London InequalityNetwork

The London Inequality Network (LIN) is a cross-disciplinary initiative to foster interactions across UK-based researchers working on inequality. LIN organizes once a term an academic workshop to enhance connections and collaborations across the network.

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Next London Inequality Workshop

March 20th 2025 at University College London, 4-6pm

Programme of the 10th London Inequality Workshop

Daniele Girardi (King's College London) and Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University of London): Exploitation: Theory and Empirics (with Nicolas Grau and Naoki Yoshihara)

Joao Pereira dos Santos (Queen Mary University London and ISEG-University of Lisbon): Treasure Islands, Real Jobs? Workers and Anti-Avoidance Policies in a Tax Paradise

Third speaker (TBC)

Past London Inequality Workshops

1st London Inequality Workshop 11/03/2022 (UCL)

Clara Martinez-Toledano (Imperial): Wealth Inequality in Europe and the US: Understanding the Determinants

Paul Segal (KCL): Economic Inequality, Social Inequality, and Social Reproduction

Rafael Wildauer (Greenwich): The missing rich: Analysing thick tailed wealth and income survey data

2nd London Inequality Workshop 16/06/2022 (KCL)

Juan Palomino (Oxford): Inequality of Opportunity in Educational Achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels.

Marco Ranaldi (UCL): Compositional Inequality: A Research Agenda

Alvaro Zuniga-Cordero (PSE): Exposure to globalization and political realignments: the transition from a two-party to a multi-party electoral system in Costa Rica.

3rd London Inequality Workshop 10/11/2022 (LSE)

Nora Waitkus (LSE), Where Income becomes Wealth: The Moderating Effect of Income Taxation (with Manuel Schechtl)

Pawel Bukowski (UCL), Linking National and Regional Income Inequalities

David Burgherr LSE), The UK’s global economic elite: A sociological analysis using tax data (with Arun Advani, Mike Savage and Andy Summers)

4th London Inequality Workshop 09/02/2023 (Imperial)

Michele Bavaro (Oxford), Simulating Long Run Wealth Distribution and Transmission: the role of Inter-Generational Transfers

Per Engzell (UCL), Firms and the Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Market Advantage

Ararat Gocmen (UCL), Before class struggle: inequality in European political and economic thought from More to Marx

5th London Inequality Workshop 08/06/2023 (Oxford)

Simon Toussaint (LSE), Household Wealth and its distribution in the Netherlands, 1854-2019

Selçuk Bedük (Oxford), Insurance against risk? Economic cost and compensation of job loss in different welfare states

6th London Inequality Workshop 16/11/2023 (LSE)

Joel Suss (BoE), GEOWEALTH: Spatial wealth inequality data for the United States, 1960-2020

Greta Morando (UCL), Maternal Locus of Control and Long-Term Child Skill Development

Yonatan Berman (KCL), The Political Effects of Inequality-Increasing Policy: Evidence from a Tax and Welfare Reform

7th London Inequality Workshop 15/02/2024 (KCL)

Tak Wing Chan (UCL), Social Diversity and Social Cohesion in Britain

Amaia Palencia Esteban (LSE), The effects of minimum wage increase on outsourced workers: evidence from Spain

Burak Sonmez (UCL), The Role of Merit and Structural Inequality in Redistributive Preferences: Experimental Evidence from the US and the UK

8th London Inequality Workshop 21/05/2024 (Oxford)

Ben Tippet (Greenwich), Finding fortunes: a new methodology to tackle differential response bias in wealth and income survey data

Juliet-Nil Uraz (LSE), The Impacts of Reduced Access to Legal Assistance: Evidence from England and Wales

Ignacio Vicente Hauser Eraso (University of Lyon), Estimating income inequality across the 50 U.S. states: Does the choice of inequality measure really matter?

9th London Inequality Workshop 28/10/2024 (Imperial)

Arun Advani (Warwick), How should capital gains be taxed?

Vrinda Mittal (University of North Carolina), Private Capital Markets and Inequality

Marco Ranaldi (UCL), Global Perspective on Italian Capitalism