This strength also reflects a deep commitment to service. While in 2025, 84% of authors rated their publishing experience with Springer Nature as excellent or good, the figure was 93% among JOPE authors. JOPE authors also stated:

• “The editors managed the peer review process well” (93%).
• “The editorial advice and comments throughout the process helped to improve the paper” (100%).

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The authors

Cynthia Bansak is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University. Prior to her current position, she was a professor at San Diego State University and an Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at San Diego and a B.A. in economics from Yale University. 

Nicole B. Simpson is the W Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics at Colgate University and the current department chair. She has been an Economics professor at Colgate since 2001. She has a PhD from the University of Iowa and a BA in economics from the University of St Thomas.

Madeline Zavodny is the Donna L. Harper and First Coast Systems Professor of Economics at the University of North Florida. She previously taught at Occidental College and Agnes Scott College as well as worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She has a PhD from MIT and a BA in economics from Claremont McKenna College.

The INTERVIEW

1. Purpose: What gap in how immigration economics is usually taught does this book try to fill, and what do you want a student to be able to achieve (analytically) after finishing it? 

• Cynthia: The three of us found while teaching undergraduates that there wasn’t a book that provided a thorough introduction to immigration from an economic perspective that was aimed at students taking an undergraduate or introductory course on the topic. We wanted to fill that gap.

• Nicole: Overall, we want to show our students how useful economics can be in analyzing complex social issues such as immigration. And we want to get them excited to learn more about immigration so that they are informed world citizens. Students will be able to apply the supply and demand model to understand how immigration affects a myriad of markets, from labor markets to housing to ethnic food. We also expect students to be able to explain the potential macroeconomic determinants and effects of immigration. We want students to be able to distinguish carefully between correlation and causation and to begin to understand how economists evaluate causal claims regarding the impact of immigration. And we hope students will be able to explain immigration policy in major destination countries and some of the effects of those policies.

2. Textbook level: What prerequisites are you assuming (micro, labor, international, econometrics), and what does ‘success’ look like for an undergraduate vs a master’s student using the book? 

• Nicole: Students who have had an introductory course in economics have enough foundation for our book. Students who have had a course in labor or econometrics will find the material easier to tackle, but students who have not should be fine. The book includes appendices that review basic topics, like supply and demand and producer and consumer surplus, and appendices that cover more advanced material, like the CES production function and identification strategies.

• Madeline: We hope that students who take a course that uses this book will be better equipped to apply economic tools – the “economic way of thinking” – to questions related to immigration. They should be better able to support arguments and claims regarding immigration using economic theory and evidence after taking this class. Master’s-level students and advanced economics undergraduates should have a better understanding of how economists attempt to evaluate causal claims regarding the economics of immigration and be better equipped to read research papers on immigration.

3. What’s new vs 2nd edition: What are the 3–4 most substantive changes in the third edition (new chapters/sections, new datasets, new policy episodes), and what motivated each change? 

• Cynthia: I’d say first and foremost, the 3rd edition of the textbook places a significantly greater emphasis on refugees and asylum seekers. The sizable increase in forced displacement since the 2010s motivated us to shift our focus towards including refugees and asylees in our analysis of the economics of immigration, despite these groups not directly being categorized as economic migrants.
  
  Second, we’ve added to our coverage of European immigration reflecting the central role that Europe has played in recent migration flows, particularly during the Syrian refugee crisis and the more recent war in Ukraine.
  
  Third, we added more to our coverage of climate migration, political outcomes related to migration, and innovation by immigrants. These are areas of emerging research and increased policy relevance.
  
  Lastly, we restructured the text to be more policy-oriented, with a focus on global policy. For example, we added recent changes in immigration policies in Japan and Korea – countries with historically few immigrants – and document important effects on population growth and fertility rates in those countries. In response to instructor feedback, we’ve moved our chapter on global immigration policies before those of US policies.

4. Competitors and differentiation: Which competing textbooks would you expect instructors to compare you to, and where is your value-add with respect to coverage breadth, theory-first framing, empirical identification, or policy institutions?

• Madeline: We wrote the textbook because we perceived a gap in the market, particularly for undergraduate students. There are at least two excellent books aimed at more advanced students: Örn Bodvarsson & Hendrik van den Berg’s The Economics of Immigration: Theory and Policy seems to be aimed at graduate students, and George Borjas’s Immigration Economics is probably best suited to PhD students and faculty. In addition, Amelie Constant & Klaus F. Zimmermann’s International Handbook on the Economics of Migration and Barry Chiswick & Paul Miller’s Handbook of the Economics of International Migration are terrific resources for PhD students and faculty. Like us, however, those books are all becoming older – this third edition of our textbook brings in more recent studies and covers immigration policy as of 2024. Our approach is grounded in theory, supported by data, with dashes of policy sprinkled throughout and then two chapters devoted to policy toward the end of the book.

• Cynthia: We all assign complementary books when teaching this course, either requiring all students to read them or giving a list and having students pick one or two and complete an assignment related to the book. This can be a great way for faculty to add country-specific material. Books we have assigned include Tara Watson & Kalee Thompson’s The Border Within, Jason DeParle’s A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, and Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here.

5. Geographic scope (U.S. vs rest of world): Your description emphasizes cross-country policy comparisons and recent European policy changes: how systematically do you cover Europe, Asia, and Australia, and where do you think the U.S.-centric evidence base does ‘not travel well’ ? 

• Madeline: All three of us teach in the United States, so the book includes a lot of U.S. coverage, but it also discusses immigration patterns, policy, and impacts in Canada and much of Europe. There is a fair amount about Australia and New Zealand, in part because they have such interesting migration policies. The book has less coverage of Asia, Latin America, and Africa, mainly because there is less research that is published in English and relatively easily accessible about those areas. We would like to include more discussion of non-Western areas and the global South if we do a 4^th edition and would be delighted to have other GLO fellows send us their research or let us know about studies we should incorporate.
  
  I think one area where the U.S. experience is quite different from a lot of Europe is with regard to immigrants and crime. As Chapter 14 discusses, the evidence for the U.S. is clear and compelling that immigration does not increase crime, particularly violent crime. Evidence for some European countries seems more mixed. Public perceptions of the impact of immigration on crime are related to how people vote, so crime is an important issue for researchers to study carefully.

• Cynthia: A couple of areas come to mind and as Madeline mentioned, we hope to increase coverage of these areas and point out these differences in future iterations of our textbook. An area that may not generalize well is the treatment of (or lack of focus on) informal labor markets. Much of the U.S. literature assumes high levels of formal employment and enforced labor laws. However, large informal sectors impact how immigrants work, earn income, and interact with native-born workers in many other parts of the world. Second, in many parts of the “Global South,” internal migration is more prevalent than international migration, particularly in China. The current focus on the decision to migrate abroad may not translate well to contexts where the decision to migrate is more local (rural to urban) or seasonal.

• Nicole: In Chapter 14 of the third edition, we added more findings about how immigrants impact voting outcomes and natives’ attitudes towards immigration. There is a lot of exciting new work coming out of Europe about how immigrants affect political outcomes. Our sense is that these results may be unique to Europe and may not be generalizable to other contexts. It’s too early to say, as we need more research in countries like Canada, the U.S., Australia, Japan, etc., to fully understand the effects.

6. Internal migration: Do you use internal migration as a benchmark case for the models and empirics (e.g., selection, adjustment, local labor markets), or do you treat it as conceptually different, and why? 

• Nicole: The book discusses internal migration, particularly in the U.S. and China, and points out that internal migration is similar to international migration but, in most cases, has lower migration costs – there are usually fewer legal barriers and lower psychic costs, for example, if someone is moving within the same country instead of to another country. Most domestic students can relate easily to internal migration, while international students add their own experiences to the class. In addition, understanding the response in native internal mobility when immigrants enter or exit a local market is essential to accurately capturing the economic effects of immigration.

7. Net benefits question: If a policymaker asks ‘is immigration good for the economy?,’ what’s your disciplined answer in terms of (I) aggregate surplus, (ii) distributional impacts, and (iii) fiscal incidence? 

• Cynthia: To answer this question and its subcomponents, I would stress that a disciplined answer must be grounded in evidence rather than anecdotes and people’s perceptions. I’d say that the large body of empirical work finds that immigration generates net gains overall, but there are winners and losers. The aggregate surplus depends on the size of the immigrant flows, the elasticity of labor demand, substitutability vs. complementarity of immigrants, the timing (capital adjustment), and skill composition. Estimates of the immigration surplus tend to be positive but small relative to the size of the economy. The fiscal incidence depends on the time period under study, the methodology utilized, the region under focus, and the polices in place that provide (or prohibit) government services to immigrants. Our textbook aims to cover these topics in Chapter 1 (Immigration Surplus), Chapters 4-6 (Selection), and Chapter 10 (Fiscal Effects).

• Nicole: When I teach this course, I emphasize the importance of assumptions. Economic analysis of immigration almost always hinges on the assumptions that are being made (explicitly or implicitly) by the researcher. And bias can dictate some of the assumptions being made. Students must be skeptical by making sure that the assumptions are clear and make sense in the relevant context. I always tell my students to think about the questions in unbiased ways and to question if the assumptions are driving the results. The bottom line is that there are always winners and losers with immigration; who wins and who loses and by how much depends on the assumptions and the quality and quantity of the data being analyzed.

• Madeline: (i) More people means higher aggregate output and income. Whether it means high per-capita output and income is trickier and depends in part on the characteristics of the immigrants, but in most countries this has been positive since immigrants tend to be working age. (ii) The distributional impacts depend on the characteristics of the immigrants relative to the native-born population. The economic benefits are largest when immigrants are very different from the people already there, but some of the people already there who are the most similar to immigrants may experience adverse impacts. But I think, at its heart, most objections to immigration are about culture, not economics. (iii) The fiscal impact depends on how the fiscal system is designed – a system that has relatively limited redistribution, like the U.S., may gain nationally, but areas that receive large numbers of immigrants may bear considerable fiscal costs.

8. From selection to assimilation mechanisms: Across your chapters on selection, assimilation, and the second generation, which mechanisms do you treat as first-order for outcomes (human capital, language, networks, discrimination, legal status)? 

• Madeline: The book covers human capital in considerable depth since education is one of the best predictors of how well immigrants will do in the labor market. Fluency in the destination language tends to be correlated with education, and the evidence on age at migration and critical windows for becoming fluent in a language is compelling. We also devote a lot of attention to networks, particularly with regard to selection and assimilation of the first generation, since the evidence is clear that networks influence the volume and characteristics of immigrants. We do not devote much attention to discrimination, which I think is an under-researched area when it comes to immigrants. Legal status affects assimilation, and parents’ legal status tends to affect their children’s outcomes – the book discusses legal status some with regard to assimilation and other outcomes, but we tend to focus more on it in the policy chapters.

9. Beyond wages: “In ‘effects on other markets in the destination,’ you go beyond labor markets: what do you regard as the most credible findings on the housing/consumption/industry mix, and what identification pitfalls should readers be most wary of?”

• Nicole: Recent research on the effects of immigration on the housing markets is really interesting. The housing sector is a very important sector in most advanced economies’ macroeconomic situations. Immigrants are often important contributors to the supply of housing but can also have nontrivial effects on housing demand. The elasticity of housing supply is especially important in estimating the quantitative effects of immigrants on rents and housing stocks, but varies across countries, regions, and cities. How natives respond to changes in local housing markets is critical in measuring the impacts. So far, the evidence is mixed, with some research finding sizable effects on house prices and rents, while others find negligible effects. Importantly, the general equilibrium effects must be considered.

10. Source countries and new frontiers: When you turn to source-country effects and ‘frontiers’ (e.g., remittances, brain drain, trafficking, climate/forced migration), where does the welfare calculus genuinely hinge on parameter values or institutional context rather than ideology, and what research design do you think will move that debate next? 

• Cynthia: This is a complicated question. For remittances, the key parameters are how much remittances increase productive capital versus increase consumption, reduce labor supply, and crowd out public funding. Some research shows that remittances increase schooling, health, and insurance against shocks, while other research finds that remittances can lead to inflation and increased dependence on emigration. For brain drain, the main issue is what happens to the domestic human capital stock per capita due to emigration of skilled workers. Ultimately, these are empirical questions where the answer may depend on the specific immigration flow. Lastly, while possibly adding to the immigration surplus, irregular migration coupled with enforcement efforts can lead to increased costs of trafficking and dangerous crossings, which can worsen welfare. Going forward, I believe research that emphasizes both the origin and destination simultaneously would help policy makers coordinate mutually beneficial policies. Ideally, researchers can examine a natural experiment that cleanly identifies a migration shock, can measure who leaves and who stays, and can examine the impact on wages, public goods, human capital formation, and household welfare in a more general-equilibrium-informed empirical analysis.

Klaus: Thank you very much for a great exchange. Best success for your book.

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*****

The Editor-in-Chief and the Board of Editors are proud to announce that the Journal of Population Economics has been upgraded from A to A* on the ABDC Journal Quality List, the highest ranking a journal can achieve, reserved for a select group of journals demonstrating truly exceptional global impact.

This recognition is especially timely, reflecting the journal’s commitment to high-quality research. JOPE has been firing on all cylinders for some time, including:

606,400+ downloads in 2025 with over 1,200 submissions and a final acceptance rate of 7%.

Ranked 2nd out of 140 journals in demography (CiteScore 2024, Scopus) and in the top 10% of all economics journals worldwide

Over 50% of articles published in 2025 were linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: evidence of research that matters beyond academia!

