Joint Workshop FORS, University of Lausanne and IDSC of IZA on Redistribution and Well-Being

Thursday, March 17:

19:00				Welcome Cocktail at Restaurant "Bistro 31", Starling Hotel

Friday, March 18:

08:30	-	09:00		Registration
09:00	-	09:10		Welcoming Remarks by Nikos Askitas (Director of IDSC of IZA) and Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne and IZA)
				Session A: The SHP and Job Loss and Well-being in Switzerland
				Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
09:10	-	09:40		Oliver Lipps (Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS))
				"The Swiss Household Panel and its experimental Design to study Interviewer and Respondent Data Quality Effects"
09:40	-	10:10		Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA)
				"The Effect of Unemployment on Life and Satisfaction - An Analysis for Switzerland in its Cultural Diversity"
10:10	-	10:40		Daniel Oesch (University of Lausanne), Oliver Lipps (Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS))
				"Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland"
10:40	-	11:10		Coffee Break
				Session B: Income and Happiness
				Chair: Oliver Lipps (Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS))
11:10	-	11:40		Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch (University of Bonn), Thomas Deckers (University of Bonn), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"Nominal Versus Real Income: The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Happiness"
11:40	-	12:10		Penka Kovacheva (Princeton University), Xiaotong Niu (Princeton University)
				"The Mental Cost of Pension Loss: The Experience of Russia's Pensioners during Transition"
12:10	-	12:40		Daniel J. Benjamin (Cornell University), Ori Heffetz (Cornell University), Miles Kimball (University of Michigan), Alex Rees-Jones (Cornell University)
				"Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys"
12:40	-	14:00		Lunch at "Restaurant de Dorigny, Unithèque" (for presenters and organizers)
				Session C: Well-being and Public Policy
				Chair: Alois Stutzer (University of Basel)
14:00	-	14:30		Simon Chapple (OECD), Anna D'Addio (OECD), Andreas Hoherz (OECD)
				"Does Taking Birth-related Leave Increase Life Satisfaction of German Parents?"
14:30	-	15:00		Hans Grönqvist (SOFI, Stockholm University), Per Johansson (IFAU, Uppsala University), Susan Niknami (SOFI, Stockholm University)
				"Income Inequality, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Settlement Policy"
15:00	-	15:30		Reto Odermatt (University of Basel), Alois Stutzer (University of Basel and IZA)
				"Smoking Bans and Life Satisfaction in Europe"
15:30	-	16:00		Coffee Break
16:00	-	16:10		Welcoming Remarks by Peter Farago (Director of Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS))
				Keynote Address I
				Chair: Peter Farago (Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS))
16:10	-	17:00		Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford)
				"Inequality and Banking Crises: A First Look"
19:00				Dinner at Restaurant "Bistro 31", Starling Hotel

Saturday, March 19:

				Session D: Relative Income
				Chair: Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne)
09:30	-	10:00		Adrian De la Garza (Banco de México), Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Atsushi Sannabe (Oxford University), Katsunori Yamada (Osaka University)
				"The Relative Utility Hypothesis With and Without Self-reported Reference Wages"
10:00	-	10:30		Felix FitzRoy (University of St. Andrews), Michael Nolan (University of Hull)
				"Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being"
10:30	-	11:00		Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich)
				"Conspicuous Consumption and Happiness"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Keynote Address II
				Chair: Alois Stutzer (University of Basel)
11:30	-	12:20		Andrew J. Oswald (University of Warwick)
				"Inequality and Human Imitation"
12:20	-	13:20		Buffet Lunch at "Cafeteria Amphimax"
				Session E: Macroeconomics of Redistribution and Well-being
				Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
13:20	-	13:50		Paolo Naticchioni (University of Cassino), Leonardo Becchetti (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Riccardo Massari (Sapienza University of Rome)
				"Why has Happiness Inequality Increased? Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion"
13:50	-	14:20		Andreas Kuhn (University of Zurich)
				"The Demand for and Supply of Redistribution: The Association of Inequality Perceptions, Social Norms and Redistributive Preferences with the Effective Level of Inequality and Redistribution"
14:20	-	14:50		Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne), Alois Stutzer (University of Basel and IZA)
				"Economic Shocks, Labor Market Institutions, and Workers' Well-being"
14:50	-	15:00		Closing Remarks and Goodbye Alois Stutzer (University of Basel and IZA)