Session 77-- Wealth accumulation, inequality and growth in the long run; new perspectives derived from individual and family data

This session has been cancelled.

Title: Wealth accumulation, inequality and growth in the long run; new perspectives derived from individual and family data

Organizers: Jérôme Bourdieu (INRA, France), Paul-André Rosenthal (EHESS and INED, France) and Akiko Suwa (INRA-DELTA, France)
Address: Jérôme Bourdieu, INRA, 48 boulevard Jourdan, Paris 750014, France. 
Ph: 33 101 43 13 63 67. Fax: 33 1 01 43 13 63 61. 
Email: jerome.bourdieu@ens.fr.

Description of the session: Economists as well as historians have shown increasing interest in the links between growth and inequality (Lindert etc.). The various forms of capital accumulation and transmission -capital being intended not only as economic capital but as other forms of capital as well- play a crucial role in the growth and inequality persitence patterns. In addition to analyses of macro-economic data, a number of contributions raise new questions and point out new results as to the inter-generational mechanisms underlying those patterns. Those contributions exploit novel economic and demographic individual data sources, covering a long historical period, and sometimes containing genealogic reconstitutions of families. The aim of the session would be to give an opportunity for researchers engaged into mainly national programmes to meet together and confront their empirical sources and methodologies as well as their results.
 

Provisional List of Participants:
John Adams (University of South Carolina, USA)
Cameron Campbell (UCLA, USA)
Kyung-Keun Kim, (Jeonbuk University, South Korea)
Alice Bee Kasakoff (University of South Carolina, USA)
Jérôme Bourdieu (INRA, France)
Gilles Postel-Vinay (INRA and EHESS, France)
Paul-André Rosental (EHESS and INED, France)
Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann (INRA-DELTA, France)




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