IV Meeting of the LACEA/IDB/WB
Research Network on Inequality and Poverty

Madrid, Spain
Banco de España, Alcalá 522
October 10th, 2002

Agenda

8:15 – 8:30   Opening Session

Jaime Saavedra (Chairman of the Executive Committee of the NIP) 

 

 

8:30 – 9:30  Keynote presentation:
"Micro-simulation and Poverty Evaluation of Policies"
Prof.  FranVois Bourguignon (Delta/World Bank)
 

 

SESSION 1: EVALUATION OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS
 

 

9:30 – 10:15

Cristián Aedo (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)

“Una Evaluación Paramétrica y no Paramétrica del Fondo de Tierras y Aguas Indígenas”

Discussant: Suzanne Duryea (Inter-American Development Bank)

 

 

10:15 – 11:00 

Javier Escobal (GRADE, Peru)

“The Benefits of Rural Roads: Enhancing Income Opportunities for the Rural Poor”

Discussant: Francisco Ferreira (The World Bank and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio, PUC-Rio)

 

 

 SESSION II: ACESS TO PUBLIC SERVICES

 

11:30 – 12:15 Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina)

"Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality"

Discussant: Máximo Torero (Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo, GRADE, Peru)
 

 

12:15 – 1:00   

Francesca Recanatini (World Bank Institute)

"Access to Services and Quality Governance: The Case of Peru"

Discussant: Alberto Chong (Interamerican Development Bank)

 

 

SESSION III: INCOME INEQUALITY
 

 

14:30 – 15:15 

Martín González Rozada (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina)

"Why Have Poverty and Income Inequality Increades so Much? Argentina 1991-2000"

Discussant: Samuel Freije (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, IESA, Venezuela)

 

 

15:15 – 16:00 

Katherine Terrell (University of Michigan,   Business School)

“The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wage Inequality and Employment in the Formal and Informal Sector”

Discussant: Gustavo Gonzaga (PUC-Rio)

 

 

SESSION IV: DESIGN OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS

 

 

16:30 – 17:15  Luis Rubalcava (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, CIDE, México)

"Welfare Design, Women Empowerment and Income Pooling"

Discussant: Orazio Attanasio (University College London)
 

 

17:15 – 18:00 

Miguel Urquiola (Cornell University)

"When Schools Compete, How Do They Compete? An Assessment of Chile's Nationwide School Voucher Program"


Discussant: Claudio Sapelli (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)