The aim of this workshop is to bring historians, social scientists and health professionals together to discuss these emerging trends. What’s new about this recent articulation of wellbeing and happiness, if anything at all, and why now? We hope that these openly formulated questions may...

The insights of behavioural economics have begun to be applied to development economics and in particular to the behaviour of poor households in poor economies. Does poverty promote departures from the standard text book model of rational choice? Do such departures in turn promote poverty and...

Turku Center for Welfare Research (TCWR) organizes workshop and seminar on the new endeavors and common problems in life course research, with a special emphasis on the register data applications. The three day workshop is targeted to PhD students and researchers. It consists of lectures and...

Topics: - Health and time use - Parenting and child care - Time poverty - GPS and Tracking - Eating and health - Children's time use - Surveys in Developing Countries - Leisure - Well-being of carers - Travel - Location and Travel - Gendered time use - Health in rural environments - Household...

Abstracts on any topic relating to child indicators would be welcomed. Papers with a comparative content are encouraged. Methodological papers would be received with pleasure. We hope to organise themed parallel sessions on the following subjects during the conference: - National and...

Conference Themes: - Active citizenship - Care: ideas, practices and policies - Flexibility, security and restructuring the life course - Climate change, communities and sustainable work - Work, family and life integration - Globalization, insecurity and localities - Diversity of families -...