018
Speaker: Professor Sudhir Anand
Gender Inequalities in India
29 May 2018
Speakers: Dr Naila Kabeer; Nivedita Narain, PRADAN
Ethnographic exploration of the socio-economic transformation of the Basque country
2 October 2018
Speaker: Dr Luna Glucksberg
Inclusive Growth in cities: a sympathetic critique
16 October 2018
Speaker: Dr Neil Lee
Tackling ethnic disparities using websites
30 October 2018
Speaker: Zamila Bunglawala, Visiting Fellow, III and Deputy Director - Strategy and Insight, Race Disparity Unit, Cabinet Office
Experiences of money from the perspectives of London’s ‘rich’ and ‘poor’
20 November 2018
Speakers: Dr Kate Summers; Dr Katharina Hecht
The ‘Essex Hijab’. Fitting into the diverse city: social exclusion, symbolic boundaries and convivial labour in East London
4 December 2018
Speaker: Dr Susanne Wessendorf
Who are the Global Top 1%?
17 January 2017
Speaker: Dr Paul Segal, Senior Lecturer in Economics at King's College London and Visiting Fellow at the III
Regional Inequality and Preferences for Market-Promoting Land Law Reform: Kenya Pilot Study
31 January 2017
Speaker: Professor Catherine Boone, LSE Departments of Government and International Development
Older peoples' experiences of dignity and nutritional support during hospital stays
21 February 2017
Speaker: Dr Polly Vizard, LSE CASE
Adressing recognition gaps: destigmatization processes and the making of inequality
7 March 2017
Speaker: Professor Michele Lamont, Harvard University
Dynamics of Democracy and Inequality in the context of Globalization
21 March 2017
Speaker: Dr Dena Freeman, Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, LSE and Associate of the III
Health and Income Inequality Aversion: results from a UK survey experiment
25 April 2017
Speaker: Dr Joan Costa-i-Font, LSE Social Policy and European Institute
Inequalities Seminar: Post-Industrialisation in the East Midlands: ethnographic narratives from the communities that were thrown under the Brexit bus
2 May 2017
Speaker: Dr Lisa Mckenzie, LSE Sociology
Inequalities Seminar: Intersecting inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals: insights from Brazil
9 May 2017
Speaker: Professor Naila Kabeer, LSE Gender Institute and Department of International Development
The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897-2016
10 October 2017
Speakers: Dr Aaron Reeves, LSE III; Dr Sam Friedman, LSE Sociology
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Do Firms Manage Pay Inequality?
24 October 2017
Speaker: Professor Paul Willman
Can Social Landlords Make Private Renting Work Better?
4 November 2017
Speaker: Professor Anne Power
Inequality as Service
28 November 2017
Speaker: Dr Paul Segal, King's College London; LSE III
Top Incomes and the Gender Divide
27 September 2016
Speakers: Professor Alessandra Casarico, Bocconi; Dr Sarah Voitchovsky, University of Melbourne
The Organizational Production of Earnings Inequalities
25 October 2016
Speaker: Professor Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, UMASS
The Strength of Weak Performance: a relational theory of executive pay
8 November 2016
Speaker: Professor Thomas A. DiPrete, Columbia University
Support for Redistribution: preferences for reducing economic inequality in the US and Sweden
29 November 2016
Speaker: Professor Leslie McCall, Northwestern University