The COVID-19 outbreak has cut China's supply of and raised the world's demand for face masks, disinfectants, ventilators, and other critical medical goods. This article studies the economic and political factors that are associated with China's exports of medical equipment during the first two...

Decades of twin studies have established that any conceivable human trait has a heritable component, including biologically distal traits such as personality traits, educational attainment, and income. This insight, combined with a rapid increase in the availability of genetic data, has paved...

The conference is open to all areas of microsimulation, including static and dynamic microsimulation, agent-based models, behavioural models, and all applied and methodological contributions related to microsimulation. There will also be thematic streams during the conference: - Labour markets...

The workshop aims to gather (junior) researchers with an interest in applying the tools of economics to problems surrounding mental health. This includes, but is not limited to, mental health economics studies looking at informal care, loneliness, social exclusion, access to health care,...

The theme of this year’s IRSA conference is COVID-19 Disruption and Regional Development in Small Island Economies. Potential topics to be discussed in the conference include, but not limited to: 1. Social and economic impact of COVID-19 2. Regional Government Policy in dealing with...

Special Theme: Social Networks, Disaster Recovery and Environmental Governance in the Face of Climate Change. The session topics include, but are not limited to: Crime networks; Networks and organisations; Health; Social media; Social enterprise; Governance; Network methods; Networks in...

Conference theme: ‘Health economics for sustainable welfare systems’. The purpose of the EUHEA is to promote cooperation among all national health economics associations and groups in Europe as well as to profile and foster health economics at European universities.

The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "Digitalization and its consequences at the individual and distributional level". We particularly welcome contributions examining the economic, political, psychological, and social consequences of technological change and digitalization at...

An in-person conference, with hybrid access. The current pandemic has brought attention to the need for international cooperation to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic and produce an inclusive recovery. The far-reaching consequences of COVID-19 on local, national, and global economies have...

This course will arm you with tools to measure health inequality. It will encourage and facilitate evaluation of the normative foundations of inequality measures. You will become familiar with methods used to explain socioeconomic disparities in health and to identify inequity in the...