HDRO Conference Room
5 November 2009
Time: 12:30- 2:00 p.m.
Topic
This paper seeks to quantify gender inequality in Chile over a number of dimensions for which there is now information available from a new dataset commissioned by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. The new dataset contains hitherto unavailable data on employment conditions, agency and empowerment, safety and security, shame and humiliation, and life satisfaction and subjective well-being.
About the Speaker
Gaston Yalonetzky has a DPhil in Economics and an MSc in Economics for Development, both from the University of Oxford. His is working as a Researcher for the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Before his graduate studies he worked in the CIUP Research Centre in Lima, Peru. His research interests are in the fields of household economics, inequality of opportunity and economic discrimination, socio-economic mobility, and multidimensional human development.
HDR 2010 seminar series
The event will take place in the HDRO Conference Room, 304 East 45th Street, FF building 12th Floor. For more information, and to organize a building pass, please contact melissa.hernandez@undp.org
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