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SMOOTHIE Seminars

The SMOOTHIE seminar series (Statistical Methods to Understand Inherited Inequalities) brings together researchers working on quantitative approaches to inequality.

Hosted as part of the III’s Opportunity, Mobility and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality research programme, the series provides a platform for presenting new work that advances our understanding of how economic, social and institutional factors shape inequalities across generations.

Previous seminars

  • Earnings volatility in Latin America: evidence from administrative data
    18 June 2026
    Speaker: Markus Nabernegg
  • Recessions, Educational Trajectories, and Intergenerational Mobility
    28 May 2026
    Speaker: Matías Ciaschi
  • Accounting for intergenerational income persistence in a new cohort: non-cognitive skills, ability and education
    7 May 2026
    Speaker: Yuyan Jiang
  • Using trusts in the UK: income, wealth and beneficiaries
    1 April 2026
    Speaker: Sanaya Mahajan
  • Monitoring poverty and welfare trends in data-challenging context: Recent evidence from various countries
    30 March 2026
    Speaker: Hai Anh H. Dang
  • Attitudes, beliefs, and support for economic policies
    18 March 2026
    Speaker: Chloé de Meulenaer
  • On decomposable median-based inequality measures for ordinal data
    18 February 2026
    Speaker: Tom Gargani
  • Polarising Perceptions, Converging Preferences – How Inflation Narratives Shape Inequality Beliefs and Policy Support
    11 February 2026
    Speaker: Victoria Hunewaldt
  • Grim Up North? Regional Intergenerational Mobility in Late-Victorian England
    28 January 2026
    Speaker: Ziming Zhu
  • Structural Drivers of Health Inequality: Evidence from 10 Sub-Saharan Countries
    26 November 2025
    Speaker: Mercedes Tejeria Martinez
  • The Role of Education in Explaining Economic Persistence Across Generations
    12 November 2025
    Speaker: Valentina Gabrielli
  • Family Background and Economic Mobility: Evidence from the US
    29 October 2025
    Speaker: Alejandro Puerta Cuartas
  • Shifting Attitudes Towards Inequality Among Chilean Economic Elites Following the 2019 Social Uprising
    13 October 2025
    Speaker: Rafael Carranza
  • AI (un)fairness and (in)equality of opportunity: preliminary results from simulation experiments and a case study on educational performance
    19 May 2025
    Speaker: Gustavo Marrero
  • Measuring Family (Dis)Advantage: Evidence from Detailed Parental Information
    5 February 2025
    Speaker: Sander de Vries
  • Social Mobility, Misallocation of Ability, and Economic Performance: A Lifetime Perspective
    9 December 2024
    Speaker: Matias Ciaschi
  • The network of injustice: A novel approach to inequality of opportunity
    5 December 2024
    Speaker: Francesca Subioli
  • Estimating Intergenerational Mobility in Uruguay with administrative data
    13 November 2024
    Speaker: Tatiana Perez
  • The Geography of Economic Mobility in 19th Century Canada
    14 October 2024
    Speaker: Chris Minns
  • Inequality Decomposition with Machine Learning Methods
    28 March 2024
    Speaker: Emmanuel Flachaire
  • (Un)fair Inequality in the Labor Market—A Pilot
    14 February 2024
    Speaker: Paul Hufe
  • Room for Happiness? Cultural Heterogeneity in Cross-Country Well-Being Comparisons Using Big Data
    24 January 2024
    Speakers: Mateo Sere and Koen Decanq
  • Measuring local, salient economic inequality in the UK
    9 November 2023
    Speaker: Joel Suss
  • Survey to Survey Imputation when External Covariates Matter: Estimating Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico
    7 July 2023
    Speaker: Pedro Torres-Lopez