Objectives Recently, NHS England (NHSE) launched the High-Volume Low-Complexity (HVLC) surgical hubs programme as part of the elective recovery plan. HVLC hubs were designed to separate elective surgery from other hospital activities, protecting procedures from emergency care disruptions. We...

The SSHA conference meets annually, usually in November. The location changes according to the following logic: once every three years in Chicago, once every three years somewhere on the ‘East Coast’ and once every three years somewhere else. Since 2010, the Association has extended its...

For the 2025 Prais Lecture on Productivity we will be welcoming Professor Anthony J. Venables. Tony Venables is a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, part-time research professor at Monash University, Melbourne and Honorary Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School. He is...

Wie erfolgreich sind die nach Deutschland Geflüchteten in den Arbeitsmarkt integriert? Was ist in den vergangenen zehn Jahren gut gelungen? Wo gibt es Defizite? Und: Welche Möglichkeiten hat die Politik eigentlich, Migrationsströme zu lenken? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen und zur Diskussion...

Objectives: Violence against women carries severe health and socioeconomic costs for individuals and societies worldwide. Childbearing is a particularly vulnerable moment, with higher rates of violence and long-lasting consequences for women and their children. This paper investigates how...

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 18th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference on November 13 and 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. This event will bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC’s...

This masterclass is aimed at students and researcher who are interested in exploring the relationship between microeconometric methods and empirical policy evaluation. The lectures will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of reduced form and structural approaches to policy evaluation,...

Join global healthcare leaders, researchers, and decision-makers at ISPOR Europe 2025, the premier conference for health economics and outcomes research (HEOR). This year’s theme, "Powering Value and Access through Patient-Centered Collaboration," emphasizes the importance of strengthening...

Now in its 9th year, NABE’s Tech Economics Conference (TEC2025) brings together hundreds of applied economists, data scientists, academics, and graduate students for an intellectual exchange on how developments in economics and data science are impacting approaches, frameworks, tools, and...

Health care decisions are sometimes a matter of life and death, but also their financial consequences can be disastrous for many households around the world. While it is easy to imagine how the fear of making an expensive mistake may deter particularly poor households from making ottheiherwise...