XXXV ASEPELT International Congress
June 29 to July 2, 2022
Organizer: Department of Applied, Public and Political Economics. School of Statistical Studies - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Important dates:
- Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 15, 2022
- Acceptance Notice: March 20, 2022
More information: https://www.congresoasepelt.com/
Funcas. 'Oportunidades y desafíos de la economía española tras la pandemia'
18:30 h PRESENTATION
- Carlos Ocaña, General Director of Funcas
OPENING
- Nadia Calviño, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation
19:00 h ROUND TABLE ON THE BOOK LABERINTOS DE LA PROSPERIDAD (The Labyrinths of Prosperity)
- Xosé Carlos Arias, Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Vigo
- Antón Costas, President of the Economic and Social Council
Moderator
- Eduardo Bandrés, Funcas and University of Zaragoza
JRC B2 Seminar. 'Using Capital income to Proxy Family Background: An application to inequality of opportunity', Hugo del Valle-Inclán (JRC-Sevilla)
The measurement of opportunity inequality has attracted increasing attention in recent years, despite the fact that its empirical application suffers from stringent data limitations. In this paper we address one of these problems: the scarcity of data on family background. We propose to use a widely available variable as alternative proxy of socioeconomic origin, instead of the traditional and sparse proxies commonly employed. This alternative proxy is capital income. Using data of 31 European countries we first successfully test the accuracy of our approach, and then we apply it to obtain many new inequality of opportunity estimates. These results are useful for the measurement of inequality of opportunity, but also in other areas of research where we want to account for family background.
