Critical junctures – such as revolutions and democratic transitions – allow researchers to observe contexts in which key fundamental drivers of institutional change are varying “in real time”. This conference will bring together scholars from political economy, development economics, and...

Am 20. Oktober findet die 4. BAuA-Fachveranstaltung "Arbeitszeit in Deutschland" statt, am 21. Oktober das 10. Symposium der Arbeitszeitgesellschaft. Die Arbeitszeitgesellschaft möchte die Arbeitszeitforschung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz besser vernetzen und einen...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for graduate students and young researchers who are working in the field of development and international economics. This year the focus will be on conflict, social cohesion, and Development. The school is targeted to graduate students,...

The aim of the Globelics Academy PhD School is to support the training of PhD students from all over the world writing theses on issues related to innovation systems and development. The Academy brings together frontier researchers in innovation with PhD students from the South and the North in...

The summer school aims at providing an introduction to Keynesian macroeconomics and to the problems of European economic policies to interested graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. It will consist of overview lectures, a panel discussion, student study groups, an SFC lab, and a...

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...

The BSE Development Economics Summer School explores some of the most recent and exciting work in the field of economic development. Both theoretical and empirical aspects will be covered, with a precise focus on policy that improves economic well-being in poor and developing countries. The...

This course will arm you with tools to measure health inequality. It will encourage and facilitate evaluation of the normative foundations of inequality measures. You will become familiar with methods used to explain socioeconomic disparities in health and to identify inequity in the...

Die aktuellen Erfahrungen mit den Risiken der Pandemie stellen die grundlegende gesellschaftliche Frage „Wie können wir uns vor Risiken schützen“ in den Mittelpunkt wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung. Risiken des Klimawandels, der Digitalisierung oder weitere Pandemien bis hin zu...