We welcome empirical papers about any aspect of inequality in economic outcomes (household income, consumption, wealth, earnings, employment) in developed societies, and papers that assess how welfare states are responding, or might respond.

What is the role of the Welfare State in a time of economic crisis, fiscal austerity and social problems? This conference, organized by the University of Lisbon, aims to stimulate academic discussion on the present and future of the welfare state in Portugal. It is expected to be a meeting of...

The ESRC and British Academy (BA) are co-hosting a unique scoping workshop designed to explore issues around sustainable prosperity. This interactive event aims to bring a diverse range of people and perspectives together to discuss novel ideas and fresh approaches to the issue of building an...

In this workshop we want to consider both the economic dimension and the social dynamics of ageing societies. We welcome submission of theoretical, empirical and policy papers. The suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the relation between population ageing and the...

Topics: - Health and time use - Parenting and child care - Time poverty - GPS and Tracking - Eating and health - Children's time use - Surveys in Developing Countries - Leisure - Well-being of carers - Travel - Location and Travel - Gendered time use - Health in rural environments - Household...

Abstracts on any topic relating to child indicators would be welcomed. Papers with a comparative content are encouraged. Methodological papers would be received with pleasure. We hope to organise themed parallel sessions on the following subjects during the conference: - National and...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Socio-economic networks - Network generation mechanisms in socio-economic models - Evolutionary networks - Complex systems and emergent networks - Tools for network dynamics - Games on Networks

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. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...

This One Day conference aims to foster dialogue between sociological theory and social policy through exploring contemporary debates around issues such as age and ageing, care and care-giving, disability, health and well-being, social capital and social exclusion.