D Sessions - Agricultural Transformation in Africa E Sessions - Diversification, Infrastructure, and Economic Transformation in Africa

We are seeking new and innovative contributions that shed light either on the microeconomic analysis of peace and conflict or on the evaluation of the impact of projects and programs that aim to reduce violence and promote peace and development. A non-exhaustive list of themes we are interested...

This conference is being held in conjunction with the 2015 ASSA Annual Meeting.

This conference is being held in conjunction with the ASSA 2015 Annual Meeting. We are currently seeking papers on “ISSUES ON AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT”. We highly encourage submissions of papers on African Development by young economists and graduate students.

With the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the Millennium goals and given these new and ongoing challenges, it is time to reassess the role that international economic law (IEL) has played and continues to play in development. How effective is IEL at promoting development, broadly...

Topics: - Mismatch of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the labor market; - Cognitive and non-cognitive skills and labor productivity; - The evolution of cognitive and non-cognitive skills over the life cycle; - Policy interventions and the formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

In the past 200 years, the world has experienced unprecedented economic development as well as profound demographic changes. Many dimensions of these dynamic processes are not well understood. What are the underlying forces behind the different dimensions of economic and demographic development,...

In the spirit of pluralism characteristic of the EAEPE, many Research Areas are relevant: human development, environmental economics, methodology of economics, institutional history, comparative economics, transition economics, institutional change, innovation and technology, and labour...

The theme of the conference will be “The Role of Theory in Development Economics”. The ABCDE Organizing Committee is issuing a call for papers on innovative ways that analytical and deductive methods, as well as issues of methodology such as the use of randomizations, can be used in...

Paper submissions that adopt novel methodological approaches for addressing relevant macroeconomic and financial questions are highly encouraged. Empirical and theoretical papers are both welcome. Selection of papers will be based largely on the quality of the individual paper, but also to...