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Monsoon School on Inequality 2025

The Monsoon School on Inequality, set to be one of the highlight events of the Inequality Working Group (IWG) of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) for 2025, is a gathering designed to address discussions and research on socio-economic and educational disparities in India through a series of engaging and insightful activities.

Jul 24–26, 2025 | 8:00 – 17:00 Download .ics

| Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

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Regional Convening

The focus of this year’s monsoon school is on pluralistic approaches to research on inequality, bringing together perspectives from varied streams of economic thought. It will provide an interactive platform for advanced-level PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars affiliated with Indian research institutes to engage with diverse concepts, debates, and methodologies related to inequality.

Themes and Sessions

Major themes covered, but not limited to:

1. Economic Inequality and its measures

  • Income and wealth disparities.
  • Labor market inequality and wage gaps.
  • Diverse measures to estimate inequality: Data Sources and Indices
  • Measures of intergroup and intragroup inequality.
  • Linkages between governance, institutions, and economic inequality.

2. Social Mobility and equal opportunities

  • Disparities in access to education and healthcare.
  • Inequality of opportunity and its economic impact.
  • Social determinants of health and educational inequality.
  • Social mobility and intergenerational inequality.
  • Affirmative action and its impact on intergenerational mobility.
  • Social mobility across caste, gender, and religion.

3. Environment, Climate Change and Inequality

  • Distributional impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups.
  • Energy markets, carbon pricing, and taxation.
  • Inequality in contributions to and consequences of environmental degradation.
  • Financing climate adaptation and inequality.

4. Economic Growth, Government Policy and Inequality

  • Taxation, redistribution, and fiscal policies addressing inequality.
  • Trade, investment, and their implications for inequality and poverty.
  • Role of global supply chains in wage disparities.
  • Structural change and unequal effects in development.
  • Migration and its effect on sending and receiving economies.

Additional Activities:

  1. Mentorship Session: Young scholars will have the opportunity to present their research with allocated mentoring groups.
  2. YSI Session: An introduction to the activities and opportunities provided by the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI).

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