Programme: Tuesday, 2 June 4-5pm (CAT): Siobhan Hitchcock (Rhodes), "Gender Bias in the Field of Economics: An Analysis of South African Academia" Tuesday, 23 June 4-5pm (CAT): Kehinde Omotoso (Unisa), "Gender Differences in Learners’ Access to National Mathematics Workbooks: Are there...

There will be a poster session to which PhD students and post-docs are most welcome to submit application. The workshop is open to all.

Topics of interest can include, albeit by no means limited to, studies that focus on: 1) Actors: Studies focusing on protests and social movements emerging and revolving around class and non-class identities such as migrants, peasants, women, LGBTIH, and youth. 2) Context or process-tracing:...

Researchers with an interest in political economy are invited to submit papers for the 2012 Silvaplana workshop. Papers can be theoretical and/or empirical. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] The website is no longer available.

Referent: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Bruno S. Frey (Universität Zürich) Gegenwärtig spielt sich in der Ökonomie eine beinahe revolutionäre Entwicklung ab. Die direkte empirische Erfassung des subjektiven Wohlbefindens fordert die traditionelle Ökonomie heraus, inspiriert sie zu neuen...

Topics: - Magnitude of the costs of conflict in cross-country analysis - Effects on health and schooling - Household coping strategies in (post-)conflict situations - The relationship between conflict and foreign investment - Accounting techniques for the calculation of conflict costs - Case...

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and graduate students from neuroscience, behavioral decision making and marketing to provide: methodological training for students a state of the art overview in the nascent field of decision neuroscience for students opportunities to network with...

The field of "psychology and economics" focuses on systematic deviations from the standard economic model and asks how they affect important economic decisions such as savings, investment, labor supply, or purchase decisions. To do this, "behavioral economics" builds upon insights from a variety...

With this workshop we aim to bring together researchers from all over the world who apply the concept of ‘path’ in studying social processes and phenomena in a broad range of disciplines, settings and topics. By exchanging the latest ideas and findings in this two-day forum, it will be...

We propose that the EGOS 2006 general theme be devoted to studying how different forms of organizing interact in shaping contemporary society and how society shapes organizing in turn. The research implications are far reaching, involving all traditions of the social sciences and the humanities.