The purpose of the Workshop is to focus on specific challenges around measuring performance in education and other public services sectors. The Workshop will bring together scholars from various disciplines and fields to debate the present and future challenges in education and public sector...

This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in economics, sociology, politics, history, geography and other disciplines. In...

Conference theme: Power and Empowerment in times of multiple crisis. Key academic themes: - History and methodology - How do we understand this moment in the evolution of Europe’s political economy (eg Hobson 2012)? How do the methodological advances of EAEPE address the boundaries of the...

The development landscape has never been static but in these times of uncertainty and insecurity, we are witnessing ever more profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion. Dominant trajectories and paths of ‘development’ have led the world to the brink of...

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...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics.

The 5th Annual Conference on European Studies: Europe in Unchartered Territories brings together economists and political scientists to address European socio-economic issues, with the objective of contributing to the evaluation and design of institutions and policies in and for Europe. This...

The workshop aims at fostering an interdisciplinary debate involving economists, political scientists, statisticians, and other social scientists towards a better understanding of inequality. The CISEPS Workshop encourages contributions about new theoretical/methodological approaches and applied...