Etienne Lwamba (3ie) and Angela Heucher (DEval) The Digital Development Dialogue (3D) seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a...

Conference topics: This year’s Historical Materialism online conference seeks proposals for papers and panels on the following area: - the impact of the pandemic on the right to protest; - the rise of social movements against the state and state institutions; - the relation between the...

Topics : - Gender norms, institutions and labour market outcomes; - Family formation and dynamics; - Female labour force participation; - Women's economic, social, and political empowerment. Due to the current situation, the conference is designed exclusively as an online workshop, taking place...

The conference will be held both in person and online. Sessions will focus primarily on issues encountered by under-represented groups in economics, finance and central banking. We invite papers drawn from a variety of methods, perspectives, and disciplines and especially encourage submissions...

The submission of papers in the following areas is particularly encouraged: - Conditions and effects of green growth vs. de-growth, capitalism without growth; - Globalisation and impact of catching up of the global South; - Macroeconomic modelling and empirics of socio-ecological transition; -...

Topics: - Changes in the demand for long-term care; - Healthcare expenditures associated with long-term care; - Funding systems (including international comparisons); - The consequences of informal care on caregivers (e.g., health and employment); - Policies to cope with the increasing demand for...

Although information on individuals has never been so abundant, particularly through administrative databases (registers, censuses, surveys) or private databases (tracking of individuals on the internet or by telephone networks), many populations are partially, or sometimes completely,...

Capitalism, historically, has been driven by prospects of economic growth and profit maximization on a global scale. However, under current economic conditions the tortured eking out of profits and economic growth has led to a situation where what economic growth is to be had exacerbates the...

Topics: - Explanations for Spending at Older Ages; - The Impact of Covid-10 on Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers; - Has the COVID pandemic changed retirement plans?; - Factors Influencing the Choice of Pension Distributions at Retirement; - Wealth Inequality and Retirement...

The seminar is open to contributions in the fi eld of the economics, sociology and demography of pensions and ageing, covering the following themes: - the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the various aspects of pensions and ageing; - economic and demographic cycles, public transfers and...