Following WEHIA’s recent successful tradition, the 2019 conference will be preceded by a two-days PhD School, which will be held at University College London on June 21-22, just before the beginning of the main conference. The School is aimed at PhD students and young researchers. The theme of...

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 papers by PhD students working in any field of economics using experimental methods to study human decision making.

TOPIC: The emergence of social preferences.

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 workshop is for PhD students and other researchers using lab-in-the field experiments in developing countries, with an interest in, but not limited to, social preferences. Presentations by expert academics with strong field experience discuss the why and how of lab-in-the field experiments,...

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...

This workshop aims to bring together a small group of researchers interested in the determinants and implications of prosocial behaviour. Both theoretical contributions as well as empirical papers using experimental or field data are welcome. The goal is to disseminate recent findings and foster...

The workshop will provide: - Background information on the theoretical basis for, & application of, DCEs. - Hands-on experience in DCE design, and a practical guide to data input, data analysis, and the interpretation of DCE results. - An overview of methodological issues and recent developments...