Decades of twin studies have established that any conceivable human trait has a heritable component, including biologically distal traits such as personality traits, educational attainment, and income. This insight, combined with a rapid increase in the availability of genetic data, has paved...

Due to the COVID19 outbreak, the 2020 physical meeting of the ECSR has been cancelled. Given the importance of conferences for early career researchers, we are organizing a one day ECSR online conference on 2 July. On this day, the ECRs who were accepted for an oral presentation at the regular...

EPC 2022 Themes: Fertility; Families and Households; Life Course; Ageing and Intergenerational Relations; Internal Migration and Urbanization; International Migration; Migrant Populations; Health, Wellbeing and Morbidity; Mortality and Longevity; Historical Demography; Data and Methods;...

The field of Artificial intelligence and machine learning has entered the world of economics, finance and central banks. Massive amounts of data are collected by central banks and supervisors world-wide nowadays. These amounts lead to new challenges. How to analyze these massive amounts? Which...

This course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed on electricity market design. The goal is to offer some economic tools and simulation models using elements of game theory, auction theory, and industrial organization that will allow...

Conference theme: Accelerating Transitions in Ports and Shipping. This theme mirrors the context in which ports and shipping are developing: a context of major and fast-developing external trends asking for major transitions. Innovations, good research, and development of new grounded insights...

Netspar stimulates innovative academic research in all disciplines in the social sciences related to aging and retirement. For the Netspar International Pension Workshop Netspar invites contributions from all areas of Netspar’s research program. Topics of interest related to aging and...

The Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research IECER is an annual international conference on entrepreneurship topics attracting scholars and delegates from academia, business and government officials from around the world.

Datafication has massively influenced processes within organizations, on markets, and more generally throughout society. Machine learning pushes the loop between data accumulation and innovation even further. Topics: - Which parts of the political opinion formation process and what types of...

Netspar stimulates innovative academic research in all disciplines in the social sciences related to aging and retirement. Topics of interest related to aging and retirement are: - Wellbeing and Welfare of Older People, - Communication and choice, - Work, Retirement, Housing, and Healthcare, -...