The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers in household economics. We define household economics as the economic analysis of household decisions, including decisions regarding consumption, labor supply and other uses of time, household formation and dissolution, demand for health...

Topics: Asset returns and spending; Spending effects of unemployment events; Welfare consequences of social insurance programs; The impact of mortgage refinancing on spending; Validation of new spending measures; Consumption inequality; Spending effects of public policies; Insurance within the...

The 35th General Conference is primarily organized around the following theme sessions: - Globalization and Inclusive Growth - Skills, Employment and Productivity – Measurement Analysis. - Measuring Capital and Wealth - Human Capital and Innovation - Is Productivity Growth Slowing Down? - The...

Topics: Emergence of post-consumerist lifestyles; Impact of the decline in wage labor on consumption practices; Role of behavioral economics and related strategies on consumption routines; Social practices research related to sustainable consumption; Sustainability and the transformation of...

Themes: - Psychology and Well-being (Cultural perspectives of well-being; Antecedents and indicators of well-being; Measurement of well-being; Positive and negative emotions; Positive psychology interventions; Flourishing), - Communication and Well-being (Cyberwellness; Media and society; Health...

The theme for the ESPAnet 2015 conference is “The lost and new worlds of welfare”. The conference invites proposals for streams and papers that address issues across the full range of comparative welfare state research, from various disciplinary perspectives. Suggestions for Stream Themes -...

Course Description: Changes in risky healthy behaviors such as smoking, alcohol use, and overeating can explain a great deal of the changes in life expectancy worldwide. This PhD course reviews recent research on the causes (e.g., public policies, education shocks, early life interventions,...

The conference theme of 2015 is: "The Next 10 Years: Trends in Neuromarketing, Neuroeconomics, Neurofinance, and Related Disciplines" Manuscripts should combine concepts from neuroscience and/or psychology with problems in economics, marketing, business, management, or finance.

We welcome papers from all fields related to Life Cycle choices, including papers dealing with theoretical and empirical issues relating to topics such as: non-consumption and saving decisions with standard and non-standard preferences, purchases of durable consumption items, housing decisions,...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...