44% (2024) and 79% (2023) greater citation impact than the average journal in its category

An h-index of 91 (reported by Scopus in 2025) meaning that 91 of all published articles have each been cited more than 91 times

A five-year Impact Factor of 4.3 and a CiteScore of 8.7 (both measured in 2025 for 2024) further underscore the journal’s standing.

The A* designation places the Journal of Population Economics among the most elite publications across all business and economics disciplines globally. It is the culmination of decades of rigorous, policy-relevant research on the forces that shape human societies, namely fertility, migration, ageing, labour markets, health, and beyond.

To our authors, reviewers, editorial board, and readers: this is your achievement. Thank you for making this journal a home for the world’s best population economics research.

The bar is high. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

#PopulationEconomics #ABDC #AStar #JournalRanking #ResearchExcellence #Economics #Demography #AcademicPublishing #SDGs

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Keynote speakers are David Autor (MIT) and Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics).

Contributed papers are invited to cover human resources issues broadly defined about labor, population, development, family, fertility, migration, refugees, health, crime, conflict, religion, and behavioral economics among other topics. Special interests include papers on China or contributions related to the themes of the JOPE Collections.

Submissions: Please submit complete manuscripts or extended abstracts by March 23, 2026.

• International submissions should be directed to conference@glabor.org, while submissions from Mainland China should be directed to junoqiu@foxmail.com.
• Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 10, 2026. Participants based in Mainland China are exempt from the registration fee upon acceptance.

Event details: The event will be held in-person only.  Present JOPE Editors may recommend authors to submit their presented papers for review at the Journal passing the desk-rejection stage. IESR, as the local host, will provide hotel recommendations and invitations for visa applications, the conference venue, and meals. Participants must cover their travel expenses. The fee per presented paper is € 500 for international participants (€ 250 for students and participants from low-middle income economies, following the World Bank definition).

To join the GLO, please visit: https://glabor.org/join-the-glo/

Conference organizing committee: Siyu Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Max Tani, Sen Xue, and Klaus F. Zimmermann

For Logistic inquiries, please contact: Xiangyan (Juno) Qiu, junoqiu@foxmail.com

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Papers

1722 Women in Power: Parliamentary Action, Social Attitudes, and Gender-Based Crime – Download PDF
by Do, Quynh & Mahmood, Rafat & Mavisakalyan, Astghik & Tyers, Leigh

1721 Mental Health Behind Bars: Evidence from Pakistani Prisons – Download PDF
by Andlib, Zubaria

1720 The Influence of Locus of Control on the Uptakes of Cancer Screening: Evidence from the United States – Download PDF
by Robone, Silvana & Meregaglia, Michela & Yebetchou, Rostand

1719 Why are women’s employment rates declining in Egypt? – Download PDF
by Krafft, Caroline

1718 Migration Reform and Fertility: Evidence from Rural China – Download PDF
by Jin, Wenchao & Jin, Zhangfeng

1717 Earning While Learning: How to Run Batched Bandit Experiments – Download PDF
by Kemper, Jan & Rostam-Afschar, Davud

1716 Risk Adjustment for ADRD in Medicare Advantage and Health Care Experiences – Download PDF
by Fu, Wei & Qian, Yuting & Karimi, Seyed & Zarei, Hamid & Chen, Xi

1715 When the State Takes Over: Nationalization, Firm Performance, and Political Backlash – Download PDF
by González, Felipe & Prem, Mounu

1714 Cultural Evolution and the Deep Roots of Cooperation: A Unified Perspective – Download PDF
by Galor, Oded

1713 Burning Rage: How Heat Shapes Gender-Based Violence – Download PDF
by Aina, Carmen & Parisi, Lavinia & Picchio, Matteo

1712 Female political leaders and public funding attraction: Evidence from Italian municipalities – Download PDF
by Picchio, Matteo & Santolini, Raffaella

1711 From Past Ventures to Present Success: Does Human Capital Drive Performance in Entrepreneurship? – Download PDF
by Rai, Sabhya

1710 Using Subjective Well-being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress – Download PDF
by Burger, Martijn J. & Courchesne, Sarah & Greyling, Talita & O’Connor, Kelsey J. & Rossouw, Stephanie & Sarracino, Francesco & Veenhoven, Ruut

1709 Do Firms Share their Profits Equally with Women and Men? The Role of Human Capital, Managerial Positions and Unions – Download PDF
by Pineda-Hernández, Kevin & Rycx, François & Volral, Mélanie & Waroquier, Alexandre

1708 State and Local Tax Policy in a Time of Telework – Download PDF
by Agrawal, David R. & Chen, Xinyu

1707 The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods – Download PDF
by Cavallo, Mariagrazia & Dhuey, Elizabeth & Fumarco, Luca & Halewyck, Levi & ter Meulen, Simon

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The Project

With a core basis in labor economics, human resources, demography, and econometrics, it will provide a large and complete summary and evaluation of the scientific state of the art. Some chapters have a policy focus or a multidisciplinary perspective. Long survey chapters on core knowledge are combined with shorter frontier research chapters. See below for a listing of all section topics with links to the published and requested materials.

This innovative research handbook contains 30 sections with about 20 chapters per section and an average of 20 pages in the range of 5,000 – 15,000 words per (10-30 pages) article. Each chapter is freshly produced, discussed, and evaluated for quality, and immediately published on the Springer Nature Handbook website, and will/can be regularly updated. A hardcover version of the handbook is also scheduled for 2027.

About 400 chapters are already available online or in production and will be available soon: List of published papers. The articles are divided into topical sections for orientation, as shown below.

Springer is part of Springer Nature, one of the world’s leading global research, educational, and professional publishers, created in 2015 through the combination of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education, and Springer Science+Business Media. The Handbook project is further supported by the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

What is Expected?

• Expected is an academic review and evaluation of the state-of-the-art of the literature, NOT a research article, focusing on all global knowledge with no focus on a particular country or region. The survey article can be written alone or with co-author(s) within a period of about 6 months.
• Quality control is taken by section editors, anonymous reviewers, and/or workshop discussions of draft papers.
• Technical instructions for authors are available HERE.
• Chapter proposals are invited and should contain title, abstract, link to CV or website revealing details of academic qualifications for the purpose. We look for senior authors at best in the suggested fields of study.
• Submit by email to office@glabor.org with the subject title “Handbook Proposal – Section Name”.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS: Collection of articles for the first edition of the Handbook closes in 2026. The entire project will be published as hardcover in 2027. If you have a good suggestion, there might be still a slot available. Contact office@glabor.org

What Topic to Submit?

• Submissions are possible for all sections below; when you click the section title, you will find lists of published articles as well as those titles in preparation and further suggestions for chapters. If you have any alternatives, please feel free to suggest them. SUBMIT indicates that suggestions are particularly welcome.

Handbook Part I

• Aging SUBMIT
• Behavioral Economics
• Conflict SUBMIT
• Covid-19
• Crime SUBMIT
• Development and Labor SUBMIT
• Discrimination SUBMIT
• Education; schooling; human capital SUBMIT
• Entrepreneurship SUBMIT
• Environment SUBMIT
• Family Economics
• Gender
• Household Economics
• Health SUBMIT
• Inequality and Poverty SUBMIT

Handbook Part II

• Institutions and International Organizations SUBMIT
• Macroeconomics of Human Resources SUBMIT
• Methods and Data SUBMIT
• Migration
• Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management SUBMIT
• Political Economy of Human Resources SUBMIT
• Program and Policy Evaluations SUBMIT
• Regional Labor, Urban Economics and Economic Geography
• Religion
• Risky Behaviors SUBMIT
• Sexuality SUBMIT
• Technological Changes and the Labor Market
• Wages SUBMIT
• Welfare, Well-Being, Happiness
• Worker representation, labor-management relations; labor standards SUBMIT

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Just published: Sharma, A., Sinha, K. (2026). The Economics of a Sin Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_298-1

ABSTRACT. The increasing global prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity, represents a major public health challenge. This chapter reviews the effectiveness of price-based policy interventions, with a focus on taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), as a strategy to address these health concerns. By analyzing the evidence from simulation-based studies and real-world implementation, the chapter explores the application of economic theory to understand consumer behavior and the potential impacts of SSB taxes. Key considerations include the price sensitivity of SSB consumption, the substitution effects—both desirable and undesirable—on other food and beverage choices, and the distributional consequences across income levels and age groups. Additionally, the chapter evaluates the health benefits, such as reductions in obesity and chronic disease rates, as well as the economic benefits stemming from lower healthcare expenditures. The evidence indicates that well-implemented SSB taxes can effectively reduce consumption, improve population health outcomes, and generate significant government revenue, positioning them as a promising tool in the global effort to combat the NCD epidemic.

GLO Fellow Anurag Sharma is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. GLO Fellow Kompal Sinha is a Professor of Economics at Macquarie University, Australia, an Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and a Section Editor “Health” of the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics published by Springer Nature.

Related chapter in the Handbook

Frisvold, D., Lensing, C. (2021). Economics of Obesity. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_134-1

ABSTRACT. This chapter provides an overview of the levels, trends, causes, and consequences of obesity, related market failures, and the evidence of the impact of policies that could potentially address the market failures. More than 40% of adults in the United States are obese, and obesity-related healthcare accounts for over 20% of total annual medical expenditures. The decrease in the price of calorie-dense foods, which led to an increase in average calories consumed, is a primary cause of the rise in obesity since the 1970s. There are also significant market failures associated with obesity, including negative externalities due to pooled health insurance and asymmetric information between food producers and consumers. The presence of market failures provides support for government policies aimed at decreasing and preventing obesity. Public policy tactics to address this issue include price-based, information-based, and school-based policies. Of these, school-based policies may be the most effective as they help form healthy nutrition habits and prevent obesity in adulthood when healthcare costs are much higher. Overall, obesity rates remain high and continued government intervention is necessary to improve the market failures related to this epidemic.

Obesity Epidemic in Germany

These findings support a recent initiative of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. A Leopoldina “Policy Brief” of 21 January 2026 is recommending comprehensive measures, including a tax on sugary and fatty foods, to fight the obesity epidemic in Germany. MORE DETAILS.

Ends;

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The past year concluded with GLO Bonn 2025, the network’s flagship event, supported by the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE). For a detailed report on this impressive gathering, please see LINK.

NOW: Please save the dates for GLO Bonn 2026.

• November 30 to December 4, 2026, once again in hybrid form, both in Bonn and globally.
• The event will take place at the dawn of two major milestones, the 40th volume of JOPE and the 10th anniversary of GLO, both to be celebrated in 2027.
• November 30 to December 2, 2026 will see presentations in-person only with world-wide online access hosted with full hotel capacity by the Gustav Stresemann Institut (GSI) in the heart of Bonn. A great chance to foster academic exchange even after the hour and to bring partners to visit the former German capital in the Christmas season.
• December 3-4, 2026 will be online only with world-wide coverage.
• The program will feature Invited and Contributed Paper Sessions, GLO Job Market Sessions, the GLO VirtYS Session, Special JOPE Paper Sessions, and several Keynote Speeches.

We invite contributions addressing human resources issues in a broad sense, including topics related to labor, population, development, family, fertility, migration, refugees, health, crime, conflict, religion, and behavioral economics.

We are particularly interested in papers focusing on Africa, India, China, globalization, or topics represented in the JOPE Collections.

A Call for Papers will be out in time.

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The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities to present new research, exchange information, and discuss current issues. Although the focus is on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly encouraged. The conference will be held as a hybrid event, allowing participants to present via the Zoom platform and in person.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is March 17, 2026.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than March 17, 2026.

For submission, please visit the website at
https://ebesweb.org/55th-ebes-conference-budapest/abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers will be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences. Furthermore, the qualified papers from the conference will be published in the regular issues of Eastern European Economics (SSCI & Scopus) and Singapore Economic Review (SSCI & Scopus) after a fast-track review.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in a USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: April 16-18, 2026
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 17, 2026
Reply-by: March 19, 2026*
Registration Deadline: March 25, 2026
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: March 25, 2026
Announcement of the Program: April 3, 2026
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): March 26, 2026**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: July 15, 2026

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before March 16, 2026, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by March 25, 2026.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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Papers

1706 The Legacy of China’s One-Child Policy on Human Capital: How Being Raised by an Only Child Affects Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Development – Download PDF
by Feng, Shuaizhang & Gan, Yu & Han, Yujie & Kautz, Tim

Abstract. China’s One-Child Policy (OCP) restricted most couples to a single birth, leading to a rapid increase in the prevalence of only children. Using longitudinal data and a regression discontinuity design around the policy’s start, we estimate the effects on grandchildren’s human capital. We find that children with only-child mothers perform significantly better in cognitive skills (0.71 SD) and noncognitive skills (0.50 SD) than comparable peers. The effects are larger for boys, consistent with son preference, and for those with less-educated grandparents, for whom quantity-quality trade-offs are more applicable. Additionally, we find that only-child parents have higher educational attainment and provide more favorable home environments, which may explain their children’s advantages in human capital outcomes. These findings suggest that, in the presence of quantity-quality trade-offs, fertility restrictions can improve human capital across multiple generations.

1705 Tax expenditures and redistribution – The case of Portugal – Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & Berdeal, Silvia Navarro

Abstract. This paper assesses the fiscal and distributional effects of personal income tax expenditures in Portugal using EUROMOD and 2022 EU-SILC microdata. We compare the 2023 tax-benefit system with a counterfactual scenario in which tax expenditures are removed to estimate first-round impacts. We find that tax expenditures account for almost 40% of personal income tax revenues and predominantly benefit middle- and higher-income households, with large variation in redistributive effectiveness across instruments. While the Net Minimum Income Guarantee is progressive and cost-efficient in reducing inequality, most work- and pensionrelated allowances deliver limited equity gains, suggesting scope for reform.

