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,...

We invite contributions from both senior and junior researchers that focus on the role of families in insuring individuals against downside risk. Potential topics include: - The role of households in insuring against income risk or health risk; - The trade-off between self-insurance of...

Key themes: Time Use during COVID-19; Time Use and Family Health Behaviors; Time Use and Gender; Behavioral Effects Time and Financial Stress; Sleep and Employment; Fatigue and Leisure Consumption; Sleep Deprivation Wellbeing; Employment and Time Use; Mental Health and Labor Market. Keywords:...

The focus in 2021 will be on gender economics and centered around the theme of this year’s UN International Women’s Day: "Women in Leadership". We invite contributions from both senior and junior researchers that focus on: - Executive women in the private and public sector - Women in...

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 investment choices in developing economies. The school is targeted to graduate students,...

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: - The Resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises; - Macro and Micro Skewness and Volatility Over the Business Cycle; - Do We Need Traditional Dealers in OTC Markets?; - U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity; - Expectations of Fundamentals and Stock Market...

The aim of the 2021 workshop of IZA's Environment, Health, and Labor Markets program area is to bring together researchers analyzing the impact of environmental factors and health policies on labor market outcomes, human capital outcomes, industrial activity, production decisions and demographic...

Program: - "Countercyclical Congestion"; - "The Real Wages of Newly Hired Workers over the Business Cycle: When the Difference between Worker Flows from Unemployment and Out-of-Labor Force Matters"; - "The Dynamics of Job Search in Unemployment"; - "Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

The current macroeconomic environment of low interest rates, low inflation and (in some cases) low growth has been going on for a prolonged period of time in many advanced countries, spurring a debate on both its causes and its policy implications: Why is inflation falling short of central...