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...

Aufgrund der aktuellen Ausbreitung des neuartigen Coronavirus hat das IZA alle für März und April 2020 geplanten internationalen Veranstaltungen abgesagt. Due to the current spread of the novel corona virus, the IZA has canceled all international events planned for March and April 2020.

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...

Research about the causes and implications of inequality is ongoing, and this workshop aims at both providing some answers and promote further efforts. Understanding the roots of inequality is an important issue, and the first step to designing measures aimed at promoting equality of opportunity.

The conference aims to understand the changing responsibilities of public and private actors in the control of work-related risks. During the last few decades government-centred welfare models are increasingly complemented or supplanted by novel constellations, which redefine government...

Theme: The Human Digital Challenge. Target Group: This event is aimed at MBA Directors and business school staff involved in part-time, full-time and executive MBA programmes. Topics: - Skills: the entrepreneur’s perspective; - Data from the Corporate Recruiters Survey; - Best Practice Panel:...

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, -...

This series of workshops provides a forum for the development and dissemination of applications of econometrics and other quantitative approaches in health economics.

Tinbergen Institute organizes an exciting interdisciplinary summer school entitled: ‘Introduction in Genome-Wide Data Analysis’. The summer school is taught by Philipp Koellinger and Niels Rietveld, two leading experts in the field. The summer school welcomes (research) master students, PhD...