1704 The Wealth of Nations: Origins of Prosperity and Seeds of Inequality – Download PDF
by Galor, Oded

Abstract. What ignited humanity’s momentous ascent from millennia of stagnation to an era of sustained economic growth? And what are the roots of the vast disparities in the wealth of nations? These enduring mysteries, which have preoccupied scholars across generations, lie at the core of Unified Growth Theory. This encompassing framework captures the evolution of societies over the entire course of human history and identifies the universal wheels of change that governed humanity’s long journey, propelled the growth process, and shaped inequality across the globe. The theory uncovers the forces underlying the dramatic transformation in living standards over the past two centuries, emerging from an economic ice age of near stagnation, while highlighting the enduring historical roots of the immense divergence in the prosperity of nations. It suggests that forces set in motion in the distant past played a pivotal role in shaping development across the globe and remain essential for the design of effective policies that foster economic progress and mitigate inequality in the wealth of nations.

1703 The Returns to Education in Arkansas: Evidence from the 1987 Compulsory Education Law – Download PDF
by Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Rivera-Olvera, Angelica

Abstract. This paper estimates the returns to education in Arkansas-one of the last states to extend compulsory schooling-using ACS 2023 data and the 1987 Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL) reform as an instrument. OLS estimates imply returns of 9.5-10.4 percent per year of schooling. The CSL reform increased schooling among compliers by 0.67-0.73 years and yields IV returns of 10.4-11.7 percent, exceeding OLS estimates. The results indicate that those compelled to remain in school benefited most, consistent with global evidence on higher causal returns for disadvantaged students.

1702 Beyond lockdowns: work-from-home, mental health, and the moderating roles of intensity, job control and social support – Download PDF
by Bilgrami, Anam

Abstract. During and shortly after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns were expressed that working from home (WFH) was creating a ‘mental health crisis’. Australia experienced a three-phase ‘WFH experiment’, with widespread high-intensity WFH imposed by lockdowns in 2020, deepened restrictions in 2021, and a transition to flexible work arrangements and more autonomy in 2022 as vaccination rates increased. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, this study estimates the impact of WFH on worker mental health across these phases. Findings show that WFH led to a modest, statistically significant deterioration in average worker mental health outcomes during the lockdown years (2020-2021), particularly among women. Negative effects were present in workers across the social support and job control spectrum, suggesting limited buffering capacity to counter the stress of lockdown restrictions. However, by 2022, the negative effects of WFH dissipated with positive effects for those WFH 25-50% of time, indicating that pandemic-related lockdowns, rather than WFH itself, were primarily responsible for mental health declines. The exception was workers with low job control, and females with dependents, who continued to experience negative effects, highlighting that job autonomy and unequal caregiving responsibilities may shape longer-term wellbeing outcomes.

1701 Migration and Population Growth’s Impact on Natural Resources and Welfare: The Role of Manufacturing’s Returns to Scale – Download PDF
by Schiff, Maurice

Abstract. I examine the impact of population growth and endogenous migration on renewable natural resources (NR) and welfare in a general equilibrium model with two sectors – a commodity and a manufacturing sector, and with two inputs – labor and NR. Under population growth and no migration, a country’s NR and welfare are unchanged (increase) (decline and eventually collapse) over time for constant (increasing) (decreasing) returns to scale in the manufacturing sector, i.e., for R = (>)(<)1. Migration’s impact is more complex. For instance, migration is nil under R = 1. It results in convergence (divergence) between home and host countries under R < (>)1, and benefits both countries only if R < (>) 1 in the home (host) country. Thus, ignoring how the level of the manufacturing sector’s returns to scale affects migration flows and their impact on NR and welfare is likely to lead to erroneous conclusions and policy implications.

1700 Can Trade Benefit Natural Resources under Population Growth? The Role of Manufacturing’s Returns to Scale – Download PDF
by Schiff, Maurice

Abstract. I examine whether trade can improve the impact of population growth on natural resources (NR) and welfare over time. Under autarky, population growth results in NR and welfare collapse over time for any value of the returns to scale in the manufacturing sector, R. Under trade, NR and welfare are unchanged (increase) (collapse) over time for R = (>)(<)1– though the decrease in welfare under R < 1 is dampened relative to autarky. Thus, countries experiencing rapid population growth may benefit from opening up to trade.

1699 Green Investments and Worker Voice – Download PDF
by Bisi, Davide & Landini, Fabio & Rinaldi, Riccardo

Abstract. The interaction between organised employee representation (ER) and firms’ engagement in the green transition remains insufficiently understood. Theoretically, two opposing mechanisms may operate. In the bargaining view, representation can slow green investments by increasing adjustment costs and exposing firms to rent-seeking pressures. In contrast, the employee voice perspective holds that ER enables sustainability by facilitating information exchange, eliciting workers’ environmental preferences, and supporting joint problem-solving when organisational adaptation is required. We test these predictions using survey and administrative data from nearly 2,000 firms in Emilia-Romagna. Firms with ER are systematically more likely to pursue green investments, especially in climate mitigation, water use, circularity, and pollution prevention. These results also hold when accounting for the endogeneity of ER via IV. Consistent with the voice mechanism, the association between ER and green investments is stronger in firms employing younger and more educated workers, who are more likely to hold proenvironmental preferences and contribute specialised knowledge relevant for organisational change. Taken together, our findings challenge the view that organised labour inhibits the green transition. Instead, ER emerges as a strategic policy lever that can foster decarbonisation pathways that are technologically feasible, socially negotiated, and democratically anchored at the workplace level.

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Keynote speakers are David Autor (MIT) and Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics).

Contributed papers are invited to cover human resources issues broadly defined about labor, population, development, family, fertility, migration, refugees, health, crime, conflict, religion, and behavioral economics among other topics. Special interests include papers on China or contributions related to the themes of the JOPE Collections.

Submissions: You are invited to submit complete manuscripts or extended abstracts by March 23, 2026. International submissions should be directed to conference@glabor.org, while submissions from Mainland China should be directed to junoqiu@foxmail.com. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 10, 2026. Participants based in Mainland China are exempt from the registration fee upon acceptance.

Event details: The event will be held in-person only.  Present JOPE Editors may recommend authors to submit their presented papers for review at the Journal passing the desk-rejection stage. IESR, as the local host, will provide hotel recommendations and invitations for visa applications, the conference venue, and meals. Participants must cover their travel expenses. The fee per presented paper is € 500 for international participants (€ 250 for students and participants from low-middle income economies, following the World Bank definition).

To join the GLO, please visit: https://glabor.org/join-the-glo/

Conference organizing committee: Siyu Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Max Tani, Sen Xue, and Klaus F. Zimmermann

For Logistic inquiries, please contact: Xiangyan (Juno) Qiu, junoqiu@foxmail.com

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1698 The Impact of Personality Traits on Sexual Satisfaction and Frequency of Sex: Does It Differ between Single and Partnered Individuals? – Download PDF
by Jirjahn, Uwe & Ottenbacher, Martha

Using representative data from Germany, this study compares the role of the Big Five personality traits in the sex life of single and partnered individuals. While extraversion has a positive influence on the sex life of both single and partnered individuals, the influence is much stronger for singles. By contrast, the positive role of conscientiousness in sexual fulfillment is stronger for partnered than for single individuals. Openness to experience and agreeableness play a positive role only in the sex life of partnered individuals. Neuroticism has a detrimental impact on people’s sex life with the impact being stronger for singles than for partnered individuals. The empirical findings fit our theoretical considerations. Personality traits play different roles in the sex life of single and partnered individuals as the sexual relationships of these individuals are characterized by different time horizons.

1697 Banking on Connectivity: Internet Exposure and Women’s Financial Autonomy – Download PDF
by Gupta, Sagnik Kumar & Ojha, Manini & Dhamija, Gaurav

1696 Rewiring Gender Norms: Causal Evidence on Internet Exposure and Justification of Intimate Partner Violence – Download PDF
by Ojha, Manini & Gupta, Sagnik Kumar & Dhamija, Gaurav

1695 Reconstructing Two Decades of Inequality in the Sahel Region – Download PDF
by Betti, Gianni & Crescenzi, Federico & Dang, Hai-Anh & Molini, Vasco & Mori, Lorenzo

1694 Fertility responses to tropical cyclones: Causal evidence and mechanisms – Download PDF
by Nguyen, Ha Trong & Mitrou, Francis

In light of growing concerns over escalating natural disaster risks and persistently low fertility rates, this paper quantifies the causal impacts of tropical cyclones and identifies the pathways through which they influence childbearing decisions among Australians of reproductive age. Using an individual fixed effects model and exogenous variation in cyclone exposure, we find a robust and substantial decline in fertility, occurring only after the most severe category 5 cyclones, with the effect weakening as distance from the cyclone’s eye increases. We find no evidence of delayed cyclone effects, indicating that the fertility loss attributable to these most severe cyclones is permanent. Our findings are robust to extensive validity checks, including a falsification test and various randomization tests. The fertility decline is most pronounced among younger adults, individuals with lower educational attainment, those childless at baseline, and those lacking prior private health or residential insurance. While physical health, financial constraints, and migration appear unlikely to drive the effect, the evidence points to reduced family formation, increased marital breakdown, child mortality, cyclone-induced home damage, elevated psychological stress, and heightened risk perceptions as plausible mechanisms.

1693 Understanding labor market transitions in the Green Economy: A synthetic panel approach for Colombia – Download PDF
by Caiza-Guamán, Pamela & García-Suaza, Andrés & Sepúlveda Rico, Carlos

1692 The Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Jobs: Evidence from an AI Subsidy Program – Download PDF
by Hellsten, Mark & Khanna, Shantanu & Lodefalk, Magnus & Yakymovych, Yaroslav

1691 Holy words, worldly deeds: The role of Pope Francis in Violence Against Women – Download PDF
by Mavisakalyan, Astghik & Sotirakopoulos, Panagiotis & Tobden, Tobden

This study examines the influence of religious leaders on social attitudes by analysing Pope Francis’ impact on beliefs about the justification of violence against women (VAW). Using a content analysis of his speeches, we document sustained engagement with topics related to women’s rights. Exploiting variation in speech timing, religious affiliation, and proximity to the Vatican, we find that greater exposure to the Pope’s statements is associated with lower acceptance of VAW. The effect appears to operate through heightened salience of religious values, reinforcing moral norms, and immediate increases in online search activity and media coverage of VAW-related topics. These findings highlight the power of religious authority figures to shape social attitudes and public discourse on gender-based violence.

1690 The Protective Power of Connectivity: Internet Exposure and Intimate Partner Violence – Download PDF
by Dhamija, Gaurav & Gupta, Sagnik Kumar & Ojha, Manini

1689 Accounting for Empowerment? Examining Women’s Financial Inclusion in India – Download PDF
by Chauhan, Tarana

1688 Cheerful Discontent: Understanding the Well-being Paradox in Sub-Saharan Africa – Download PDF
by Greyling, Talita & Rossouw, Stephanie & Burger, Martijn J.

1687 Performance Appraisal and Quits: Does Performance Pay Add Anything? – Download PDF
by Heywood, John S. & Nießen, Anna

1686 Financialization, Personal Debt Burden, & the Black-White Pay Gap in the United States – Download PDF
by Gouzoulis, Giorgos & Papadopoulou, Aggela

1685 Shaped by Urban-Rural Divide and Skill: the Drivers of Internal Mobility in Italy – Download PDF
by Bergantino, Angela S. & Clemente, Antonello & Iandolo, Stefano & Turati, Riccardo

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The past year concluded with GLO Bonn 2025, the network’s flagship event, supported by the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE). For a detailed report on this impressive gathering, please see LINK. We are now preparing a number of activities for 2026, which will be announced in time. One will be GLO Bonn 2026.

Please save the dates for GLO Bonn 2026:
2–4 December 2026, once again in hybrid form, both in Bonn and globally. The event will take place at the dawn of two major milestones, the 40th volume of JOPE and the 10th anniversary of GLO, both to be celebrated in 2027.

The program will feature Invited and Contributed Paper Sessions, GLO Job Market Sessions, the GLO VirtYS Session, Special JOPE Paper Sessions, and several Keynote Speeches.

We will invite contributions addressing human resources issues in a broad sense, including topics related to labor, population, development, family, fertility, migration, refugees, health, crime, conflict, religion, and behavioral economics.

We are particularly interested in papers focusing on Africa, India, China, globalization, or topics represented in the JOPE Collections.

A Call for Papers will be out in time.

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Happy Holidays & Season’s Greetings!

Warm thanks for all your support in 2025. The year closed with GLO Bonn 2025, the network’s flagship event, supported by the Journal of Population Economics; for a detailed report, see LINK. Please save the dates for GLO Bonn 2026: 2–4 December 2026 (again in hybrid form).

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December 5, 2025. All sessions are CET Berlin.

