VIII Meetings of the LACEA / IADB / WB
Research Network on Inequality and Poverty (NIP)
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Ciudad de Mexico
Camino a Santa Teresa 930, Mexico D.F. 10700
November 1, 2006
Organizers: Luis F. Lopez-Calva and Jaime Saavedra
09:00-10:30
Session I: Trade Integration
Chair: Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva
- “Trade Liberalization, Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Latin America”
Guillermo Perry and Marcelo Olarreaga (The World Bank)
Discussant: Dante Contreras (Universidad de Chile)*
- “Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income”
Joseph Francois (Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University), Hugo RojasRomagosa (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)
Discussant: Samuel Freije (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla)
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:30
Session II: On Macro Determinants of Informality
Chair: Omar Arias
- “The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Informality, Wages and Productivity:
Evidence from Mexico”
Benjamin Aleman-Castilla (LSE)
Discussant: Rolando Guzman (Grupo de Consultoria Pareto)*
- “Brazil Secular Evolution of Informality”
William Maloney (The World Bank)
Discussant: Rudi Rocha (Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade)
- “Explaining Trends in Informality in Argentina”
Walter Sosa (Universidad de San Andres)
Discussant: Federico Weinschelbaum (Universidad de San Andrés)
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Session III: Micro Elements of Formality
- “The impact of lowering barriers to becoming formal in Brazil”
Pablo Fajnzylber (The World Bank)
Discussant: Eduardo Rodríguez Oreggia (Universidad Iberoamericana)*
- “Are Burdensome Registration Procedures an Important Barrier on Firm
Creation? Evidence from Mexico”
Enrique Seira (Stanford University)
Discussant: Fernando Salas (IQOM Inteligencia Comercial)*
- “Becoming an entrepreneur”
Hugo Nopo and Patricio Valenzuela (IADB)
Discussant: Mariano Rojas (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla)*
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:00
Session IV: Migration
Chair: Rodolfo de la Torre
- “Migration and Inequality”
Alfredo Cuecuecha (ITAM)
Discussant: León Fernandez Bujanda (Banco Central de Venezuela)
- “The Role of Migration in Family Transfers. Is there a trade-off between time
and money assistance?”
Veronica Alaimo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Discussant: Christian Jaramillo (Universidad de los Andes)
17:00-18:30
Keynote Speaker
Chair: Jaime Saavedra
- “Inequality Measurement”
James E. Foster (Vanderbilt University)
* To be confirmed.
November 2-4, 2006
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Ciudad de Mexico
Río Hondo No. 1, Col. Progreso Tizapán, México, D.F., México, 01080
November 2, 2006
12:30-13:35 Session I: Poverty and Growth
NIP and International Poverty Center, UNDP
Co-organizers:
Eduardo Zepeda
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva
Presenters:
- “MDG’s in Mexico”
Miguel Székely Pardo and Araceli Ortega (SEDESOL)
- “Measuring Chronic Poverty”
James Foster (Vanderbilt University)
(Universidad Nacional del Sur-Conicet)
and
Maria
Emma
Santos
- “Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico:
Different Contexts and Strategies, Same Results”
Sergei Soares (IPEA), Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Osorio and Eduardo
Zepeda (IPC).
- “Pattern of Growth in Household Income and Employment in Brazil,
Chile, Venezuela and Mexico”
Eduardo Zepeda (IPC), Diana Alarcon (IADB), Rafael Osorio (IPC) and
Fabio Soares (IPEA).
15:15-16:30 Session II: Decentralization and Public Services Delivery
NIP and The World Bank
Co-organizers:
Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva
Presenters:
Gladys Lopez-Acevedo (The World Bank)
Steven B. Webb (The World Bank)
Discussants:
Gerardo Esquivel (El Colegio de Mexico)
Alberto Diaz Cayeros (Stanford University)
November 4, 2006
11:00-12:15
NIP
Presenters:
Session III: Human Capital and Wages
- “Estimating the Returns to Education: Accounting for Heterogeneity in
Ability”
Harry Anthony Patrinos (The World Bank), Cris Ridao-Cano (The World
Bank) and Chris Sakellariou (Nanyang Technological University)
- “The Effectiveness of Private School Networks in Chile’s National
Voucher Program”
Dante Contreras (Universidad de Chile), Gregory Elacqua (Universidad
Adolfo Ibanez) and Felipe Salazar (Universidad Adolfo Ibanez)
- “Mexico: Human Capital Effects on Wages and Productivity”
Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Monica Tinajero and Marcela Rubio (The World
Bank)
- “The Microeconomics of Poverty Traps in Mexico”
Jean-Paul Chavas (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Hector J.
Villarreal (EGAP, ITESM)
13:45-15:00 Session IV:
NIP and Network on Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP)
Co-organizers:
John Cockburn
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva
Presenters:
- “Segmentation in the Brazilian Labor Market”
Fernando Botelho and Vladimir Ponczek (Princeton University)
- “What is the Size of the Pie? Measuring the Informal Economy in Latin
America and the Caribbean”
Guillermo Vuletin (University of Maryland)
- “CGE model for evaluating Social Security Reform in Argentina”
Maria Laura Alzua and Hernan Rufo (Fundación Mediterránea, IERAL)
- “Tax Reform, Income Distribution and Poverty in Brazil: An Applied
General Equilibrium Analysis”
Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreiro Filho (University of São Paulo),
Carliton Vieira dos Santos Acosta (Universidade Estadual do Oeste do
Paraná), Sandra Maria do Prado Lima (Universidade Estadual de
Londrina)