The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...

Vorzeitig defekte bzw. nicht mehr voll funktionsfähige Produkte sind ein Ärgernis für Verbraucher. Ausgewiesene Experten aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Verbänden werden das vielschichtige Problem der Obsoleszenz aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Disziplinen beleuchten. Ziel des...

UK Data Service Census Support is holding a one-day conference to provide users and data creators with an opportunity to meet and discuss developments in census research. The day will be composed of presentations from census agencies on developments in data and from users who have used the data...

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 conference is open to all who are interested in the problems of contemporary welfare state. Stream Themes: - Comparative methodology - Pensions - Health care - Labour market policy - Family policy - Social services and social work - Poverty and social assistance - Education - Inequalities...

List of Themes: - Family, Marriage and work - Labour Market Discrimination - Retirement - Program and Policy evaluation - Labour supply - Labour demand - Occupational choice and Intergenerational Mobility - Education, Training and Human Capital - Health - Job and Life Satisfaction - Wage...

Theoretical, Empirical/Experimental, and Applied works that involve the application of psychology and all other social sciences, as well as neuroscience, to all areas of financial decision-making and practice will be considered for presentation at the conference.

We welcome empirical papers about any aspect of inequality in economic outcomes (household income, consumption, wealth, earnings, employment) in developed societies, and papers that assess how welfare states are responding, or might respond.

Topics: - Patterns of asset allocation and debt behavior over the life cycle - Financing retirement and the demographic transition - Consumer indebtedness, financial distress and default decisions - Behavioral approaches to household finances - Financial literacy and financial education...

Conference streams: 1. Diffusion of Ideas 2. Towards a European Social Policy? 3. Globalization and Social Policy 4. On the Interrelationship of Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability 5. Comparative Methodology- Reforms of Social Security Programs as Case 6. Welfare Funding 6a)...