—- 0:30 BREAK
1:00-03:00 CET  = 11:00-13:00 AEDT„Sydney II“. Australia-New Zealand-US West Coast & else
— Chair: Liwen Guo (University of New South Wales & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Max Tani (UNSW Canberra & GLO) ——— ROOM SYDNEY

• Maria Laura Di Tommaso (Università di Torino), Silvia Mendolia, Silvia Palmaccio, Giulia Savio (143)
  Is Physical Unattractiveness a Risk Factor for Sexual Violence Perpetration? Evidence from the U.S
• Husame Doganay, Tony Fang, Xingfei Liu (University of Alberta), Saba Ranjbar, Arthur Sweetman. (47)
  Earnings Assimilation in Canada (2006-2021): A Seemingly Unrelated Regression Approach
• Michael Windsor (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre), Astghik Mavisakalyan, Loan Vu, Alan Duncan. (68)
  Breathe In The Air: Institutional Quality, Political Participation and Air Pollution in Transition Countries
• Zhengwei YAN (Central University of Finance and Economics), Xu Zhang (Central University of Finance and Economics). (127-J)
  The Externalities of Private Tutoring on Students’ Academic and Noncognitive Outcomes: Evidence and Mechanisms

3:00 BREAK

3:30-5:30 CET = 8:00-10:00 am New Delhi “India” ——— ROOM INDIA
— Chair: Kompal Sinha (Macquarie University, JOPE Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)

• Shobhit Kulshreshtha, Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University), Padmaja Ayyagari. Later Sunset, Better Health? GLO Discussion Paper 1648
• Souvik Banerjee, Preeti Jaiswal (IIT Bombay), Sankar Mukhopadhyay (142-J)
  Motherhood and Labour Market Outcomes: Penalty or Premium?
• Kompal Sinha (Macquarie University). (48)
  The relationship between socioeconomic status and life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: results from the IndiQol Study.

6:00 – 8:00 CET = 13:00 – 15:00 Beijing time IESR (China) Invited Session ——— ROOM CHINA
— Chair: Xue Sen (IESR & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Juno (Xiangyan) Qiu (IESR)

• Hanming Fang, Jiayin Hu, Miao Yu (Peking University)
  Maternity Leave Extensions and Gender Gaps: Evidence from an Online Job Platform
• James Kai-sing Kung, Wenbing Wu (University of Melbourne)
  The Rise of the Chinese Clan
• Yunbo Liu, Zexuan Wang (Minzu University of China), Zesen Zhang, Jue Bai, Xiaoyang Ye
  Occupational Cognition and Employment Choices in Manufacturing: Evidence from the Information Intervention Experiment with Vocational College Students
• Xiaogang Li, Ze Song (Nankai University), Puyang Sun, Hong Zou
  Stagnation and Differentiation in Growth: Quality Effects of Consumer Goods for Chinese Households

8:30 – 10:30 Three parallel sessions

8:30 – 10:30 FERTILITY in-person Bonn P-S1-3. ——— ROOM 1
— Chair: Gylfi Zoega (University of Iceland & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Liwen Guo (University of New South Wales & GLO)

• Sua Kang (Korea University), Wookun Kim, Kanghyock Koh. (30)
  Childbirth, Baby Bonus, and Maternal Mental Health
• Vilmundur Torfason, Gylfi Zoega (University of Iceland) (69)
  The impact of economic and social factors on fertility in Iceland, 2014-2022
• Niko Chtouris (Senior Editor Springer Nature)
  Publishing with Springer Nature

GLO-supported book series in Population Economics:
Edumetrics. Measuring Human Capital for the 21st Century
Authors: Claude Diebolt, Nadir Altinok; forthcoming Springer 2026.

8:30 – 10:30 AFRICA I in-person Bonn P-S2-3. ——— ROOM 2
— Chair: Niels-Hugo Blunch (Washington and Lee University & GLO) 
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)

• Salamatu Nanna Adam (CERGE-EI). (73)
  Statistics and Stories: Experimental Evidence on HIV Testing in Ghana
• Adeola Oyenubi, Uma Kollamparambil, Lesego Masenya (University of the Witwatersrand). (93-J)
  Comparative Life Evaluation: A Relative Density Analysis of Native and Migrant Populations
• Giorgio d’Agostino, Donatella Lanari, Luca Pieroni (University of Perugia) (102)
  Shifting Attitudes: The Impact of COVID-19 on Perceptions towards Immigrants in Africa

8:30 – 10:30 POPULATION ECONOMICS online-only P-S3-3. ——— ROOM 3
— Chair: Shuaizhang Feng (IESR & Jinan University & JOPE Editor, GLO) 
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO)

• Sofya Feygenson (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Jun Hyung Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). (86)
  Unstable Jobs, Delayed Families: A Hidden Markov Model of Life-Course Transitions in South Korea
• Wenjun Zhao (Hitotsubashi University).(45-J)
  The Role of Collateral in Marriage: How Property Division upon Divorce Affects Household Labor Supply. 
• Bastien Bernela, Liliane Bonnal, Inès TOURE (Poitiers Economics Laboratory, University of Poitiers), and Ahmed Tritah. (148-J)
  Educational mismatch, spatial mobility, and wage inequality: Evidence from France young graduates
• Despina Gavresi (University of Luxembourg), Andreas Irmen, Anastasia Litina (70-J)
  Population Aging and the Rise of Populism in Europe

10:30 BREAK

11:00-13:00 Three parallel sessions

11:00-13:00 WELLBEING in-person Bonn P-S1-4. ——— ROOM 1
— Chair: Mehrzad B. Baktash (University of Trier & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Liwen Guo (University of New South Wales & GLO)

• Giulia Briselli (ESCP Business School), Wookun Kim (SMU, CESifo). (29)
  Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform: Marriage Market, Intra-Household Bargaining, and Well-Being.
• Mehrzad B. Baktash (University of Trier & GLO). (2)
  Home Alone? Work from Home and Loneliness.
• Olena Nizalova (University of Kent, VirtYS & GLO)
  GLO’s Young Scholar Monitoring Program (VirtYS)

GLO-supported book series in Population Economics:
Loneliness in Europe. Determinants, Risks and Interventions
Editors: Sylke V. Schnepf, Béatrice d’Hombres, Caterina Mauri; Springer 2024, Open Access

11:00-13:00 AFRICA II in-person Bonn P-S2-4. ——— ROOM 2
— Chair: Kirsten Schüttler, Chief Economist Africa, GIZ & GLO
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation and GLO)

• Niels-Hugo Blunch (Washington and Lee University & GLO) (112-J)
  Stairway to Heaven? Human Capital and Religion in Ghana
• Christiaan de Swardt (RWI-Leibniz Institute for Economic Research & Ruhr University Bochum), Renate Hartwig.  (17)
  The Marriage Squeeze: Measuring and Explaining Marriage Market Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Luca Buzzanca, Carlo Caporali (Gran Sasso Science Institute) (50-J)
  Drought, Mafia and Slavery: The Nigeria-Italy Case Study

11:00-13:00 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT online-only P-S3-4. ——— ROOM 3
— Chair & Zoom Moderator: Matloob Piracha (University of Kent & GLO)

• Vijetha Koppa (Zayed University Dubai) (36)
  Does easier access to Alcohol increase Domestic Violence – Evidence from Local Option Elections
• Pawani Dasgupta (University of Groningen), Maite Laméris, Milena Nikolova. (104) Macroeconomic Conditions during the Impressionable Years and Adult Civic Engagement
• Yaron Zelekha (Ono Academic College) (9)
  Systemic Bias in Criminal Justice: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments
• Hai-Anh H. Dang (World Bank), Cuong Viet Nguyen (111)
  Employing data imputation to track poverty and welfare trends over extended time periods: An application to a poorer country

13:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 – 16:00 Two parallel sessions

14:00 – 16:00 FAMILY in-person Bonn P-S1-5. ——— ROOM 1
— Chair: Eva Dziadula (University of Notre Dame & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO)

• Stefan Schneck (Institut für Mittelstandsforschung)
  The origins of entrepreneurship: How parental role models and socialization shape later entrepreneurial intentions
• Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Gargi Sarkar (IIT Kanpur), Sarani Saha, Sounak Thakur. (129) Dowries, Debts and Children’s Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India
• Cynthia Bansak, Eva Dziadula (University of Notre Dame), Madeline Zavodny. (21)
  The Role of Coresident Grandparents in Maternal Employment among Asians in the US.

14:00 – 16:00 CARE in-person Bonn P-S2-5. ——— ROOM 2
— Chair: Olena Nizalova (University of Kent & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

• Andrea Berlanda (Università di Padova), Elisabetta Lodigiani, Lorenzo Rocco (84)
  Immigration and Adult Children’s Care for Elderly Parents: Evidence from Western Europe
• I Chun Chen (Mahidol University), Ruttiya Bhula-or (56-J)
  Economic Sustainability of Community-Based Long-Term Care for Aging Populations: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of Labor Market and Financing Challenges in the United States and Thailand
• Olena Nizalova (University of Kent), Julien Forder
  Revisiting the Economic Case for Social Care Spending: Informal Care

16:00 BREAK

16:30-18:30 Final session Bonn

16:30-18:30 HEALTH III in-person P-S1-6. ——— ROOM 1
— Chair: Holger Strulik (University of Goettingen)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO)

• Josep Amer Mestre, Manuel Serrano-Alarcon (Joint Research Centre) (99-J)
  Unpacking the Current Surge in Sick Leave: Insights from Spanish Administrative Data
• Siew Ling Yew (Monash University), Jie Zhang. (124)
  Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity
• Jakob Madsen, Zeresh Errol, Holger Strulik (University of Goettingen). (59-J)
  From Spirits to Crime: Two Centuries of Alcohol and Homicide in the West

18:30 Conference End in Bonn
Optional trips to Christmas Markets in Bonn & Bonn – Bad Godesberg

19:00 – 21:00 GLO JOBMARKET SESSIONS NORTH AMERICA I + II
( 2 parallel sessions in breakout rooms. Note that participants will be able to move between the two sessions once entered the room.)
EASTERN TIME: 13:00–15:00 ——— ROOM AMERICA

Session 5.A: Health Economics — North America
— Chair: Bingxiao Wu (Rutgers University)
— Zoom Moderator: Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Uppsala University & GLO )

1. Ami Adjoh-Baliki (Howard University, ami.adjoh@bison.howard.edu), Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Child Mental Health in Ghana , https://amiadjohbaliki.com/

2. Vikrant V Kamble (University of Delaware, vvkamble@udel.edu), The 1973 Oil Embargo and Infant Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Macroeconomic Shock, https://vikrant-v-kamble.github.io/

3. Zincy Wei (Northwestern University (Kellogg), zixin.wei@kellogg.northwestern.edu), The Economics of Choosing Traditional Medicine: Theory and Evidence from India , https://sites.google.com/view/zincy-wei/home

4. Elizabeth Krause (University of Kentucky, elizabeth.krause@uky.edu), The Effect of Immediate Postpartum Contraceptives on Teen Birth Spacing and Infant Health: Evidence from Changes in the Medicaid Payment Structure, https://sites.google.com/view/elizabethkrause/

5. Arin Shahbazian (Virginia Tech, arin1989@vt.edu), Time to Weight Loss and Subsequent Weight Maintenance: A Survival Analysis, https://arin-shahbazian.github.io/

6. Yu Liu (Tulane University, yliu79@tulane.edu), Higher Education and Adult Health: Evidence from China’s College Entrance Exam Suspension, https://kellyyliu.github.io/

Discussants:

• Tewodros G. Gutema, tewodros.gutema@bison.howard.edu
• Jesugnon Ezechias Djima, jdjima@uh.edu
• Md Tahmeed Hossain, tahmeedh@mail.smu.edu
• Matthew McKetty, mcketty@wisc.edu
• Anushka Mullick, amullic2@binghamton.edu
• Shailee Manandhar, shailee.manandhar@rutgers.edu

Session 5.B: Human Capital, Education, and Labor Markets — North America
— Chair: Tyler Ransom (University of Oklahoma & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Uppsala University & GLO)

1. Claire Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison, ckkim3@wisc.edu), Incentivizing Effort: Conditional Pocket Money and Adolescent Skill Formation, https://sites.google.com/view/clairekykim

2. Ke Lyu (University of Nevada, Reno, lvke1220@gmail.com), How do minimum wages affect nonemployer businesses in the United States?, https://kerrlyu.github.io/

3. Md Wahid Ferdous Ibon (Rutgers University, mfi16@economics.rutgers.edu), The Effect of Parental Job Loss on College Enrollment and Dropout in the US, https://www.wahidferdousibon.com/

4. Taekyu Eom (University at Buffalo, SUNY, taekyueo@buffalo.edu), Cap-and-Apply: Unintended Consequences of College Application Policy in South Korea, https://sites.google.com/view/taekyueom

5. Seungmin Yang (Kansas State University, yangsm9597@ksu.edu), More Peers, Less Support?: International Peer Effects in Doctoral Programs, https://sites.google.com/view/mikeyang/home

6. Sudong Hua (Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Fudan University., sudonghua.econ@gmail.com), Limits to Skill-based Countercyclical Adaptation in Business Cycles, https://sites.google.com/view/sudonghua/

Discussants:

• Lei Bill Wang, wang.13945@osu.edu
• Sabarna Mukherjee, sabarnamoU@gmail.com
• Lele Zhao, lzhao6@tulane.edu
• Ge Sun, gsun4@nd.edu
• Zhiyang Feng, zfeng56@wisc.edu
• Xuchao Gao, xuchaog@smu.edu

21:00 BREAK

21:30 – 23:30 GLO JOBMARKET SESSIONS NORTH AMERICA III + IV
( 2 parallel sessions in breakout rooms. Note that participants will be able to move between the two sessions once entered the room.)
EASTERN TIME: 15:30 – 17:30 ——— ROOM AMERICA

Session 6.A: Labor and Demographic Economics — North America
— Chair:  Fan Wang (Houston & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Uppsala University & GLO)

