RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Workshop. The idea is to create a forum of junior and senior scholars discussing cutting-edge research in economic growth, trade, and economic history dealing with economic development disparities across and within countries. This workshop aims to...

Finding good and creative research ideas is a struggle for many PhD students early in their academic career. Some will find it difficult to find the right research question for their PhD, others will stop ideating after their first idea, and some will have many ideas but do not know which one to...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

Die 10. Konferenz „Forschen mit dem Mikrozensus“ bietet eine Plattform zur Diskussion von inhaltlichen und methodischen Beiträgen aus allen Arbeitsgebieten der Sozialwissenschaften und angrenzenden Disziplinen. Darüber hinaus dient die Konferenz dem Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen...

The conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present the results of their research at the intersection of gender and climate change. We encourage the submission of papers that examine: - Differentiated impacts of climate change on men, women, girls, and boys, including labor,...

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies,...

Thematic Workshops: Workshop 1 – Areas of concern and proposals for less unequal worlds Workshop 2 – Unequal access to “invisible or online” education for those who already suffered from unequal access to “visible or in-person” education Workshop 3 – The Pandemic and the growing...

Lightning talks: - Tee Lip Hwe, Singapore Management University Libraries “Virtualisation of SMU Investment Studio” - Josep Soler Teixidor, Library Director, Esade Business School „Virtual Reality at Esade Library: Let’s start!“ - Dr. Ramin Nassehi, Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics,...

Climate change is one of the greatest economic challenges of our time. Given the scale of the problem, the question of whether a carbon tax should be introduced is hotly-debated in policy circles. This paper studies the design of a carbon tax when environmental factors, such as air...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the planet in the 21st century, and this event will provide insight for academics, policymakers and educators about challenges and insights that economics can provide relating to climate change. Event lead by the RES Education and Training...