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 (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 and IZA)
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		Anthony B. 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 and IZA)
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 and IZA), Michael Nolan (University of Hull)
				"Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being"
10:30	-	11:00		Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich and IZA)
				"Conspicuous Consumption and Happiness"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Keynote Address II
				Chair: Alois Stutzer (University of Basel and IZA)
11:30	-	12:20		Andrew J. Oswald (University of Warwick and IZA)
				"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 and IZA), 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 and IZA)
				"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 and IZA), 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)