This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

Potential topics and research questions include but are not limited to: - What are the conceptual commonalities and differences of the sustainability and BHR framing? - What are novel business practices and instruments to manage the human rights dimension of sustainability? - How does a human...

The two-day workshop seeks to bring together researchers who apply machine learning methods in the following fields: - Labor economics - Economics of education - Health economics

The conference aims to explore whether the influence of private funding changes the selection of research topics in an epistemically or otherwise (un-)desirable direction, whether it leads to a privatization of knowledge, and what the consequences of such a privatization would entail.

Empirical research in economics typically focuses on the unbiased estimation of causal effects. In contrast, statistics and computer science place more value on prediction (especially out-of-sample) and data-driven selection of models and variables. So far, only few studies apply these methods...

The workshop aims to bring together researchers who apply econometric methods to answer questions in health economics. We are open to recent methods from the program evaluation literature as well as to classical health econometrics (like models for unordered, ordered, or count data). We also...

“Theories and Methods in Macroeconomics” (T2M) is a network dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of macroeconomic research. For the T2M 2019 conference, the program committee has selected special sessions organized by leading researchers in these fields: “Expectations in...

The two-day conference seeks to bring together experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental empirical research on gender issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Gender gaps in educational choices and outcomes, - Family (formation), child care, and the gender gap in...

Papers can be on any topic in Economics, Finance or Management Science as related to risk and insurance.

In the context of the current research project “Equal Living Conditions” of FAU (Nürnberg) and Philipps-Universität (Marburg), the conference aims to foster the scientific exchange on the perception, patterns, causes, effects and policy aspects of regional inequality, also across...