The objective of this workshop is to host presentations and foster interaction between senior and junior researchers working in the area of household finance. The workshop will include state-of-the-art research on household financial behaviour and on how this is influenced by other choices,...

This workshop explores life-course influences on the different aspects of retirement. Example topics are: - how working careers influence retirement age and pensions, - how childhood living conditions influence health and well-being after retirement, - how cumulative (dis)advantages shape social...

In which ways do labour market flexibilisation and subsequent life-course effects challenge pension provision and how do pension systems respond to such challenges? The one-day conference, organized by the Finnish Centre for Pensions, will bring together top researchers and professionals to...

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...

Topics: · fragility concepts and measures · trade and financial shocks · weather and other environmental shocks · state failure and governance in fragile states · household vulnerability and fragile groups · poverty dynamics and economic insecurity · strategies for dealing with economic...