Population Association of America – Call for Papers

Dear PAA Colleagues,

Reminder – The deadline for submissions for the PAA 2013 Annual Meeting is September 21, 2012. The PAA Annual Meeting will be held April 11-13, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Call for Papers (PDF) is posted on the 2013 Annual Meeting Program Website. Submissions are made online.

Information is also posted for:

Travel Awards
Member-Initiated Meetings
Advertisements, Book displays and Exhibits

The PAA Board of Directors wishes to encourage broad participation in the Annual Meeting. If you would like to serve as a session Chair or Discussant at the 2013 Annual Meeting, please indicate your interest by sending an email to stephanie@popassoc.org.
In order to appear on the program, presenters must register for the meeting. Registration fees are posted on the PAA website.  Registration will open in January 2013.

Check the PAA website throughout the year for updated meeting information.

Thank you,
PAA 2013 Annual Meeting Services

Session Topics:
Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health
Marriage, Family, Households, and Unions
Children and Youth
Health and Mortality
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Migration and Population Distribution
Economy, Labor Force, Education, and Inequality
Population, Development, and Environment
Population and Aging
Data and Methods
Applied Demography

Details:
http://paa2013.princeton.edu/

Researching Children’s Outcomes: An All-Island Approach

Researching Children’s Outcomes: An All-Island Approach

Date: 26 September 2012

Venue: Chartered Acountants House, 47 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

Researching Children’s Outcomes: An All-Island Approach is a conference that aims to bring together researchers to consider the merits of, opportunities for, and challenges to, all-island research on children’s outcomes using existing data.

Call for Posters

The deadline for the receipt of poster submissions is this FRIDAY 31st August 2012. 

Poster abstract submissions on the conference theme are now invited. This opportunity allows you to present and discuss your work, either a research study or work in progress. Posters are particularly welcome on the following themes:

• Children’s educational outcomes
• Children’s health outcomes
• Children’s behavioural outcomes
• Comparing children’s outcomes across jurisdictions
• Translating research on children’s outcomes into policy and practice.

For more details and the form for submitting poster abstracts  see the attached document.

This is an essential event for everyone involved in children's research on the island of Ireland. The conference programme has been put together to encourage networking and also to engage people in discussion. It also provides an interactive forum with poster submissions and a pre conference questions forum. For more information and to book your place click here.

Population Association of America 2012

The annual PAA conference took place recently in San Francisco. This is comparable in size and scope to the AEA and is mainly focused on demography but also covers research in economics, ageing, and development (amongst others). Over 200 sessions were organised, the topics being:

Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behaviour, and Reproductive Health
Marriage, Family, Households, and Unions
Children and Youth
Health and Mortality
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Migration and Urbanization
Economy, Labour Force, Education, and Inequality
Population, Development, and Environment
Population and Aging
Data and Methods
Applied Demography

All papers are available for download on the PAA website.

http://paa2012.princeton.edu/SessionsByTopic.aspx

Some highlights:

The Economics of Fertility
New Evidence on School Reforms and Child Outcomes
Longevity and Life Expectancy

There were two sessions chaired by Richard Easterlin:

Happiness and Economic and Social Well-Being
Happiness in International Perspective

Irish Economic Association Conference

THE IRISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Annual Conference
26 - 27 APRIL, 2012.
Institute of Bankers, Dublin.

The Twenty-sixth annual conference of the Irish Economic Association will be held on 26th and 27th April, 2012 at the Institute of Bankers, North Wall Quay. Dublin. The Conference will run over 2 days, starting at 9am on the morning of Thursday 26th, and finishing before 7pm on Friday 27th.

The Conference Programme is now available.

CIISN Health in Crisis Conference

Sarah Gibney and Marcella McGovern will present at the Critical Issues in Irish Society Network (CIISN) Health in Crisis Conference in UCD on April 19th. Further details below.

