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;...

An in-person conference, with hybrid access. The current pandemic has brought attention to the need for international cooperation to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic and produce an inclusive recovery. The far-reaching consequences of COVID-19 on local, national, and global economies have...

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...

Family structures in all industrial and post-industrial societies are changing rapidly, as is the economic security that is granted or can be granted within families. Social security systems are challenged to react to these changes, for they shape current developments and also set the course for...

The conference theme is: Inequality over the life course. We also welcome submissions on all relevant areas of sociological research, notably the labour market, education, gender, the family, migration and ethnicity, urban and spatial inequalities, political sociology, health and well-being,...

Universal Child Grants (UCG) are increasingly discussed as a policy instrument to achieve universal social protection and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference organisers invite research paper proposals based on evidence from the implementation of cash transfers...

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, -...

Key themes of Longevity 14 will be demographic risks and intergenerational risk sharing, sustainability of pension systems, practical applications of state of the art longevity research, mortality trends and forecasts, experience mortality and solidarity, global product trends, including the...