Fifth CISEPS Annual Workshop

Fifth CISEPS Annual Workshop 2026
Economic inequality, political inclusion, and
public finance

April 16th-17th, 2026
University of Milano-Bicocca
Building U6, rooms 01-A, 01-B

PROGRAM
16th April

2:00 pm

Welcome and introduction

2:30 pm

Session 1 (Room 01-A) – Inequality in Living Conditions: Housing, Energy, and Urban Segregation

Aliffi, G., & Michelangeli, A. “When Home Becomes the Workplace: Housing Conditions and Health Inequality During the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Bosco, M. G. “The energy transition: is decarbonization driving a redistribution of resources?”

Dutt, S. “Legal Segregation, Ethno-Religious Boundaries, and Urban Inequality in India’s Disturbed Areas Act”

Pare Ogg, C. “The Wealth of Inclusion: Juridical Foundations, Marriage Equality, and the Accumulation of Housing Assets”

Session 2 (Room 01-B) – Determinants and dynamics of inequality in preindustrial period

Arkhina, A. & Alfani, G. “Income Inequality in Imperial Russia on the Eve of the Great Reforms”

Ciriacono, S. “Socio-economic inequalities, concentration of wealth, and the role within institutions in eighteenth-century Venice. The case of the Vendramin family”

Di Tullio, M., Fiore Melacrinis, F. M. S., Motta, M., Ongaro, G., Scuro, R. & Somigli Russotto, T. “Institutional inclusiveness and economic inequality in the Venetian Lombardy (1500-1800)” Korchmina, E. “Women of Property: Russia’s Forgotten Economic Revolution, 1720s-1850s.”

4.30 pm

Coffee break

5:00 pm

Keynote Speech (Room 01-A): Guido Alfani (Bocconi University), Economic inequality, political openness and ‘meritocracy’: a historical perspective

6.45 pm

Cocktail dinner

17th April

9:30 am

Session 3 (Room 01-A)– Inequality and Institutions: Education, Labour, and Policy

Martelli, S. & Saraceno, M. “Inequality in Education: Evidence from Italy”

Migheli, M. “Gender Equality and Labour Market Liberalisation: Empirical Evidence from the E.U.”

Maiorino, S., Michelangeli, A. & Satya Pakerti, I. “Unequal working conditions in Europe: a multidimensional analysis”

Massiani, J. & Ponti, M. “Does socio economic evaluation produce anti redistributive outcomes ? and what should we do about it?”

Session 4 (Room 01-B) – Determinants and dynamics of inequality in modern and contemporary societies

Fawcett, C. “Foreign Investment, Inequality, and the Kuznets Curve: A Sectoral and Historical Analysis of FDI in Francophone Africa (1990–2022)”

Bertinelli, L., Gatti, F. & Strobl, E. “Colonial Governance and Resource Allocation in the British West Indies (1838–1938)”

Coviello, R. & Torregrosa-Hetland, S. “Redistributive Effects of Personal Income Tax in Argentina’s State-Led Industrialization Era (1932-1974)”

Bozzi, P. “How To Raise Taxes And Win The Election. Political Competition And

The Introduction Of Modern Income Tax In Italy 1960-1990.”

11.30 am

Coffee break

12:00 am

Session 5 (Room 01-A) – Reconfiguring Inequality: Institutions, Boundaries, and Social Change

Rösler, D. “Does Wealth Inequality Undermine Trust? Evidence From Crossnational

Longitudinal Data”

Sychowiec, M. “The Impact of Affective Polarization on Redistributive Preferences: Evidence of a Winner–Loser Gap from Cross-National Surveys”

Myftiu, J. & Scalise, G. “Mapping Urban Social Investment: A Composite Indicators Approach for the Municipalities of Milan”

Jagódka, M. “Redistributive Policies And Pension Systems As Instruments For Reducing Inequality”

1:45 pm

Conclusion

Scientific committee: Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Matteo Di Tullio, Alessandra Michelangeli, Giulio Ongaro, Lorenzo Passerini Glazel

Info
ciseps@unimib.it
giulio.ongaro@unimib.it

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RXd9osEWhVlefIJ2tAw3PyBLY4SOhifw/view

Event organized under the CARIPLO project ““Taxation, Public expenditure, and Economic inequality in preindustrial Venetian Lombardy (1400-1800)” – CUP H45E23001250007