Workshop on Regional Economic Inequalities

Under the Linking National and Regional Inequalities project, the University of Evry - Paris Saclay in collaboration with project members from University of Bonn, McGill, the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, Oxford and Paris School of Economics, will organize an in-person workshop on Regional Economic Inequalities at the University of Evry - Paris Saclay on 15-16 December 2022.

We hereby invite submissions of papers for presentation at the workshop. We welcome papers on all aspects of regional economic inequalities including, and not limited to, its measurement, its causes, its consequences, single country and cross-country studies, on income and on wealth.

Workshop format
The core group of the project will host this workshop and it will include presentations by
selected participants and invited specialists over two days on 15 and 16 December 2022.
There is no registration fee. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer financial assistance to
participants. Upon acceptance, you will be asked to book your travel and accommodation
independently.

Keynote speakers
December 15: Ana I. Moreno-Monroy (OECD) will talk about “Regional inequalities in OECD countries: trends and measurement challenges”.

December 16: Pierre-Philippe Combes (CNRS, Sciences Po) will talk about his latest works with Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania), Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics) and Clément Gorin (University of Toronto): “Measuring land use changes by (machine) learning from historical maps” and “The emergence, growth, and stagnation of cities: France c. 1760-2020”.

Submission procedure
If you are interested, please send your abstract or preferably your complete paper (in .pdf
format and written in English) to regional.inequality@gmail.com.The deadline for submissions is October 23 2022. Accepted participants will be notified by
November 1 2022.
If you have any further questions about the workshop, please e‐mail Prof. Grégory
Verdugo at gregory.verdugo@univ-evry.fr or Margarita Lopez-Forero at
mariamargarita.lopezforero@univ-evry.fr.

Links
Permanent Linking National and Regional Inequalities webpage:
https://sites.google.com/view/regional-inequality/home

Background
The project Linking National and Regional Inequalities examines trends in geographic income inequality across five high-income countries - Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States - since the 1970s. We have brought together an international expert team of geographers with experience of studying geographic inequality and economists experienced in measuring national income inequality. Our final objective is to use this project as the foundation of a global database that provides information about inequalities between places. Our vision is that this will act as a point of information for researchers to study the causes of geographic income inequality, and for governments to understand how their country compares to others.