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the CIISN Health in Crisis Conference on Thursday 19th April 2012, Seminar Room, Humanities Institute, University College Dublin. Please see attached poster for the conference outline.

This conference will bring together PhD students, researchers and prominent international academics, as well as health campaigners in the public eye to discuss issues critical to health and well-being in our society. It will offer researchers the opportunity to network, as well as a chance to reach new audiences within and beyond the academic sphere.

Speakers include:

Professor Eamon O'Shea (Irish Center for Social Gerontology,NUI Galway)
Dr Noel Richardson (Director of Center for Men's Health,CIT)
Orla Tinsley (Cystic Fibrosis Campaigner)

SHARE User Conference

Dear SHARE User,

(Apologies for cross postings)

The first SHARE Users' conference organized in Italy will take place in June 28-29, 2012, at the Economics department of Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy. Attached please find the call for papers. Information about the conference can be found at the Conference website (http://venus.unive.it/share/index.php?id=55). Submissions of abstracts must be made to the email from which you are receiving this message (share@unive.it). Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2012.

The Conference has the objective of promoting the exchange of research ideas and discuss results of ongoing research among international users of SHARE data. Submissions by PhD students and researchers at early stages of their career are particularly encouraged: there are no conference fees and financial support, conditional on the number of submissions and available resources, will be provided to graduate students.

The invited speakers will be Axel H. Börsch-Supan (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy) and Alberto Holly (Université de Lausanne). The welcome address will be given by Guglielmo Weber (University of Padua).

We hope you are interested in submitting to the conference and we kindly ask you to circulate the call for papers among your colleagues.

Best regards,
The organizing committee

Discrete Choice Course in NUIG

Discrete Choice Modeling

Professor William Greene

Stern School of Business, New York University

at

National University of Ireland, Galway

with funding from NUI Galway's Millennium Fund

July 4-6, 2012

The National University of Ireland Galway, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics is delighted to host a three day intensive course on 'Discrete Choice Modeling' with Professor William Greene of the Stern School of Business at New York University. Discrete choice models have become an essential tool for the analysis of individual choice behavior and can be applied to choice problems in a wide variety of diverse fields including environmental management, urban planning, transportation, energy, telecommunications, and healthcare. This course will present the most recent developments in theory and methods of estimation for discrete choice models. A number of applications from different areas of the professional literature to illustrate these techniques will be discussed.

The presentation will include roughly ten morning classroom meetings. In the afternoon of each day, we will do some hands on analysis using “live” data sets and a familiar computer package.

Course Fee

The course fee is €350 if registered on or before May 15th 2012 and €420 thereafter. Places are limited to 50 so early booking is recommended. The fee includes refreshments throughout the course.

Conference Venue

The conference will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway in the Aras Moyola Building.

Conference 2012

Immediately prior to the econometrics summer school on July, 3rd 2012, NUI Galway is holding the Applied Microeconometrics and Public Policy Conference. Please click here for details.

Volvo Ocean Race

Galway is a vibrant and exciting city all year round. However, if you need an added incentive for your trip, the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race is due to arrive in Galway a few days before the start of the course. This will attract tens of thousands of visitors to Galway with many special events planned over a two week period. Delegates are recommended to book early to obtain best value in hotel rates.

Further Information

Contact conference secretariat: Trish Carney
Email: p.carney4@nuigalway.ie

Health in Crisis Conference

The Critical Issues in Irish Society Network wishes to announce a call for abstracts for a one-day conference, Health in Crisis?

Following on from the success of last year’s seminar series, the CIISN present the one-day conference ‘Health in Crisis?’. This conference will bring together PhD students, researchers and prominent international academics, as well as health campaigners from the public eye to discuss issues critical to health and well being in our society. It will offer researchers the opportunity to network, as well as a chance to reach new audiences beyond the academic sphere.

