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