Events

European Investment Bank (EIB), Luxembourg
01 February 2018 - 13:00

Inequality and Genes

Lecture series : Inequality and … ?

LISER together with many partners in Luxembourg co-organizes the following lecture.

Inequality in economic outcomes partly reflects genetic variation: there is considerable evidence that economic outcomes are strongly positively correlated within families. However, the strength of these correlations varies across both time and space, suggesting that other forces are also at play. This leads to more complex models of family assocations in economic outcomes. The policy implications of different views of the relationship between economic inequality and genes are discussed. While doubt can be cast on the view that inequality is mostly genetic, the implications for, e.g., policies to reduce inequality are widely misunderstood.

Speaker

Prof. Markus Jäntti (Stockholm University)

Registration

The lecture is free and requires registration at http://bit.ly/EIBI_events

Venue

European Investment Bank (EIB)
98-100 Boulevard Konrad Adenauer, Luxembourg

A shuttle bus will pick you up at 11:50 from Belval Campus - 11 Porte des Sciences to EIB and return (after the conference - 14:15)

Contact

inequality@uni.lu