Collaborative Workshop on Socioeconomic Inequality

Welcome address from the organizing committee.

Keynote Speaker

Illenin O. Kondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 

Talk Title

A More Equal Union? Exploring Granular Income Inequality and Mobility by Place, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity using IDDA.

Abstract

Shifting earnings inequality among U.S. workers over the last five decades has been widely studied, but understanding how these shifts evolve across smaller groups has been difficult. Publicly available data sources typically only ensure representative data at high levels of aggregation, so they obscure many details of earnings and income distributions for smaller populations. We define and construct a set of granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility and conditional income growth for a large number of subnational demographic groups in the U.S. for a two-decade period (1998-2019). The full set of statistics that we construct is available publicly as the Income Distributions and Dynamics in America, or IDDA, dataset. We use the resulting data to explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility for detailed groups defined by place, gender, race, and ethnicity. We find that patterns identified from the universe of tax filers and W-2 recipients that we observe differ in important ways from those that one might identify in public sources.

Speaker Bio

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Keynote Speaker

Bianet Castellanos, U of M Department of American Studies, Institute for Advanced Study 

Talk Title

Housing Justice: Reflections on Indigenous Organizing, Scaling Up, and the Ethics of Data Collection.

Abstract

To be announced

Speaker Bio

Bianet Castellanos is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of American Studies and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. She has spent three decades working with Maya communities in Mexico and California. Her publications include Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico (Stanford UP 2021) and A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (UMN Press 2010), along with the anthologies Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South (U Arizona Press 2019) and Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach (U Arizona Press 2012).

Take a stretch break and use the opportunity to talk with colleagues about morning keynotes and related topics.

• Fatih Guvenen, Economics
  "An Overview of GRID: A New International Database of Inequality Statistics."
• Claire Kamp Dush, Sociology
  "A Brief Overview of the IPUMS Contextual Determinants of Health Database."
• Benjamin Toff, Journalism and Mass Communication
  "Mapping Minnesota's Local News and Information Ecosystem."
• Aldo Rustichini, Economics
  "A GWAS of Political Participation and Party Affiliation."
• Ellen Messer-Davidow, English
  "Meanings, Metrics, and Other Muddles: The Supreme Court Opinions on the SFFA Cases."
• Kazeem Adepoju, Statistics
  "An Improved Generalized Probability Distribution for Estimation of  Income Related Measures of Inequality."
• Rebekah Nagler, Journalism and Mass Communication
  "U.S. Public Perceptions of Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality."
• Michael Gallope, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
  "Inequality in the Music Industry."
   

Galin Jones, Chair of CLA's Data Science Initiative, and Hayley Borck, Managing Director of the UMN Data Science Initiative, will share information about seed grant opportunities. 

Attendees will be encouraged to discuss topics from the morning presentation over lunch. Tables will be arranged into topic areas. 

Event organizers share conclusions and any follow-up opportunities.