MONDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2025
11:00 am– 6:20 pm
11:00 – 11:15 am
Welcome Address
Francesco Billari Rector, Bocconi University
Opening of Proceedings
Guido Alfani Director, DONDENA Centre, Bocconi University
SESSION I: From Classical Antiquity to the Eve of the Black Death
11:15 – 11:45 am
Introductory Speech
Mattia Fochesato Bocconi University
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Chair
Guido Alfani Bocconi University
Income Inequality in the Greek and Roman World: Evidence From Land Rents, IV BCE - III AD
Filippo Battistoni University of Pisa
Philipp Erfurth NYU
Marco Martinez University of Pisa
Inequality Emergence in a Feudal Colonization Frontier: Mallorca 1232-1315
Sergio Lozano University of Barcelona
Gabriel Jover University of Girona
Ricardo Soto University of Barcelona
Eric Tello University of Barcelona
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Lunch
SESSION II From the Black Death to the End of the Early Modern Period
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Introductory Speech
Guido Alfani Bocconi University
2:30 – 4:10 pm
Chair
Nicoletta Balbo Bocconi University
Castillian Labour Income in the Long Run: Toledo 1517-1800
Mauricio Drelichman The University of British Columbia
David Gonzalez Agudo University of Valencia
Wage Inequality in Brazil, 1574-1920
Guilherme Lambais Lusíada University of Lisbon
Nuno Palma University of Manchester
Political Inclusion and Inequality in Preindustrial Italian Alps and Appennines (1500-1800)
Benedetta Crivelli University of Parma
Matteo Di Tullio University of Pavia
Giulio Ongaro University of Milan - Bicocca
From Nobility to Notaries: Are Top Earners Descendants of Historical Elites? The Case of the Province of Zaragoza (Spain), 15th-20th Centuries
Francisco J. Marco-Gracia University of Zaragoza
Cristina Rivera-Hernando University of Zaragoza
4:10 – 4:40 pm
Coffee Break
4:40 – 6:20 pm
Chair
Valeria Giacomin Bocconi University
Local Wealth Inequality in Sixteenth-Century Sweden and Finland
Martin Andersson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Kerstin Enflo Lund university
Subjective Inequality in Early Modern Spain
Carlos Alvarez Nogal University Carlos III, Madrid
Leandro Prados de la Escosura University Carlos III, Madrid
New Findings and Questions in Preindustrial Inequality in Latin America
Amílcar Challú Bowling Green State University
María Inés Moraes Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Housing and Urban Wealth Inequality in the Ottoman Empire, 1620-1880
Gürer Karagedikli METU
Coşkun Tunçer UCL
TUESDAY, 7 OCTOBER
8:15 am– 2:30 pm
8:15 am
Welcome Coffee
SESSION III Inequality in the Modern World
8:30 – 9:00 am
Introductory Speech
Branko Milanovic Stone Center, CUNY
9:00 – 11:05 am
Chair
Mattia Fochesato Bocconi University
African Long-Run Inequality Trends: Evidence From Social Tables
Jutta Bolt University of Groeningen
Ellen Hillbom Lund University
How did Inequality Change During the Latin American Industrialization Parenthesis
Luis Bértola Universidad de la Republica - Uruguay
Income Inequality in the Russian Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Anna Arkhina Bocconi University
Guido Alfani Bocconi University
Capital Flows and Wealth Inequality, Brussels, 1810-1937
Nicolas Brenninkmeijer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Wouter Ryckbosch Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Income Inequality in Italy and Its Regions (1871-1991)
Giacomo Gabbuti Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
Edoardo Rappa University of Siena
11:05 – 11:25 am
Coffee Break
11:25 am – 1:30 pm
Chair
Sonia Schifano Bocconi University
Income Inequality and Structural Change in the Netherlands, 1850–1920
Auke Rijpma Utrecht University
Bram van Besouw Utrecht University
Did Classical Capitalism Really Exist? New Evidence from U.S. Income Tax Microdata Before the Second World War
Miguel Artola Blanco University Carlos III, Madrid
Víctor Gomez-Blanco University of Alcala
Glorious for Whom? Income Inequality in the Netherlands During les Trente Glorieuses
Sarah Kuypers University of Antwerp
Inequality, Instability and the Dynamics of Kuznets Waves in Core Capitalist Societies
Javier Rodriguez Weber Universidad de la Republica-Montevideo
Wealth Accumulation and Inequality in East Asia, 1900–2020: New Evidence from China, Korea, and Japan
Zhexun Mo Stone Center CUNY
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Lunch
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