This conference aims to improve our understanding how genetic endowments and childhood circumstances shape life choices, health, and socio-economic outcomes across the life-course of individuals. Furthermore, we want to discuss the scope for public policy to level the playing field. We encourage...

We invite papers by authors working in different academic fields and covering different aspects of well-being. Papers addressing inequality in well-being by gender are particularly welcome. The workshop will combine full-length seminar-style contributions of approximately 30 minutes with shorter...

The impact of a disaster on a country or a community is often measured using one aggregate metric: the total cost of the physical damages. While relevant to estimate financial needs for the reconstruction, this single number hardly represents the impact on the poorest people and households, who...

The I.S.E.O. Summer School is reserved to graduate students (Masters and PhD) notably in Economics and in Finance, teaching assistants, researchers and young professionals. The upcoming edition – entitled “The post pandemic world economy” – will investigate some of the biggest issues...

This workshop will focus on a number of broad guiding questions: - What does the most recent evidence tell us about the joint environmental, economic and social impacts of environmental policies? - What types of policies are more effective? - What is the role of innovation in delivering...

Climate change is a long term threat to human societies with expected huge impacts on health, economies and welfare. Somehow similar to a pandemic, but with more persistent and irreversible consequences. Even more than the fight against Covid-19, climate change control is a difficult and complex...

RC28 general objectives are to promote high quality research on social stratification and social mobility, and the international exchange of scientific information in this field. We aim to organise the meeting in hybrid model, where participation in both online and in person are possible. We...

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working with children and youth in out-of -home care. The conference will be held at University of Copenhagen and is part of the research program on “Effective interventions for children in out-of -home care: Explaining the impact of...

Paper submissions are invited in the fields of law, economics, political science or other disciplines that are related to the conference topic.

Die sozialwissenschaftliche Promotionswerkstatt Rhein-Ruhr richtet sich an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen sowie angrenzenden Fächern, die an einer Dissertation mit Bezug zu mindestens einem der folgenden Themenfelder arbeiten: Arbeit, Arbeitsmarkt,...