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...

The Annual Conference 2021 will be held as a virtual conference. The Annual Conference of the Verein fuer Socialpolitik consists of an Open Meeting with mixed topics and of a core conference with invited lectures concerning “Climate Economics”. Presentations and Organised Sessions for the...

The conference will take place at the University of Graz. All submissions remain valid for the new date. The research conference will focus on social policy research in Austria and social policy research on Austria, analyses from a regional, national or comparative perspective as well as in a...

Topics: Labor market inequality; Family relations; Gender inequality; Cognitive and noncognitive skills; Educational inequality; Work-life interferences; Well-being; Civic and democratic participation. Research on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is particularly welcome.

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 aim of this workshop is to host presentation and foster interaction between female researchers working in the areas of microeconomics and applied microeconomics/-econometrics. For this inaugural workshop, we particularly invite submissions by female researchers in the following areas, but...

The WHU Bachelor European Summer Program offers a three-week course on 'The Business, Political, and Cultural Environment in Europe’ for Bachelor students of WHU's partner schools on the attractive campus in Vallendar. The program offers a targeted and compact insight into international...

Während die lokalen und globalen Frauenbewegungen schon seit vielen Jahrzehnten um Anerkennung für Care-Arbeit kämpfen, etwa wenn sie die schlechte Bezahlung und die belastenden Arbeitsbedingungen in den von Frauen dominierten Sozial- und Pflegeberufen kritisieren, hat die Pandemie das Thema...

This conference deals with selected gender-related topics in money and finance: Does gender diversity affect economic outcomes? Would a more balanced gender mix in policy institutions such as central banks make for different or better decisions? Would a balanced gender mix in financial firms...