Presentations and presentation posters will be structured around streams that include:

1. Experiences of Health and Illness

2. Chronic conditions

3. Patient organisation and support groups

4. Health policy, service delivery and organisation

5. Health technologies and genetics

6. Inequalities

7. Gender& Ethnicity

8. Life-course: reproductive health, ageing, death and dying

9. Ethics

10. Individual, collective and global risk

11. Preventive Health

12. Theory

13. Methods

The abstract submission is now open. Closing deadline is Friday 24th February2012.

The conference will be held in University College Dublin April 2012.

Upcoming details will be available on http://ciisn.wordpress.com/

IEA Call For Papers

THE IRISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Annual Conference
26 - 27 APRIL, 2012.
Institute of Bankers, Dublin.
CALL FOR PAPERS.

The Twenty-sixth annual conference of the Irish Economic Association will be held on 26th and 27th April, 2012 at the Institute of Bankers, North Wall Quay. Dublin. The Association invites submissions of papers to be considered for the conference programme. Papers may be on any area in Economics, Finance and Econometrics.

The 2012 Conference will run over 2 days, starting at 9am on the morning of Thursday 26th, and finishing before 7pm on Friday 27th. As it is not based in a hotel, accommodation arrangements will be separate from the main conference registration.

For the full Call for Papers, click here.

Growing Up in Ireland Conference

Growing Up in Ireland – the National Longitudinal Study of Children, will hold its third annual research conference on Thursday 1^st December 2011 at the D4 Berkeley Hotel, Lansdowne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

The conference will be opened by Ms Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, who will launch some Key Findings from the recently completed Infant Cohort (at 3 years) as well as some of the first longitudinal findings from the study.

The Keynote speaker is Professor Edward Melhuish, Professor of Human Development at Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is an internationally recognised expert in the study of child development and childcare and has extensive experience with longitudinal studies. His research interests include child development, parenting, childcare and early education.

A total of 24 papers will be presented at the conference, by researchers from a wide range of third level and research institutions. These will be based on data from Growing Up in Ireland’s Child and Infant Cohorts and will focus on a range of topics including health, parenting, education and childcare.

Early booking is encouraged and bookings should only be made on the registration form below and sent to Guiconference2011@esri.ie.

For further details, including the programme see:

http://www.growingup.ie/index.php?id=221

2012 Royal Economic Society Conference

Details below or at this link


2012 Annual Conference

26 March to 28 March 2012

University of Cambridge


Keynote Lectures

Elhanan Helpman Harvard University (EJ Lecture)

Nancy Stokey University of Chicago (Hahn Lecture)

Ariel Pakes Harvard University (Sargan Lecture)

Plenary Panel: Lessons from the European Debt Crisis

Ken Rogoff Harvard University

Guillermo Calvo Columbia University

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi ECB

Call for Papers

Join us at the Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society 2012. The Programme Committee invites submissions of papers for General Sessions from academic, government and business economists in any field of economics and econometrics. Submissions can be made from 15 July 2011. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2011. Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid-December 2011.

Visit this site to make a submission for the 2012 Annual Conference:

https://editorialexpress.com/conference/res2012

Further details on registration, accommodation and other matters – including information on financial support for postgraduate students attending the Conference – will follow.

Call for Special Session Proposals

The RES conference committee invites invites proposals for special sessions to be considered for inclusion in the RES 2012 conference programme. Proposals can be submitted to res2012@econ.cam.ac.uk by 15 October. Details can be found here.

Call for Young Talent Nominations

The Royal Economic Society is running a special session to showcase 'young talent' at the RES 2012 conference. If you would like to nominate someone to be considered for inclusion in this session e-mail the programme chair at res2012@econ.cam.ac.uk by 15 September. More details can be found here.

Programme Chair: Francesco Caselli (LSE)
Deputy Programme Chair: Chryssi Giannitsarou (Cambridge)
Local Organizers: Pramila Krishnan and Solomos Solomou (Cambridge)

Randomized Controlled Trials or Structural Models (or both... or neither...)?

