Events

The course is designed to be of particular benefit to Ph.D. students and researchers in all Social Sciences needing to undertake policy evaluation analysis using microdata. The School will present 1) the fundamental principles of impact evaluation with a specific focus on the counterfactual theory of causal inference and 2) a variety of statistical tools for counterfactual analysis (including Matching methods, Instrumental Variables, Regression Discontinuity Designs , Difference-in-Differences, and Synthetic Control Methods). [...]

The Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione (Population Days), held every two years, is one of the most important initiatives of the Italian Association for the Study of Population (Sis-AISP).  On that occasion, Italian and international leading experts and scholars, mainly from academia, the National Institute of Statistics (Istat) and other national and governmental agencies, come together to present completed, planned, and ongoing research on issues relating to the population and society with a multidisciplinary approach. Official languages are Italian and English. [...]

ALP-POP The 9th Alpine Population Conference La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy January 27–30, 2019   Alp-Pop brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, including demography, economics, epidemiology, political science, sociology and psychology. The conference emphasizes empirical rigor and innovation over a given topic or geographical area, and meets the challenges of interdisciplinary and international audiences. [...]

The 3rd International CILS4EU User Conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany from February 7 to February 8, 2019. We welcome any contribution that makes use of the CILS4EU data, including either single country studies or cross-country comparative work, cross-sectional or longitudinal studies, studies on any substantive topic or with a methodological focus, as well as work based on the first three international waves or based on any of the national follow-up studies. [...]

The conference is planned for two days (7th and 8th February 2018) and will take place at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, Prague 2. All participants will have the possibility to present their actual research and discuss it with colleagues from other countries or fields of study. Although the conference is focused mostly on Ph.D. [...]

In this concluding seminar of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifespan extension with Varying Cause-of-Death Trajectories – after successful sessions in India, Brazil and South-Africa – we are interested in the underlying causes of varying cause-of-death trajectories leading to the same high life expectancy levels by identifying and describing different types of specific mortality trajectories, and explaining how different trajectories in European Societies may have or [...]

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) of the United Nations, the  International  Institute  for  Applied  System  Analysis  (IIASA),  and  Chulalongkorn  University, in collaboration  with  the  Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), are organizing an international expert group meeting entitled “Measuring  population ageing: Bridging Research and Policy”. [...]

Research on social stratification and mobility and migration studies are both interested in the issue of inequality: both research streams are indeed concerned with the analysis of the impact of birth characteristics on life chances. This workshop aims to integrate these two areas of research, promoting and encouraging the dialogue between sociologists and labour economists interested in geographical mobility. Do the mechanisms of reproduction of social inequality work differently among migrants and their descendants? Have migrants worse life opportunities net of social class? [...]

This two-day workshop will be held on 20 and 21 March 2019 as a part of the Research Initiative of the Max Planck Society “The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion,” located at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. [...]

First French-German conference on research based on confidential administrative and survey data The first CASD / IAB Conference on the advances in social sciences using administrative and survey data will take place on March 28-29, 2019 in Paris. [...]