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...

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...

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...

The biannual EuHEA Conference provides opportunities for participants from academia, policy and industry to exchanges ideas and innovations in the field of health economics. The theme of the conference is “Shaping the future: the role of health economics”. It wishes to stress the need and...

This course will arm you with tools to measure health inequality. It will also make you familiar with models developed to explain socioeconomic disparities in health and competent in empirical methods used to estimate socioeconomic determinants of health. The course is targeted at economists...

This summer, the 13th Tinbergen Institute Conference will be held on International Trade and Development at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam. The TI conference is held every year but on different topics.

Netspar, Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement, is a thinktank and knowledge network. Netspar is dedicated to promoting a wider understanding of the economic and social implications of pensions, aging and retirement in the Netherlands and Europa. Attendance at the International...