This weekend the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at Oxford hosts their 25th annual conference. The plenary sessions will be broadcast live at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2011-EdiA/video.html

Sunday 20 March 2011 14: 30- 16:00 GMT Panel Debate: Research, African Economic Policy and the Role of Private Business

Monday 21 March 2011 8:30 -9:30 GMT Assessing the Millennium Villages Program

Monday 21 March 2011 9:30-10:30 GMT Keynote speech on 'Education as Liberation?' by leading US academic Michael Kremer

And of particular interest is the following session featuring:

• Marcel Fafchamps, CSAE
• Glenn Harrison, Georgia State University
• David McKenzie, World Bank
• Leonard Wantchekon, New York University

Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:30-18:30 GMT Panel Debate: Randomized Controlled Trials or Structural Models (or both... or neither...)?

Irish Society of New Economists 2011

This year's conference will be hosted by UCD, and for those of you who aren't familiar with it, ISNE was formed to encourage research, information and social links among students at the early stages of their careers in Ireland and Europe. So it's a great opportunity to present in a relaxed atmosphere. The conference is intended for PhD students though submissions related to all aspects of economics are also welcome from advanced masters students and young professionals. ISNE 2010 featured 28 sessions with over 100 speakers from 66 departments in 20 countries.

The call for papers is available here. Deadline for abstracts is May 30th, and the conference will be held on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th August. There will be keynotes by Professors Morgan Kelly (UCD) and Peter Neary (Oxford).

www.isne2011.com will be updated with further details.

David Laibson: Natural Expectations and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

David Laibson from Harvard University will be giving the keynote address at the upcoming conference on Economics and Psychology, to be held in the UCD Research Building on November 23rd. At the event, Laibson is set to speak on the topic of "Natural Expectations and Economic Behavior". For readers who want a taste in advance, there may be similar grounded covered in a paper by Laibson forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Perspectives: "Natural Expectations and Macroeconomic Fluctuations".

Incentives and Penalties for Third-Level Colleges

Writing on his blog, Ferdinand von-Prondzynski discusses in detail a report in the Irish Independent newspaper, which states that Irish higher education institutions will, under the framework of reforms to be recommended in the Hunt Report, face a combination of incentives and penalties. More specifically, "under a new funding system, colleges will receive reduced ‘core’ grants from the Exchequer. They will then be offered financial ‘incentives’ to meet targets in areas such as the retention of students, the rate of course completion, increasing access to college, teaching standards and research. If they fail to meet these targets, they will face financial penalties."

Ferdinand makes the point that a student retention target can easily be met by lowering the demands made by programmes of study, or moderating the severity of marking and assessment. He also states that "there is already a distinct financial penalty for student non-completion. A student who drops out will cause an immediate financial loss, because his or her fees (as paid by the state) and their part of the recurrent grant disappears". Furthermore, Ferdinand notes that if the HEA were to impose a penalty and withdraw further funds, this would directly lead to a lowering of quality of provision for those students who remain.

In addition to this, one could argue that it is not much good giving instiutions a financial reward for something that they need finance to achieve. Improving student retention will require enhanced student services, which in turn will cost money. Research by Joshua Angrist, Daniel Lang and Philip Oreopoulos shows that student services improve retention and achievement for females at Canadian colleges, even when incentives are also provided. The picture for males seems more complicated, but we do know from this Canadian study that females are more likely to use services than males. We also know from the recent HEA report, Study of Progression in Irish Higher Education, that males are more likely than females to not complete their course (17% male to 13% female non-completion rates).

From reading the accompanying HEA press release, it has come to my attention that there was a conference on student retention held in Dublin last Thursday. If one scrolls down on this webpage from the Irish Learning Technology Association, the flier can be seen. An American perspective was outlined by Prof. Vincent Tinto, Syracuse University, New York. Prof. Tinto's address, and presentations by other delegates can be accessed on this page of the HEA website. On a related note, readers may be interested to know that the full programme has been announced for the upcoming ESRI Higher Education Policy Conference on November 16th.