1. Lei Bill Wang (Ohio State University, wang.13945@osu.edu), Attention vs Choice in Incomplete Welfare Take-up: What Works for WIC?, https://sites.google.com/view/leibillwang/home?authuser=0

2. Sabarna Mukherjee (University at Buffalo, sabarnamoU@gmail.com), The Cyclical Behavior of a Firm’s Optimal Market and Referral Hiring, https://sites.google.com/view/sabarnamukherjee/about

3. Lele Zhao (Tulane University, lzhao6@tulane.edu), Education as Insurance: Property Division and Women’s Education, https://lelezhao-econ.github.io/

4. Ge Sun (University of Notre Dame , gsun4@nd.edu ), Expected Fertility, Labor Market Contracts, and the Gender Wage Gap, https://sybil-sun.github.io

5. Zhiyang Feng (University of Wisconsin Madison, zfeng56@wisc.edu), Where Are You From and What Will You Choose? Career Path and Intergenerational Mobility, https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/zhiyangfeng/home

6. Xuchao Gao (Southern Methodist University, xuchaog@smu.edu), Single by Choice or Rejection? Evidence on Mating Preferences in China, https://xuchaogao.github.io

Discussants:

• Ami Adjoh-Baliki, ami.adjoh@bison.howard.edu
• Vikrant V Kamble, vvkamble@udel.edu
• Zincy Wei, zixin.wei@kellogg.northwestern.edu
• Elizabeth Krause, elizabeth.krause@uky.edu
• Arin Shahbazian, arin1989@vt.edu
• Yu Liu, yliu79@tulane.edu

Session 6.B: Micro-Development Economics — North America
— Chair:  Rafiuddin Najam (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Uppsala University & GLO)

1. Tewodros G. Gutema (Howard University, tewodros.gutema@bison.howard.edu), Conflict, Climate Shocks, and Food Insecurity: Evidence from a Dynamic Event Study Analysis

2. Jesugnon Ezechias Djima (University of Houston, jdjima@uh.edu), Rethinking Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from West Africa Beyond the Co-Residence Sample Bias, www.jesugnonezechiasdjima.com

3. Md Tahmeed Hossain (Southern Methodist University, tahmeedh@mail.smu.edu), Historical Religious Conflict and the Persistence of Communal Divisions: Evidence from Temple Destruction in Medieval India, https://mdtahmeedhossain.github.io/

4. Matthew McKetty (University of Wisconsin – Madison, mcketty@wisc.edu), Sun, Sand, and Services: Tourism and Household Welfare in Jamaica, matthewmcketty.com

5. Anushka Mullick (Binghamton Univerity, amullic2@binghamton.edu), Maternal Working Hours and Children’s Cognitive Outcomes in India: Evidence from Bunching Designs, https://sites.google.com/view/anushkamullick/home

6. Shailee Manandhar (Rutgers University, shailee.manandhar@rutgers.edu), The impact of the 2015 earthquake on internal and international migration in Nepal, https://sites.google.com/view/shaileemanandhar/home

Discussants:

• Claire Kim, ckkim3@wisc.edu
• Ke Lyu, lvke1220@gmail.com
• Md Wahid Ferdous Ibon, mfi16@economics.rutgers.edu
• Taekyu Eom, taekyueo@buffalo.edu
• Seungmin Yang, yangsm9597@ksu.edu
• Sudong Hua, sudonghua.econ@gmail.com

Ends;

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December 4, 2025. All sessions are CET Berlin.

8:30-10:30 Three parallel sessions

8:30 – 10:30 SCHOOLING in-person P-S1-1; ———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Ingo E. Isphording (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods & GLO)
— Moderator: Liwen Guo (The University of New South Wales & GLO)

• Antonio Di Paolo (Universitat de Barcelona & AQR-IREA). (12)
  Language of Instruction, Bilingualism, and Neighbourhood Quality: Do Local Language Skills Matter?
• Jaroslav Groero (CERGE-EI), Alena Bicakova. (122)
  Beyond Test Scores: The Effect of School Entry Age on Specific Cognitive Processes
• Antonia K. Entorf, Miriam Gensowski, Ingo E. Isphording (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
  Mental Health Challenges Among Teachers: The Role of Occupation and Workplaces

8:30 -10:30 ENVIRONMENT in-person P-S2-1; ———- Zoom ROOM 2
— Chair: Shuaizhang Feng (IESR & Jinan University, JOPE Editor & GLO) 
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation and GLO)

• Xiaoying Liu (University of Pennsylvania). (37)
  Air Pollution and Under-5 Child Mortality: Evidence from China’s Coal Power Plant Phase-out Policy
• Luca Buzzanca (Gran Sasso Science Institute) (90)
  Labor Market Effects of Climate Extremes: Evidence from Italian Agriculture
• Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO)
  Networking with GLO & the Handbook “Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics” project

8:30 – 10:30 GENDER I online-only; P-S3-1: ———- Zoom ROOM 3
— Chair: Matloob Piracha (University of Kent & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO)

• João Pereira dos Santos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) (79)
  Perceptions of (mis)behavior by gender: Evidence from the Catholic World Youth Day
• Nicholas A. Jolly, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, Georgios Voucharas (Liverpool Hope University). (49)
  Business Closures, Labor Market Policies and Gender Gaps.
• Yujia Liu (University College London) (117)
  The Intergenerational Transmission in Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP): The Role of Gender Norms in Urban China.

10:30 BREAK

11:00-13:00 Three parallel sessions

11:00-13:00 GENDER II in-person P-S1-2; ———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO)

• Elghafiky Bimardhika, Daniel Halim (World Bank). (76-J)
  To have it all? Career and family choices of college-educated Indonesian women
• Christian Grund (RWTH Aachen University) (13-J)
  Conditional Gender Pay Gaps
• Natalia Danzer, Rachel E Kranton, Piotr Pawel Larysz, Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics). (35)
  Gender Identity, Norms, and Happiness.

11:00 – 13:00 EARNINGS in-person P-S2-2; ———- Zoom ROOM 2
— Chair: Laszlo Goerke (IAAEU, Trier University, IZA, CESifo, GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)

• Emmi Wilén (University of Oulu), Sanna Huikari, Jouko Miettunen, Marko Korhonen. (105)
  Temperament traits and longitudinal earnings: increasing returns over time and at the top
• Damilola Afolabi (University of Regina) (141)
  Is there a Motherhood Bonus for Immigrant Mothers in the Canadian Labor Market compared to Immigrant Non-Mothers?
• Laszlo Goerke (IAAEU, Trier University, IZA, CESifo, GLO), Sven Hartmann, Yue Huang. (85-J)
  Councils of contentment: Works councils and income perceptions

13:00 BREAK

14:00-15:00 GLO Research Seminar in-person Plenary Conference Room K1;
———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Viola Angelini (University of Groningen & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO); session will be recorded.

Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University)
The Visible Costs of Invisible Household Labor

15:00-16:00 KEYNOTE SPEECH in-person Plenary Conference Room K1;
———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Maloob Piracha (University of Kent & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO); session will be recorded.

Viola Angelini (University of Groningen & GLO)
Growing Older in Good Health: Tracing the Roots of Inequalities

16:00 BREAK

16:30-17:30 in-person Plenary Conference Room K1; Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Shuaizhang Feng (IESR & Jinan University, JOPE Editor & GLO) 
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO); session will be recorded.

– Report on the Journal of Population Economics: Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & JOPE EiC)
– Kuznets Award Ceremony: Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & JOPE EiC)

Claudio Costanzo (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre & ECARES) receives the 2026 Kuznets Prize. The annual prize honors the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics in the previous year. 

Claudio Costanzo: Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing 
FREE READ (https://rdcu.be/eKaC4) Journal of Population Economics (2025), 38, article 51

17:30-18:30 in-person Plenary Conference Room K1; ———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO):; session is recorded.

Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances
– Ferdinand Dudenhöffer (Director CAR, Bochum & GLO)
– Shuaizhang Feng (IESR & Jinan University, JOPE Editor & GLO) 
– Xuewu Gu (International Relations/Center for Global Studies, Bonn University) 
– Wenxuan Hou (University of Edinburgh & GLO) 
– Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & Senator Leopoldina), CHAIR

• Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Klaus F. Zimmermann and Yu Zhang (2022). “Higher Education Expansion and the Rise of China in Economics Research”. China Economic Review 74 (2022) 101813. OPEN ACCESS. PDF. 
• Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (JCEBS). 

18:30 BREAK

ONLINE ONLY. December 4, 2025. ———- ROOM 1
19:00-21:00 CET= 13:00-15:00 EST “Philadelphia I” USA & Americas
— Chair: Amelie Constant (University of Pennsylvania & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Sandipa Bhattacharjee (Ramapo College of New Jersey & GLO)

• Harry Patrinos (University of Arkansas). (74)
  Seventy Years of Human Capital: What We Have Learned, And What We Still Have to Learn.
• Carmel U. Chiswick  (George Washington University). (51)   
  Economic Development in the 21^st Century.
• Nancy Chau, Huiyi Chen (James Madison University), Oleg Firsin (62-J)
  Social Networks and the Spread of Strikes
• Amelie F. Constant (University of Pennsylvania).
  Dynamic migration transitions between wealthy home and host countries by natives.

21:15-22:00 New Book Presentation in person dinner & Zoom ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO); session will be recorded.

Alison Booth (Writer & Australian National University & GLO) Death at Booroomba

The famous labor economist speaks about her new book online from Australia, available for all ONLINE participants and all dinner participants in the Casino of the Science Center Bonn.
Study also the recent GLO Interview with her (including references to the book).

ONLINE ONLY. December 4, 2025 CET Bonn.
„Sydney I“. Australia-New Zealand-US West Coast/else
22:30-00:30 CET = 8:30-10:30 AEDT (Dec. 5) ———- ROOM SYDNEY
— Chair: Max Tani (UNSW Canberra & GLO)
— Moderator: Liwen Guo (University of New South Wales & GLO)

• Yanxia Yu, Jacques Poot, W. Robert Reed, Weilun Wu (University of Canterbury), Yan. (58-J) Meta-analysis of the Impact of Population Age-Composition on Aggregate Saving Rates: A Global Perspective
• Sholeh Maani (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Olga Sudareva (University of Auckland, New Zealand). (139-J)
  Assessing the Impact of Crime on Gender Disparities in Labour Market Outcomes.
• Zhiming Cheng, Sarah Cook, Liwen Guo (University of New South Wales & The Kids Research Institute Australia & GLO), Massimiliano Tani. (77-J)
  Environmental Policy and Gender Health Gap
• Jayanta Sarkar (Queensland University of Technology). (140-J)
  Breaking the Mold: Norms, Childcare, and the Dynamics of Female Labor

22:30-00:30 CET = 16:30-18:30 EST “Philadelphia II” USA & Americas —— ROOM 1
— Chair: Amelie Constant (University of Pennsylvania & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

• Thomas Goldring, David C. Ribar (Georgia State University & JOPE Associate Editor). (91-J)
  How Children Combine Pre-Kindergarten and Subsidized Child Care in Georgia.
• Paige Schoonover (Saint Mary’s College of California). (121)
  Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile
• Jiaheng Li (Macquarie University) (63)
  Predicting dynamic vulnerability to multidimensional poverty in China
• Hugo Jales (Syracuse University & JOPE Associate Editor), Zhengfei Yu (125)
  Minimum wage and Informality in a Roy Bargaining Economy: Evidence from a Bunching Estimator

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December 3, 2025. All sessions are CET Berlin.

3:30 – 5:30 GLO JOBMARKET SESSION ASIA I ———- ROOM 1
Jobmarket Session 1: Applied Microeconomics (I) – Asia
— Chair: Shihe Fu (Wuhan University & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)
CHINA: 10:30–12:30; INDIA: 8:00–10:00

1. Haobin Fan (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, haobin.fan@gmail.com), The Employment Landscape of Older Migrant Workers in China’s Aging Society: The Role of City‐Level and Industry Specialization, https://iuds.sass.org.cn/_s48/2021/0622/c5601a107639/page.psp

2. Miao Yu (National School of Development, Peking University, myu2021@nsd.pku.edu.cn), Extended Maternity Leaves and Gender Gaps: Evidence from an Online Job Platform, https://miaoyu20000702.github.io/miaoyu-pku/index.html

3. Andong Yan (University of Hong Kong, adyan@hku.hk), Redesigning Medicare Shared Savings Program: Implications for Risk-Averse and Strategic ACOs, https://andongyan.com/

4. Zipeng MA (ESSEC Business School, zipeng.ma@essec.edu), The reverse China shock on innovations and spillover: evidence from manufacturing industries, zipengmarkma.github.io

5. Yingfei Wang (Peking University, wangyf@stu.pku.edu.cn), Number One Girl: Female Top Scorers and Peer Academic Performance in Junior High Schools

6. Chen Chen (Brandeis University, chencc@brandeis.edu), Public Health Restrictions and Household Instability: Evidence from China’s COVID-19 Lockdown , 
https://sites.google.com/view/chenchen-econ/research

Discussants:

• Rikhia Bhukta, rikhiaeco@gmail.com
• Anshika Mathur, aa708@snu.edu.in
• Sabhya Rai, sabhya.rai21@iimb.ac.in
• Shreemoyee Saha, la21resch11004@iith.ac.in
• Kamalesh Pahurkar, pahurkar.kamalesh@iitb.ac.in
• Björn Becker, becker@iaaeu.de

5:30 BREAK

6:00 – 8:00 GLO JOBMARKET SESSION ASIA II ———- ROOM 1
Jobmarket Session 2: Applied Microeconomics (II) — Asia
— Chair & Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)
CHINA: 13:00–15:00; INDIA: 10:30–12:30

