The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting childbearing and family processes around the globe. First studies have documented changes in couples’ fertility plans and work division within the household, or predict fertility declines in high-income countries based on now-casting methods. Yet, the...

We encourage submissions on any aspect of the pandemic including, for example, measuring its effects and the social and economic disruptions that it has and will create: discrimination and a possible sharpening of inequities, and the differential vulnerability or resilience of specific groups...

Unter dem Titel: „Wirtschaftspolitik nach Covid-19: die Geschlechterperspektive“ wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Auswirkungen es hätte, wenn Gender ein fester Bestandteil von wirtschaftspolitischen Strategien wäre. Wie geht die Wirtschaftspolitik nach Covid-19 weiter? Welche...

Although global population is still growing, an ever larger number of regions and countries are experiencing a decline in population size, and the COVID-19 pandemic may have further accelerated the process. Undoubtedly, depopulation poses many challenges from economic, social, political, and...

Etienne Lwamba (3ie) and Angela Heucher (DEval) The Digital Development Dialogue (3D) seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a...

Conference topics: This year’s Historical Materialism online conference seeks proposals for papers and panels on the following area: - the impact of the pandemic on the right to protest; - the rise of social movements against the state and state institutions; - the relation between the...

Topics : - Gender norms, institutions and labour market outcomes; - Family formation and dynamics; - Female labour force participation; - Women's economic, social, and political empowerment. Due to the current situation, the conference is designed exclusively as an online workshop, taking place...

The conference will be held both in person and online. Sessions will focus primarily on issues encountered by under-represented groups in economics, finance and central banking. We invite papers drawn from a variety of methods, perspectives, and disciplines and especially encourage submissions...

Topics: - Changes in the demand for long-term care; - Healthcare expenditures associated with long-term care; - Funding systems (including international comparisons); - The consequences of informal care on caregivers (e.g., health and employment); - Policies to cope with the increasing demand for...

Although information on individuals has never been so abundant, particularly through administrative databases (registers, censuses, surveys) or private databases (tracking of individuals on the internet or by telephone networks), many populations are partially, or sometimes completely,...