This workshop will be framed around how we should fundamentally understand welfare theory, in the wake of findings from behavioural and experimental microeconomics, as an enterprise intended to be relevant to policy and mechanism design. It is structured so as to have three elements in...

We welcome empirical papers about any aspect of inequality in economic outcomes (household income, consumption, wealth, earnings, employment) in developed societies, and papers that assess how welfare states are responding, or might respond.

The ESRC and British Academy (BA) are co-hosting a unique scoping workshop designed to explore issues around sustainable prosperity. This interactive event aims to bring a diverse range of people and perspectives together to discuss novel ideas and fresh approaches to the issue of building an...

This doctoral workshop invites papers dealing theoretically, conceptually and empirically with such pressures and with the ever shifting boundary between the public and the private in contemporary European societies. Papers might explore questions such as: - Business and welfare - State...

The objective of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring experts from different social sciences and policy backgrounds to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of this second approach to poverty persistence.