1. Rikhia Bhukta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, rikhiaeco@gmail.com), Does Financial Inclusion Mitigate Social Exclusion?, https://rikhiabhukta.com/

2. Anshika Mathur (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence , aa708@snu.edu.in), Connectivity and Crime: The Impact of Broadband Availability on Sexual Assaults in India , https://mathuranshika.github.io/

3. Sabhya Rai (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, sabhya.rai21@iimb.ac.in), Price Shocks, Job Choices, Labor Mobility and Earnings, https://sites.google.com/view/sabhya-rai/home

4. Shreemoyee Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, la21resch11004@iith.ac.in), The Double-Edged Sword: How Women’s Financial Inclusion Affects Intimate Partner Violence in India

5. Kamalesh Pahurkar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, pahurkar.kamalesh@iitb.ac.in), Removing Small-Scale Reservations and Quality Upgradation: Evidence from India, https://sites.google.com/view/pahurkarkamalesh/home

6. Björn Becker (IAAEU at Trier University, becker@iaaeu.de), Higher Education, Lower Satisfaction: Hypogamy and Traditional Norms in Japan, https://sites.google.com/view/bjorn-becker/home?authuser=0

Discussants:

• Haobin Fan, haobin.fan@gmail.com
• Miao Yu, myu2021@nsd.pku.edu.cn
• Andong Yan, adyan@hku.hk
• Zipeng Ma, zipeng.ma@essec.edu
• Yingfei Wang, wangyf@stu.pku.edu.cn
• Chen Chen, chencc@brandeis.edu

8:00 BREAK

8:30 – 10:30 GLO VirtYS Alumni Invited Session ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Olena Nizalova (University of Kent, Director VirtYS & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)

• Olena Nizalova (University of Kent & Director VirtYS)
  VirtYS – the GLO Junior Mentoring Program
• Pragati (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), Tirthatanmoy Das.
  Health Coverage and Educational Investments
• Tista Mukherjee (Faculty of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISERB)
  Beyond the Street: Short-Run Spillover of Publicized Non-Partner Violence on Intimate Partner Abuse
• Tarana Chauhan (Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Brown University), Berber Kramer, Patrick S. Ward, and Subhransu Pattnaik
  Agricultural credit and women’s agency: Experimental evidence from India
• Deepthi Sara Anil (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
  Dietary Diversity and Aspirations of Young Adults. Evidence from India

10:30 BREAK

11:00 – 13:00 Identity ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen, JOPE Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)

• Alessio Buonomo (University of Naples “Federico II”), Stefania Capecchi, Francesca Di Iorio, Salvatore Strozza. (144)
  Does cultural identity influence the probability of employment during economic crises?
   Journal of Population Economics 38, 61 (2025): OPEN ACCESS.
• Enrica De Cian, Filippo Pavanello, Teresa Randazzo (University of Messina). (94)
  Does social identity influence households’ adaptation to hot temperatures?
• David Fadiran & Adeola Oyenubi (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) (52-J)
  Spatial inequality, sub-regional governance and subjective well-being: The case of South Africa
• Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen & JOPE Editor). (18)
  Work orientations and turnover.
  GLO Discussion Paper 1645 Work orientations and economics – Download PDF

13:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 – 16:00 MIGRATION I ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen, JOPE Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Sandipa Bhattacharjee (Ramapo College of New Jersey & GLO)

• Ignat Stepanok (Institute for Employment Research, IAB) (25)
  Migration and Intellectual Property Rights Protection
• Anastasia Litina, Ioannis Patios (University of Macedonia).  (98-J)
  The Impact of Natural Disasters on Migration Attitudes. 
• Xiangqing Liu, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Silvana Robone (University of Eastern Piedmont), Elisa Tosetti, and Giorgio Vittadini. (89-J)
  The Effect of the Great Recession on the Mental Health Care of Immigrant and Native Workers in Italy.
• Sara Lemos (University of Leicester) and Jonathan Portes (King’s College London). (57)
  The Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment in the UK Using Longitudinal Administrative Data.

14:00 – 16:00 GLO JOBMARKET SESSION EUROPE I ———- ROOM 2
Jobmarket Session 3: Applied Microeconomics (III) — Europe
— Chair: Brianna Felegi (Virginia Tech)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

1. Theodor Kouro (CERGE-EI, theodor.kouro@cerge-ei.cz), Let Me Choose What I’m Best at: A Natural Field Experiment with Volunteers, https://sites.google.com/view/theodor-kouro?usp=sharing

2. Margarita Pavlova (CERGE-EI, Charles University, Margarita.Pavlova@cerge-ei.cz), Graduates in a Cycle: The Effect of Business Cycle Trajectories on Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates, https://margarita-pavlova.github.io/

3. Jinci Liu (Stockholm University , jinci.liu@iies.su.se), Managing by Feedback, https://jinciliu.github.io/

4. Stella Papadokonstantaki (Washington University in St. Louis, p.stella@wustl.edu), Self-Presentation, https://www.stellapapadokonstantaki.com/

5. Nathan VIEIRA (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, nathan.vieira@univ-amu.fr), The Deadweight Loss of Short-Time Work, nathanvieira38.github.io

6. Yusuf Sen (University of Siena, yusufsenecon@gmail.com), Skill Obsolescence and the Consequences of Job Loss, https://sites.google.com/view/yusufziyasen

Discussants:

• Xiaoying Liu, xiaoyliu@sas.upenn.edu
• Ariane Gordan, ariane.gordan@gmail.com
• Claudio Annibali, c.annibali@rug.nl
• Dor Leventer, dorleventer@mail.tau.ac.il
• Hyun Lim, hyunkyeong.lim@wisc.edu
• Hoda El-Enbaby, h.elenbaby@lancaster.ac.uk

16:00 BREAK

16:30 – 18:30 HEALTH I ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Nicolas R. Ziebarth (University of Mannheim, ZEW, GLO & JOPE Associate Editor)
— Zoom Moderator: Sandipa Bhattacharjee (Ramapo College of New Jersey & GLO)

• Dimitris Vallis, Riikka Savolainen (Swansea University), Jonathan Portes. (107)
  The impact of the pandemic on health-related inactivity and benefit claims
• Danilo Cavapozzi, Enrico Fornasiero (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice/University of Naples Parthenope), Teresa Randazzo. (95)
  The Effects of the Indian Mid-Day Meal Scheme on Cognitive and Health Outcomes of Children in Andhra Pradesh
• Petru Crudu, Giacomo Pasini (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). (108-J)
  The Health Burden of Job Strain: Evidence from Europe
• Stefan Pichler, Christopher Prinz, Stefan Thewissen, Nicolas R. Ziebarth (University of Mannheim, ZEW & JOPE Associate Editor). (39-J)
  The Economics of Paid Sick Leave

16:30 – 18:30 GLO JOBMARKET SESSION EUROPE II ———- ROOM 2
Jobmarket Session 4: Labor and Health Economics – Europe
— Chair: Nazanin Sedaghatkish (Sam Houston State)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

1. Xiaoying Liu (University Pennsylvania, xiaoyliu@sas.upenn.edu), Air Pollution and Under-5 Child Mortality: Evidence from China’s Coal Power Plant Phase-out Policy, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mRB9MegAAAAJ&hl=en

2. Ariane Gordan (University of Luxembourg, ariane.gordan@gmail.com), Marriage Matters: Internal Migration and Marital Sorting in Indonesia, https://arianegordan.github.io/

3. Claudio Annibali (University of Groningen, c.annibali@rug.nl), The Labour Market and Health Effects of a Diabetes Warning: Evidence of Gender and Age Differences from the Lifelines Cohort Study, https://sites.google.com/view/claudioannibali/about/

4. Dor Leventer (Tel Aviv University, dorleventer@mail.tau.ac.il), Identification of Child Penalties, https://sites.google.com/mail.tau.ac.il/dor-leventer/home

5. Hyun Lim (University of Wisconsin-Madison, hyunkyeong.lim@wisc.edu), Grading Policies and College Major Choice with Ability Learning, https://www.hyun-lim.com

6. Hoda El-Enbaby (Lancaster University, h.elenbaby@lancaster.ac.uk), Health Insurance and Financial Protection: Evidence from Egypt, https://www.hodaelenbaby.com/

Discussants:

• Theodor Kouro, theodor.kouro@cerge-ei.cz
• Margarita Pavlova, Margarita.Pavlova@cerge-ei.cz
• Jinci Liu, jinci.liu@iies.su.se
• Stella Papadokonstantaki, p.stella@wustl.edu
• Nathan Vieira, nathan.vieira@univ-amu.fr
• Yusuf Sen, yusufsenecon@gmail.com

18:30 BREAK

19:00 – 21:00 MIGRATION II ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Cynthia Bansak (St. Lawrence University, JOPE Associate Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

• Tomas Sarkozi (Bratislava University of Economics and Business), Martin Kahanec (97-J*)
  Do Public Employment Programs Benefit Marginalized Communities?
• Jacek Barszczewski, Sophie Brochet, Prasanthi Ramakrishnan (Southern Methodist University). (110)
  Across-District Marriage Migration in India
• Maye Ehab (Institute for Employment Research) and Katja Möhring (20)
  Adaptation or continuation? Refugees’ labor market participation and working hours before and after migration
• Cynthia Bansak (St. Lawrence University & JOPE Associate Editor), Stephen Drinkwater (Roehampton University) (28)
  Differences in Schooling Attendance and Modes of Instruction Amongst Ukrainian Refugee Children: A Cross National Study

21:00 BREAK

21:30 – 23:30 HEALTH II & Labor Supply ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Xi Chen (Yale University, JOPE Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

• Chen Chen (Brandeis University) (80)
  Public Health Restrictions and Household Instability: Evidence from China’s COVID-19 Lockdown
• Hyunji Kim (University of Washington) (65)
  Maternal Health Programs and the Continuation of Unintended Pregnancies
• Xi Chen (Yale University & JOPE Editor). (19)
  AI in Healthcare: Assessing Safety and Quality of Digital Health Implementation in China.
• Anran Liu (University of California, Davis), Luoqi Yuan, Jianjun Tang. (150-J)
  Property Rights and Late-Life Labor Supply: Evidence from China’s Rural Land Titling Reform

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Recruiters – what to expect

• The GLO job market sessions focus on research related to labor, demography, health, or human resources broadly defined. We have contributors from all related disciplines.
  
• There are 48 candidates in 8 sessions covering Asia, Europe & North America.
  
• The detailed program with time-schedule and Zoom links for the GLO job market sessions are provided HERE.

Young scholars preparing for the current & future job markets

• Study the requirements and the market conditions.
• Prepare for long-term challenges.

• The economics job market 2015 – 2025 based on job postings from JOE on the AEA website.

Source: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on LinkedIn.
https://paulgp.com/2025/11/24/joe-market-update-november.html

What else to expect from the conference

• Follow online both all in-person (Dec 4-5) & online (Dec 3-5) sessions in Bonn/Germany and around the globe.
• Recruiters: Follow the GLO Job Market sessions for ASIA & EUROPE (Dec 3) and NORTH AMERICA (Dec 5).
• Presentations from the GLO VirtYS Young Scholar mentoring program on Dec 3.
• A large number of Invited & Contributed Research Paper Sessions (Dec 3-5) including some on EUROPE & AFRICA.
• Focused research paper sessions in regional time-zones on NORTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA & OCEANIA (“Sydney”) (Dec 4-5)
• The monthly GLO Research Seminar (Dec 4).
• The Conference Keynote Speech (Dec 4).
• The JOPE Kuznets Prize Ceremony & Speech (Dec 4).
• The expert Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances
• Presentation: Publishing with Springer Nature
• New Book Presentation on the Death at Booroomba

Curious? Study the full program of the conference and register here: LINK

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Alison L. Booth, a prominent Australian labor economist and celebrated novelist, has just published a new book, Death at Booroomba (Ventura Press, 2025). “Small town, big secrets.” Here you learn more about this fascinating crime story, the author and how to listen to her story.

Book Launch: On December 4, 2025, from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. CET Berlin time (December 4, 2025, = 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST Philadelphia time = December 5, 2025, 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. AEDT Sydney time), she will present the book online at the Global GLO 2025 Conference.

• See LINK for details on how to participate online in the Global GLO 2025 Conference.
• More details about other time zones for this event see the information provided at the end of this post.

• For background on the book and on Booth, please read her short bio and the accompanying interview here: LINK
• More information about the book and how to order it: Website of the author.

• Note that the “high noon” of this murder story takes place in early December 1915, just 110 years before the GLO 2025 conference.

• To participate online in the book launch, you need to prior register here: LINK

What other to expect at the conference:

• Follow online both all in-person (Dec 4-5) & online (Dec 3-5) sessions in Bonn/Germany and around the globe.
• Recruiters: Follow the GLO Job Market sessions for ASIA & EUROPE (Dec 3) and NORTH AMERICA (Dec 5).
• Presentations from the GLO VirtYS Young Scholar mentoring program on Dec 3.
• A large number of Invited & Contributed Research Paper Sessions (Dec 3-5) including some on EUROPE & AFRICA.
• Focused research paper sessions in regional time-zones on NORTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA & OCEANIA (“Sydney”) (Dec 4-5)
• The monthly GLO Research Seminar (Dec 4).
• The Conference Keynote Speech (Dec 4).
• The JOPE Kuznets Prize Ceremony & Speech (Dec 4).
• The expert Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances
• Presentation: Publishing with Springer Nature

Curious? Study the full program of the conference and register here: LINK

Time Conversion –December 4, 2025, from 21:00 to 22:00 CET

Not your zone?  Check Time Zone Converter to orient yourself.

