The workshop will consist of specially invited papers as well as contributed papers that provide insights into the field of family economics using empirical methods. Our aim is that the research presented will be analyzing important empirical relationships relevant for family economics.

We invite papers and special sessions that address (but are not limited to) the following themes: - Methodological innovation in interpretive consumer research (e.g. new modes of representation); - New or reassessment of existing philosophical approaches to understanding consumption; - The...

Submitted papers should address at least one of the following questions: a) with respect to measurement: • How to measure the freedom/responsibility elements of opportunity? • How to take into account adaptive preferences? • How to measure the object of opportunity element: the "what"...