In light of COVID-19, GEM20 will be fully remote for the week of September 21-25, 2020. The Global Empowerment Meeting (GEM) is the Center for International Development's (CID) premier event featuring cutting-edge research and initiatives in global development. The topic of GEM20 is...

Cancelled: 2020 SIEPR Economic Summit Stanford University is closely monitoring the status of COVID-19, also called novel coronavirus, with the health and well-being of our community firmly in mind. The university has strongly encouraged the cancellation or postponement of large events scheduled...

The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) invites members to submit panel proposals, session proposals, and individual paper submissions on any area of feminist inquiry into economic issues, including: - Gender and macroeconomics - Feminist approaches to institutional...

ACES Sessions: - The Demand for the State: Evidence from Past and Present; - Social Capital and Banking Crises; - Skills in College: Cross-National Evidence from China, India, Russia, and the United States; - The Institutional Basis of China's Growth and Social Development; - From Culture to...

The goal of the symposium is to facilitate discussion of recent research on consumers' capabilities, knowledge, preferences, and experiences in the market for financial products and services, as well as the effects of public policy interventions and new regulations on consumers, households,...

First Day: Session I - The Role of Annuitization Wealth in Post-Retirement Behavior; Session II - Pathways to Retirement including an examination of the role of self-employment; Session III - Life Expectancy, Income and Geography; Session V - The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Older...

Our sessions at this conference seek, in particular, empirical papers dealing with Issues on Africa Economic Development, especially in the areas of: 1. Income Inequality, Poverty and Inclusive Growth 2. The Labour Market and Rural-Migration 3. Any area of Health Economics 4. Environment and...

The theme of the conference is "Analytical Foundations for Cooperation in a Multipolar World". Subthemes: - Perspectives and policies for sustainable, inclusive growth - Poverty and inequality in a rapidly changing world - Sustainable development for the 21st Century - Structural transformation...

Topics: - Visions of societies where the economy and culture are not principally built on mass consumption - Insights into the obstacles to a transition beyond consumerist societies - Strategies for successful transitions - Theories of social change - Thematic domains of consumption - Pollution...

The conference welcomes proposals for sessions and presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following themes: - The mosaic of class, race, and gender - Class, power, and social structure - Class in an age of income inequality - Class, Community, and the Environment - Class in a...