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December 5, 2025

6:00 – 8:00 CET Berlin = 13:00 – 15:00 Beijing time IESR (China) Invited Session 
— Chair: Xue Sen (IESR & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Juno (Xiangyan) Qiu (IESR)

• Hanming Fang, Jiayin Hu, Miao Yu (Peking University)
  Maternity Leave Extensions and Gender Gaps: Evidence from an Online Job Platform
• James Kai-sing Kung, Wenbing Wu (University of Melbourne)
  The Rise of the Chinese Clan
• Yunbo Liu, Zexuan Wang (Minzu University of China), Zesen Zhang, Jue Bai, Xiaoyang Ye
  Occupational Cognition and Employment Choices in Manufacturing: Evidence from the Information Intervention Experiment with Vocational College Students
• Xiaogang Li, Ze Song (Nankai University), Puyang Sun, Hong Zou
  Stagnation and Differentiation in Growth: Quality Effects of Consumer Goods for Chinese Households

To participate online in this session, you need to prior register here: LINK

What other to expect at the conference:

• Follow online both all in-person (Dec 4-5) & online (Dec 3-5) sessions in Bonn/Germany and around the globe.
• Recruiters: Follow the GLO Job Market sessions for ASIA & EUROPE (Dec 3) and NORTH AMERICA (Dec 5).
• Presentations from the GLO VirtYS Young Scholar mentoring program on Dec 3.
• A large number of Invited & Contributed Research Paper Sessions (Dec 3-5) including some on EUROPE & AFRICA.
• Focused research paper sessions in regional time-zones on NORTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA & OCEANIA (“Sydney”) (Dec 4-5)
• The monthly GLO Research Seminar (Dec 4).
• The Conference Keynote Speech (Dec 4).
• The JOPE Kuznets Prize Ceremony & Speech (Dec 4).
• The expert Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances
• Presentation: Publishing with Springer Nature
• New Book Presentation on the Death at Booroomba

Curious? Study the full program of the conference and register here: LINK

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What to expect:

• Follow online both all in-person (Dec 4-5) & online (Dec 3-5) sessions in Bonn/Germany and around the globe.
• Recruiters: Follow the GLO Job Market sessions for ASIA & EUROPE (Dec 3) and NORTH AMERICA (Dec 5).
• Presentations from the GLO VirtYS Young Scholar mentoring program on Dec 3.
• A large number of Invited & Contributed Research Paper Sessions (Dec 3-5) including some on EUROPE & AFRICA.
• Focused research paper sessions in regional time-zones on NORTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA & OCEANIA (“Sydney”) (Dec 4-5)
• The monthly GLO Research Seminar (Dec 4).
• The Conference Keynote Speech (Dec 4).
• The JOPE Kuznets Prize Ceremony & Speech (Dec 4).
• The expert Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances
• Presentation: Publishing with Springer Nature
• New Book Presentation on the Death at Booroomba

Curious? Study the full program here:

https://glabor.org/program-details-glo-bonn-2025/

Please register to follow online all parts of the program.

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The GLO VirtYS Alumi Invited Session 2025 as part of the GLO-JOPE Conference 2025 is scheduled for December 3, 2025 and will soon be announced as part of the general conference program HERE.

The program is directed by Olena Nizalova (University of Kent & Director VirtYS).

GLO is proud to announce another strong cohort of VirtYS Scholars:

• 2025-26 GLO VirtYS Cohort: Mohammad Al-Masaeid, Claudio Annibali, Fenet Jima Bedaso, Andrea Carrazana-Rivera, Minali Grover, Md Rabiul Karim, Narbadeshwar Mishra, Aristide Merlin Ngono, Tomas Sarkozi, Michael Windsor

The 2025-26 GLO VirtYS Cohort Advisors are: 

• Professor Petri Böckerman, School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• Professor Xi Chen, School of Public Health, Yale University, USA.
• Professor Isabelle Chort, Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour, France
• Professor Nick Drydakis, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK
• Professor John Heywood,  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
• Professor Caroline Krafft, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA
• Dr Olga Popova, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies IOS, Regensburg, Germany
• Professor Punarjit Roychowdhury, Sniv Nadar University, India
• Professor Anisha Sharma, Ashoka University, India

GLO is grateful for the great service provided by these established researchers.

*****

Note: Featured image by Employee-Training-unsplash

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New GLO Discussion Papers of October 2025

1684 Towards improved menstrual health: The impact of period products on reproductive tract infections – Download PDF
by Babbar, Karan & Ojha, Manini

1683 Beliefs about Bots: How Employers Plan for AI in White-Collar Work – Download PDF
by Brüll, Eduard & Mäurer, Samuel & Rostam-Afschar, Davud

1682 An Impact Evaluation of the Effects of Income Support Benefits on Aggregate Labour Supply – Download PDF
by Martín-Román, Javier & Martín-Román, Ángel L.

1681 Unequal Expression: Social Position, APOE Genotype and Risk of Dementia – Download PDF
by Aravena, José M. & Chen, Xi & Levy, Becca R.

1680 Education, Patriarchy, and Time Allocations of Married Couples – Download PDF
by Bhattacharya, Leena & Van Soest, Arthur

1679 Economic Development in the 21st Century – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Carmel U.

1678 The origins of entrepreneurship: How parental role models and socialization shape later entrepreneurial intentions – Download PDF
by Schneck, Stefan

1677 Performance Pay and Happiness: Work vs. Home? – Download PDF
by Baktash, Mehrzad B. & Heywood, John S. & Jirjahn, Uwe

1676 Artificial intelligence as a method of invention – Download PDF
by Arenas Díaz, Guillermo & Piva, Mariacristina & Vivarelli, Marco

1675 Working from Home and Mental Health: Giving Employees a Choice Does Make a Difference – Download PDF
by Jirjahn, Uwe & Rienzo, Cinzia

1674 Returns to education in Greece: Causal evidence from the 1977 labor market survey – Download PDF
by Patrinos, Harry Anthony

1673 COVID-19 Induced Asian Discrimination and Health: What Can We Learn from Reported Health Status? – Download PDF
by Shaeye, Abdihafit & Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth

These are our authors:

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Astghik Mavisakalyan is a Professor of Economics at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University, and a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), leading Curtin’s node.

Her research on gender, violence, health, wellbeing and institutions has appeared in top-tier journals including the European Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change and World Development. She ranks among the top 5% of economists and top 2% of women economists globally based on the past decade’s publications (IDEAS/RePEc) and has received multiple research excellence awards. 

Astghik is a director of the Australasian Development Economics Association, founding chair of the Australian Gender Economics Workshop series, serves as an Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and on the Stronger Together Implementation Group, overseeing gender equality initiatives in Western Australia.

Astghik Mavisakalyan now acts as Editor of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE).

• JOPE Collection Sexual and Domestic Violence
• JOPE Collection Wellbeing and Happiness

JOPE also supports: GLO-JOPE Conference Bonn & Global – December 3-5, 2025. CALL FOR PAPERS in all areas of population economics and beyond. Submission Deadline November 5, 2025.

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Contributions are invited to cover issues broadly defined about: labor, population, development, family, fertility, migration, refugees, health, crime, conflict, religion, behavioral economics and other human resources topics.
Special interests include papers related to Africa, India, China, globalization or covered by the JOPE Collections.

Submissions are open, and the submission deadline is November 5, 2025. For further details (continuously updated) see 

https://glabor.org/global-glo-jope-conference-2025-december-3-5-bonn/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 5, 2025.
Decision communication ongoing, at the latest on November 10.
Registration deadline: November 17, 2025.

WHAT HIGHLIGHTS TO EXPECT?

• Keynote speech by Viola Angelini (University of Groningen) on
  Growing Older in Good Health: Tracing the Roots of Inequalities
• December GLO Research Seminar provided by  Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University): The Visible Costs of Invisible Household Labor
• Claudio Costanzo (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre & ECARES) receives the 2026 Kuznets Prize and presents his FREE READ (https://rdcu.be/eKaC4) article Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing. More details.
• Panel Discussion on Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances with prominent speakers (see draft program).
• Job Market Sessions for  young scholars. See separate CALL FOR PAPERS.
• Presentation of the new book Death at Booroomba by novelist (& economist) Alison Booth. See also the interview she just gave GLO: LINK
• A larger number of Journal of Population Economics Editors and Associate Editors present & acting, including Klaus F. Zimmermann, Xi Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Milena Nikolova, Kompal Sinha & Max Tani.
• About 80 in-person presentations in the Science Center Bonn, all accessible online, and a larger number of online-only paper presentations from all continents.
• Visit the Publisher Booth of Springer Nature, publisher of the Journal of Population Economics, the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics and the book series Population Economics.
• Visit Bonn and other near-by German destinations during the Christmas season to enjoy the many local Christmas markets. Explore the Beethoven House, discover the city’s wide range of museums, and tour the numerous art galleries of the former capital. Visit the Drachenfels and take in the spectacular views of the Rhine Valley.

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GLO Young Scholars Program invites job market candidates (PhD students or postdocs currently on the market in North America, Europe or Asia) to submit their research for presentation in dedicated job market sessions. This is a valuable opportunity to showcase your work and gain exposure in a supportive and high-profile environment. A special Q&A mentoring session for the selected presenters will take place after the presentations.

Session Focus: The job market sessions will focus on research related to labor, demography, health, or human resources broadly defined. We welcome submissions from candidates in all related disciplines.

Submission Requirements: Proposals must include:

• A paper or extended abstract of one’s Job Market Paper
• A CV

Submissions can be made either via link or as an attachment.

Session Regions Preferences: The job market sessions will also be organized by region based on their preferences for the timing of their presentations and the market of potential employers:

• North America
• Europe
• Asia

Please indicate your session preference in your submission. Presentations will be in English.

Submission Deadline: All submissions must be received by November 14^th, 2025. Notification of decision will be sent on November 20^th, 2025. 

Submission Process: Please click on the link below (or scan the QR code below) to submit your information and the required documents. If you have any questions regarding the submission process, feel free to contact Dr. Le Wang, Director of GLO Young Scholars Program.

SUBMISSION LINK

Benefits of Being Selected as a Presenter:

• Presenters are invited to provide a link to their personal websites which will be featured on the GLO website in the conference program, enhancing their portfolio’s visibility within the global research community.
• Presenters will have access to a special Q&A mentoring session focused on the job market experience, where committee members and peers share insights and advice.
• The online format minimizes costs, making participation accessible to candidates with limited financial resources. To further support early-career scholars, registration fees are waived for all job market candidates. This encourages a diverse set of institutions to be represented.
• Gain valuable experience presenting your research in a highly supportive environment, helping you refine your job market pitch and assess the progress of your work.
• Presenters will be eligible for an invitation to join the prestigious GLO network as a research affiliate, providing further opportunities for collaboration and professional growth.

We look forward to your participation and to supporting the next generation of scholars in labor and related fields. 

Organizing Committee:

Le Wang (Chair) Virginia Tech
Nazanin Sedaghatkish (Sam Houston State University), Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University), Tyler Ransom (University of Oklahoma), Fan Wang (University of Houston), Bingxiao Wu (Rutgers)

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Contributions are invited to cover issues broadly defined about: labor, population, development, family, fertility, migration, refugees, health, crime, conflict, religion, behavioral economics and other human resources topics.
Special interests include papers related to Africa, India, China, globalization or covered by the JOPE Collections.

Submissions are open, and the submission deadline is October 23, 2025. For further details (continuously updated) see 

https://glabor.org/global-glo-jope-conference-2025-december-3-5-bonn/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 5, 2025.
Decision communication ongoing, at the latest on November 10.
Registration deadline: November 17, 2025.

WHAT HIGHLIGHTS TO EXPECT?

• Keynote speech by Viola Angelini (University of Groningen) on
  Growing Older in Good Health: Tracing the Roots of Inequalities
• December GLO Research Seminar provided by  Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University): The Visible Costs of Invisible Household Labor
• Claudio Costanzo (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre & ECARES) receives the 2026 Kuznets Prize and presents his FREE READ (https://rdcu.be/eKaC4) article Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing. More details.
• Panel Discussion on Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances with prominent speakers.
• Presentation of the new book Death at Booroomba by novelist (& economist) Alison Booth. See also the interview she just gave GLO: LINK
• A larger number of Journal of Population Economics Editors and Associate Editors present & acting, including Klaus F. Zimmermann, Xi Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Milena Nikolova, Kompal Sinha & Max Tani.
• About 80 in-person presentations in the Science Center Bonn, all accessible online, and a larger number of online-only paper presentations from all continents.
• Visit the Publisher Booth of Springer Nature, publisher of the Journal of Population Economics, the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics and the book series Population Economics.
• Visit Bonn and other near-by German destinations during the Christmas season to enjoy the many local Christmas markets. Explore the Beethoven House, discover the city’s wide range of museums, and tour the numerous art galleries of the former capital. Visit the Drachenfels and take in the spectacular views of the Rhine Valley.

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Book Launch: On December 4, 2025, from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. CET Berlin time (December 4, 2025, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST Philadelphia time; December 5, 2025, 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. AEDT Sydney time), she will present the book online at the Global GLO 2025 Conference

• See LINK for details on how to participate online in the Global GLO 2025 Conference.
• More details about other time zones for this event see the information provided at the end of this post.

• For background on the book and on Booth, please read her short bio below and the accompanying interview.
• More information about the book and how to order it: Website of the author.

