International Sociological Association (ISA)
2016 Summer Conference, Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28)
Theme: Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Inequality
Date: May 26 - 28, 2016
Venue: National University of Singapore

Program Outline (Updated 0n 18 May 2016)

Thursday May 26th (Day 1)

Time	Details	Venue
08.00 - 09.00	Registration / Coffee and Tea	1st Floor Lobby
09.00 - 09.10 ​	​Welcome Professor Wei-Jun Jean Yeung Director of Centre for Family and Population Research Department of Sociology and Asia Research Institute, NUS	​Auditorium ​
09.10 - 09.55 ​	Opening Speech by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam Guest of Honour​ Singapore Deputy Prime Minister & Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies	​Auditorium
09.55 - 10.20 ​ ​​	​Keynote Speech by Dr Noeleen Heyzer Harnessing Human Potential for a Sustainable, Secure Future of Shared Prosperity NUS Board of Trustees & Former Undersecretary General, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific	​Auditorium ​
​10.20 - 10.40​	Coffee Break	2nd Floor Lobby
10.40 - 12.10 ​ ​ ​	Parallel sessions 1.1 Class and Intergenerational Effects on Schooling I 1.2 Intergenerational Transfer and Mobility 1.3 Temporal and Regional Variations in Families and Households 1.4 Intergenerational Transfer and Eldercare 1.5 Children and Migration 1.6 Intergenerational Effects I - Parents and Child Well-being	SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9   SR 10 SR 11 ​SR 12
12.10 - 13.10 ​	Lunch​ RSSM Editorial Board Meeting	2nd Floor Lobby SR 6
13.10 - 14.40 ​ ​	Parallel sessions 2.1 Class and Intergenerational Effects on Schooling II 2.2 Sources of Inequality and Mobility 2.3 Employment and Career Trajectories 2.4 Family Arrangement in Wealth Earnings 2.5 Gender and Migration 2.6 Intergenerational Effects II - Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantages	SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9   SR 10 SR 11 ​SR 12
14.40 - 15.00	Coffee Break	2nd Floor Lobby
15.00 - 16.30 ​ ​	Parallel sessions 3.1 Class and Intergenerational Effects on Schooling III 3.2 Cultural Capital and Social Inequality 3.3 Labour Market Institutions and Inequality 3.4 Living Arrangements for the Elderly 3.5 Intergenerational Effects III - Educational Attainment of Children 3.6 Urban and Spatial Migration	SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9   SR 10 SR 11 ​SR 12
16.40 - 18.10 ​ ​	Parallel sessions 4.1 Family Structure and Educational Outcome 4.2 Youth Labour Market and Labour Market Entry 4.3 Child Development and Education 4.4 Trends of Population Ageing 4.5 Cohesion Mechanisms within the Family 4.6 Female Labour Participation	​SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9   SR 10 SR 11 ​SR 12

Friday May 27th (Day 2)

Time	Details	Venue
08.00 - 08.30	Coffee and tea	1st Floor Lobby​
08.30 - 10.15 ​ ​ ​	Plenary Session: Human Capital and Intergenerational Mobility Keynote Speakers Wolfgang Lutz: Global Human Capital (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Charles Hirschman: Higher Education and Implications for Intergenerational Mobility in the US (University of Washington) Xie Yu: Trends in Intergenerational Mobility in China (Princeton University) Chair: Robert Hauser (National Research Council and University of Wisconsin-Madison)	Auditorium ​ ​ ​ ​
10.15 - 10.35​	Coffee Break	2nd Floor Lobby​
10.35 - 12.05 ​ ​	​Parallel sessions 5.1 Higher Education 5.2 Women, Fields and Returns of Education 5.3 Social Determinants of Health and Mortality 5.4 Role of the Family 5.5 Education and Migration	SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9   SR 10 SR 12
12.05 - 13.05​ ​	Lunch Break ​RC28 Board Meeting	2nd Floor Lobby​ ​SR 6
13.05 - 14.35 ​	Parallel sessions 6.1 Class, Education and Intergenerational Mobility 6.2 School Effects and Educational Outcomes 6.3 Demographic Differences in Wage and Economic Situations 6.4 Determinants and Effects of Fertility Decisions 6.5 Comparative Inequality in Socioeconomic Status and Well-being	SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9    SR 10 ​SR 12
​14.35 - 14.55	Coffee Break	2nd Floor Lobby
14.55 - 16.25 ​	Parallel sessions 7.1 Determinants of Educational Outcomes 7.2 Gender Differences in Employment and Domestic Labour 7.3 Intergenerationa Dynamics and Well-being 7.4 Social Safety Nets 7.5 Social Integration and Mobility of Immigrants and Minorities	​SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9 SR 10 SR 12
16.25 - 16.40​​	Proceed to assembly area for social activity	​1st Floor Lobby
16.40 - 19.00 ​	Social Activity ​	Asia Civilisations Museum ​Chinatown ​Singapore Botanic Gardens
19.00 - 21.00 ​ ​	Conference dinner (Registered participants only) RC 28 Reports by Prof Xie Yu (RC28 President) and Hiroshi Ishida (RC28 Secretary and Treasurer) ​Presentation of recipients for the Travel Awards	Blue Bali ​ ​

Saturday May 28th (Last day)

Time	Details	Venue
08.00 - 08.30	Coffee and tea	1st Floor Lobby
08.30 - 09.45 ​ ​ ​	Plenary Session: New Data Opportunities in Stratification Research ​ Keynote Speakers: Robert Hauser: The American Opportunity Study (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Meir Yaish: New Data on Intergenerational Mobility in Israel (University of Haifa) Chair: Donald Treiman (University of California, Los Angeles)	Auditorium ​ ​ ​​
09.45 - 10.05	Coffee Break	2nd Floor Lobby​
10.05 - 11.35 ​	Parallel sessions 8.1 Data and Methods I 8.2 Assortative Mating 8.3 Returns of Social Capital and Human Capital 8.4 Socioeconomic Well-being and Migration 8.5 Determinants of Educational Homogamy	​SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9 SR 10 SR 12
11.45 - 13.15 ​ ​	Parallel sessions 9.1 Educational Mobility 9.2 Gender, Marriage and Family Patterns 9.3 Mental Health and Cognition 9.4 Data and Methods II 9.5 The Formation and Dissolution of Marriage	​SR 1-2 SR 3-4 SR 9 SR 10 SR 12
13.15 - 14.15	​Lunch	2nd Floor Lobby
	End of conference Lucky draw for Singapore Favors to take home for registered participants.

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