ABOUT
The Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course (DIAL) research programme’s mid-term conference will be held on 6–8 June 2019 at the University of Turku, Finland. The DIAL programme is focused on understanding the dynamics of inequalities as they unfold over the life course, causal processes and drivers in relation to these inequalities, and the impact of these inequalities on social cohesion.
In particular, the programme is structured around four themes that reflect transitions and trajectories at key stages of the life course: (1) early life influences and outcomes; (2) early adult transitions into tertiary education, vocational training and economic activity; (3) labour market and family trajectories and the growth of inequality; and (4) labour market participation in later life and retirement. An emphasis is placed on examining inequality from a number of different dimensions, including education, employment, income, housing, living standards, health and wellbeing.
The organizing committee welcomes submissions that address the themes of the research programme from both researchers working in DIAL projects as well as other scholars working on these topics.
Important dates
Call for Papers Opens: December 3rd, 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25th, 2019
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 8th, 2019
Registration Deadline: April 5th, 2019
Stakeholder registration deadline: May 5th, 2019
Final Abstract Submission Deadline: May 22nd, 2019
Conference Dates: June 6th-8th, 2019
Keynote speakers
Karl Ulrich Mayer: The Contribution of Life Course Research to the Study of Inequality – More Questions than Answers? (TBC)
Jo Blanden: New Dimensions of Intergenerational Economic Mobility
Florencia Torche: The Effects of Early-life Exposures on Health, Cognitive, and Educational Outcomes over the Life Course
Karl Ulrich Mayer completed his Doctoral degree from the University of Constance (1973). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2013 by the University of Rostock. Mayer’s main areas of research are social stratification and mobility, sociology of the life-course, comparative analysis of social structures and structures and processes of the labor market.
To name a few of Mayer’s many positions, Karl Ulrich Mayer is Founding Editor of the European Sociological Review. In 2003 he was appointed Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA, where he became the Founding Director of the Center for Research on Social Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) and chaired the Department of Sociology from 2005 to 2010 and now is Stanley B. Resor Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Yale University, USA.
Jo Blanden is a lecturer in School of Economics, University of Surrey. Over the years 2000-2005 she was full-time researcher in the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and completed her PhD at UCL over this time. She joined the Department of Economics at Surrey in October 2005 and is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE.
Blanden’s research interests lie broadly in the fields of labour and family economics. Her PhD was on the topic of intergenerational income mobility. Blanden is currently studying the impact of nursery attendance on children’s outcomes.
Florencia Torche holds a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University. She’s professor in Standford University. Torche’s scholarship encompasses two related areas. A longer-term area of research studies inequality dynamics with a particular focus on educational attainment, assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of wealth. A more recent area of research examines the influence of early-life exposures on individual development, attainment, and socioeconomic wellbeing.
Torche’s research combines diverse methodological approaches including quantitative analysis, causal inference, experiments and natural experiments, and in-depth interviews. Much of her research uses an international comparative perspective.
Chair of organizing committee
Dr. Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
Scientific organizing committee
- Dr. Asteria Brylka, University of Warwick, PremLife
- Prof. Aline Bütikofer, Norwegian School of Economics, GUODLCCI
- Dr. Monica Costa Dias, Institute for Fiscal Studies, HuCIAW
- Prof. Jani Erola, University of Turku, LIFE-TRACK and EQUALLIVES
- Prof. Nicky Le Feuvre, University of Lausanne, DAISIE
- Prof. Alexander Ludwig, Goethe University Frankfurt, TRISP
- Prof. Andreas Peichl, ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys, IMCHILD
- Dr. Manon van Scheppingen, University of Amsterdam, CRITEVENTS
- Prof. David Soskice, London School of Economics, PII
- Nathalie Tamayo-Martinez, Erasmus MC, SEED
- Prof. Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde, CILIA-LGBTQI+
- Dr. Adele Wang, University of Bristol, GEIGHEI
Local organizing committee
- Prof. Jani Erola
- Laura Heiskala
- Dr. Aleksi Karhula
- Heta Pöyliö
- Laura Sistonen
- Minna Tuominen