Fundação Getulio Vargas
Praia de Botafogo 190
Botafogo
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oct 11, 2000

8:30-9:30 Keynote Address: James Heckman, Henry Schultz

Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Director of Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, will present:

"Accounting For Heterogeneity and General Equilibrium In Evaluating Social Programs"

9:30-11:00 The Social Impact of Crime

Chair: Francisco Ferreira

Discussant: Andrew Morrison

François Bourguignon and Andrew Morrison "Measuring the social costs of crime and violence: A methodological primer"

Fabio Sanchez and Jairo Nunez "Crime and income distribution in Colombia: a 20 year history" (project’s initial results)

Renata Villoro and Graciela Teruel "The social cost of crime in Mexico" (project’s initial results)

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-1:00 The Economics of Child Labor

Chair: Arianna Legovini

Discussants: Pierre Couralet, Delta

Sonya Bhalotra "Is Child Labor Necessary?"

*Lopez Calva "A Social Stigma Model of Child Labor"

*J. Gomez de Leon and S. Parker "The impact of anti-poverty programs on children's time use: the case of Progresa in Mexico"

Lopez Calva and Freije "Child Labor and Poverty In Venezuela And Mexico" (project’s initial results)

1:00-2:30 Lunch Break

2:30-4:15 Targeting the Poor and Evaluating Results

Chair/discussant: James Heckman

Discussants: Marcelo Neri

*Gwendolyn Alexander "Microfinance in the 21^st Century: How New Lending Methodologies May Influence Who We Reach and the Impact that We Have on the Poor"

*Ricardo Cossa "Determinants of Schooling Attainment in Argentina: An Empirical Analysis with Extensions to Policy Evaluation"

Mauricio León Guzmán, Wladymir Brborich, Rob Vos "Bono solidario: ¿compensación social o lucha contra la pobreza?" (project’s initial results)

Javier Herrera and Vilma Sandoval "Poverty Dynamics in Peru" (project’s initial results)

*Joseph P. Kaboski "A Theory of Growth and the Returns to Schooling with Rising Educational Attainment"

4:15-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 Roundtable discussion:

The Network on Inequality and Poverty and its Future Research Agenda

Introductory remarks by Nora Lustig and Michael Walton followed by open discussion

Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000
Distributional Implications of Macroeconomic and Trade Policies

Chair: Nora Lustig

*Damien King and Sudhanshu Handa "The Welfare Effects of BoP Reform: A Macro-Micro Simulation with Application to Jamaica"

*Jan Hansen "Is Intra-Industrial Trade to Blame for Rising Inequality?"

Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho and Liliana Mesa González's "Trade Liberalization or SBTC? Evidence on Inequality from Mexico and Brazil" (project’s initial results)

*David Bravo, Dante Contreras, Tomás Rau, and Sergio Urzúa "Income Distribution in Chile 1990-1998: Learning from Microeconomic Simulations"

Discussants: William Maloney

Saturday, October 14, 2000

*Samuel Freije "Income, Positional and Poverty Dynamics in Venezuela" (will speak at a LACEA special sessions on mobility at 1:30 p.m.)

Note: A star indicates papers eligible for the NIP award.