Short Bio

Alison L. Booth is an Australian labor economist and novelist whose career bridges rigorous research, institution-building, and literary authorship. She was born in Melbourne and raised in Sydney, and she earned an MSc (1980) and PhD (1984) from the London School of Economics, writing a dissertation on the microeconomics of trade unions and membership.

Over the subsequent decades she held academic posts across the United Kingdom before becoming Professor of Economics at the University of Essex in the mid-1990s; she joined the Australian National University in 2002 and is now Emeritus Professor as well as an ANU Public Policy Fellow (since 2012). Her research sits at the intersection of labor economics, experimental and behavioral economics, and the economics of gender, with publications in leading outlets including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the European Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Her monograph, The Economics of the Trade Union (Cambridge University Press, 1994; reprinted 2002), was selected as a Princeton University Economics Book of the Year in 1996.

She has led the profession as editor-in-chief of Labour Economics (1999–2004) and president of the European Association of Labour Economists (2006–2008), and she continues to contribute through various editorial-board services. Her distinctions include election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (2005), election to the Econometric Society (2019), and the Economic Society of Australia’s Distinguished Fellow Award (2017).

In parallel with her academic work, Booth has developed a distinctive voice as a novelist of historical and social worlds. Her titles include Stillwater Creek (2010), The Indigo Sky (2011), A Distant Land (2012), A Perfect Marriage (2018), The Philosopher’s Daughters (2020), The Painting (2021), Bellevue (2023), and Death at Booroomba (2025). This dual profile, grounded in evidence-based economics and enriched by storytelling, underpins her ongoing engagement with public policy and research translation.

The INTERVIEW with questions by Klaus F. Zimmermann

From Economics to Fiction: You have spent years as a professor of economics. What sparked your transition from analyzing labor markets to crafting sound historical literature? Was there a moment that made you say, “Now I write novels”? How did you know that it was not just a sabbatical experiment?

• Alison L. Booth: I had always wanted to write a novel – some sort of drive at self-expression, I suppose. My father, whose own novel was published in 2002, supported me in my writing ambitions. Initially I wrote short stories and novel-writing followed. My first publisher, Penguin Random House, nudged me into a three-book deal and, after recovering from that shock, I developed a habit of writing. I didn’t view fiction writing as a career-change but I did view it as an activity that I might enjoy after retirement when I would have more time for contemplation.

Bridging Two Worlds: Has your background in economics influenced your storytelling, perhaps in how you find topics, build characters, explore social dynamics, or structure suspense?

• Alison L. Booth: The analytical thinking that is necessary to become an economist is very useful for plot construction but what is lacking in economics – but is essential in good fiction – is evocative writing and emotional depth. This is not to say economists are unemotional: there are plenty of examples of deeply compassionate individuals attracted into labour economics and other sub-fields of our discipline.

Literary Milestones: Several of your seven earlier novels have appeared with Penguin Random House. What did these publishing experiences teach you about your audience? What has surprised you most about the literary world compared to academia?

• Alison L. Booth: Publishing with PRH, one of the Big Five publishers, made me realise that large publishing houses’ acquisition boards are dominated by marketing executives and accountants. The bottom line for an author at one of the Big Five is how many copies your most recent book sold. While small independent fiction publishers are more likely than the Big Five to take risks with their authors, they are also more likely to go into liquidation.

Place as a pressure cooker: Your fiction often returns to small-town Australia with vivid details. What draws you to these settings, and how do they shape the emotional and moral landscape of your stories?

• Alison L. Booth: I view small-town Australia as a microcosm of Australian society where it is perfectly natural to have in a single location a diverse set of individuals from different classes, religious backgrounds and  ethnicities. Such individuals inevitably meet one another – the town is like a stage  – and diverse individuals make characters and conflicts more interesting. Introducing a newcomer to a small town is a handy way making things happen. Moreover, the small-town situation offers a wonderful setting for a murder mystery. But I have published three novels in very different locations – Sydney and Budapest, London, and the remote colonial outback.

Inside “Death at Booroomba”: Set in Australia around WWI, the novel opens with Jack O’Rourke saving a drowning man in Sydney Harbor. Later, as a returning soldier, he inherits the man’s property and a murder mystery unfolds. What sparked that premise, and which themes, such as trauma, trust in institutions, or class, drove your writing?

• Alison L. Booth: I wanted to offer my protagonist Jack O’Rourke an opportunity to recover from his traumatic wartime experiences by tracking down the murderer of the old man whom he’d saved prewar from drowning and who had in turn been kind to him. In so doing Jack would see there could be some justice in a topsy-turvy world and some possibility of restoration of institutional trust.  Writing this novel connected me to earlier generations of Australians and also to the history I had studied as a schoolgirl.

Why economists should read this: What will an academic economist or a policy researcher recognize in Death at Booroomba about, for example, incentives, information asymmetry, or institutional failure? If you had to pitch the book to a seminar room, what’s the one insight you think they will argue about after reading? Is this different from what you expect general readers to take away?

• Alison L. Booth: Academic economists will recognize in Death at Booroomba rent-seeking with asymmetric information, principal-agent problems associated with policing a remote community, and institutional failure when a young doctor is unable to distinguish murder from a death in a pandemic. I believe these issues are far more likely to be recognized as such by academic economists than the average non-economist.

Advice for the Crossroads: What advice would you give to professionals considering a creative leap, whether in academia or elsewhere? What have you learned about risk, reinvention, and resilience through your journey?

• Alison L. Booth: Professional economists have a big advantage in the sense that establishing a career in academic economics develops writing skills and also teaches resilience and a willingness to take creative risks – though of course individuals with those characteristics and an obsession with ideas have arguably self-selected into the discipline. As an economist I also know that a young person starting out with the goal of writing fiction full-time would be following an incredibly risky strategy. My advice is don’t do it until you are well-established in your profession.  

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: November 5, 2025) for online and in-person presentations at the conference see LINK.

More information about the Kuznets Prize & previous prize winners.

Biographical Abstract

Claudio Costanzo is a researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and a PhD candidate at ECARES (ULB). His research spans labor and demographic economics, and behavioral/applied microeconomics, with a focus on how technological change shapes population dynamics, household decision-making, and labour market outcomes. His work aims to connect micro-level evidence with quantitative models to inform policy design and evaluation.

Paper Abstract

The paper examines how industrial robots influence the timing of childbirth in Europe. Higher exposure to robots is associated with earlier fertility in low- and high-skilled regional labor markets and with a delay in medium-skilled ones. The underlying mechanisms are rationalized through a model of fertility, parameterized with data on individuals’ expectations about the displacement and creation of jobs due to automation. Variations in the simulated timing of childbirth are associated with corresponding changes in childlessness rates. The results establish a link between the Routine-Biased Technological Change hypothesis and demographic behavior.

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Liqiu Zhao is also a co-organizer of the 8th Renmin University of China – GLO Annual Conference on “Micro Population Economics and Human Relations”, 1-2 November 2025, Beijing, China, which is also supported by the Journal.

The Journal also supports: GLO-JOPE Conference Bonn & Global – December 3-5, 2025. CALL FOR PAPERS in all areas of population economics. Submission Deadline November 5, 2025.

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New GLO Discussion Papers of September 2025

1672 Property Rights and Violence: Evidence from the End of the American West – Download PDF
by Petach, Luke

1671 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation and Cognitive Decline among Older Americans – Download PDF
by Da, Linlin & Jin, Zhezheng & Xu, Qianhui & Renzi-Hammond, Lisa M. & Chen, Zhuo & Khan, M. Mahmud & Rajbhandari-Thapa, Janani & Chen, Xi & Wu, Bei & Song, Suhang

1670 AI Business Applications Training and Business Outcomes: An Inclusive Intervention for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

1669 The impact of citizenship on intermarriage: evidence from Italy – Download PDF
by Balsimelli Ghelli, Bianca & Gallo, Giovanni

1668 The Formation of AI Capital in Higher Education: Enhancing Students’ Academic Performance and Employment Rates – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

1667 Meaningful Work: An Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Perspective – Download PDF
by Lysova, Evgenia I. & Fletcher, Luke

1666 Early Effects of Cognitive-Impairment Friendly Community on Health Care Utilization in China: Evidence from Administrative Data – Download PDF
by Ai, Jingyi & Chen, Xi & Feng, Jin & Xie, Yufei

1665 Quality, Safety, and Disparities of AI Chatbots in Managing Chronic Diseases: Experimental Evidence – Download PDF
by Si, Yafei & Meng, Yurun & Chen, Xi & An, Ruopeng & Mao, Limin & Li, Bingqin & Bateman, Hazel & Zhang, Han & Fan, Hongbin & Zu, Jiaqi & Gong, Shaoqing & Zhou, Zhongliang & Miao, Yudong & Fan, Xiaojing & Chen, Gang

1664 Factories and Fertility: The Impact of Manufacturing Growth on Son Preference – Download PDF
by Bhukta, Rikhia

1663 Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental Evidence from Ukraine – Download PDF
by Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys & Gresham, James & Lemos, Renata & Patrinos, Harry A. & Rodriguez-Ramirez, Rony

1662 Banning the bottle, shifting the balance: Impact of Reduced Alcohol Consumption on Women’s Agency – Download PDF
by Mookerjee, Mehreen & Ojha, Manini & Roy, Sanket & Yadav, Kartik

1661 The Whole and Its Parts: Stoic Ethics in Simple Coordination Games – Download PDF
by Ponthiere, Gregory

1660 The Heterosis Effect in Human Capital and Wealth Accumulation – Download PDF
by Zhu, Chen & Böckerman, Petri

1659 The Impact of Paid Paternity Leave Reforms on Divorce Rates in Europe – Download PDF
by Morales, Marina

1658 The Native Mobility Response to Rising Refugees and Migrants in Turkey – Download PDF
by Bilge, Nur & Naiditch, Claire

1657 The economics of meaningful work: A scoping review – Download PDF
by Hendriks, Martijn & Cnossen, Femke

1656 Empowering Women Digitally: A Randomised Controlled Trial on Digital Financial Literacy and Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Pakistan – Download PDF
by Andlib, Zubaria

These are our authors:

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As the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE), Klaus F. Zimmermann was invited to speak on September 19, 2025 at the Springer Nature Editor Summit in Heidelberg about the success story of the journal. On January 2024, JOPE introduced Continous Article Publishing (CAP) to ensure fast and efficient publication of accepted manuscripts. At the same time, it started a larger number of article Collections to signal topics of interest to generate extra high quality submissions. Recently, Zimmermann had received the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2025. Below see number of submissions to the journal, 2011 to 2025.

Note: 2020/2021: Larger number of transfer desk submissions. 2025: Predicted based on actual numbers on September 17, 2025.

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New GLO Discussion Papers of August 2025

1655 Effects of Information Provision on Undocumented Migration to Europe: Evidence from a Survey Experiment – Download PDF
by Lafleur, Jean-Michel & Marfouk, Abdeslam

1654 Complementary Funding: How Location Links Crowdfunding and Venture Capital – Download PDF
by Klarl, Torben & Kritikos, Alexander S. & Poghosyan, Knarik

1653 Causal Returns to Education – Download PDF
by Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Psacharopoulos, George

1652 The Meaning and Meaningfulness of Work – the View from Sociology – Download PDF
by Gallie, Duncan & Zhou, Ying

1651 The Transformation of the Institute in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century: The Unity of Research and Policy Advice. The Realignment of DIW Berlin – Download PDF
by Kritikos, Alexander & Stock, Günter & Zimmermann, Klaus F.

1650 Rural Roads and Firm Outcomes in India – Download PDF
by Nandwani, Bharti & Roychowdhury, Punarjit & Shankar, Binay

1649 Migration shocks and voting: Evidence from Ukrainian migration to Poland – Download PDF
by Mykhailyshyna, Dariia & Zuchowski, David

1648 Later Sunset, Better Health? – Download PDF
by Kulshreshtha, Shobhit & Bhattacharya, Leena & Ayyagari, Padmaja

1647 Social Capital Shapes the Relationship Between Well-being and Spending – Download PDF
by Wu, Fengyu & Sarracino, Francesco

1646 Estimator of What? A Note on Teaching Regressions in Introductory Econometrics – Download PDF
by Goel, Deepti

1645 Work orientations and economics – Download PDF
by Nikolova, Milena

1644 What do we teach in Macroeconomics? Evidence of a theoretical discrepancy – Download PDF
by Courtoy, François & De Vroey, Michel & Turati, Riccardo

1643 Management Practices, Workplace Health Promotion and Productivity – Download PDF
by Jirjahn, Uwe & Mohrenweiser, Jens

1642 Beyond the vows: Understanding the causal link between age at marriage and anxiety in Nepal – Download PDF
by Babbar, Karan & Dhamija, Gaurav & Ojha, Manini & Yadav, Kartik

1641 Power Through Autonomy: How Women Gain Voice in Household Decisions – Download PDF
by Mookerjee, Mehreen & Ojha, Manini

1640 Rowing with and against the flow: fatherhood of daughters and perception about women – Download PDF
by Okara, Assi & Tani, Massimiliano & Mbaye, Linguère Mously

1639 Green Jobs and Meaningful Work – Download PDF
by Landini, Fabio & Lunardon, Davide & Marzucchi, Alberto

1638 Sweets for my sweet: The impact of partner unemployment on individual physical health – Download PDF
by Gallo, Giovanni & Ubaldi, Michele

1637 An Analysis of Slaveholders According to the 1850 Census – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry R. & Robinson, RaeAnn H.

1636 Lost Highway: Segmented and Precarious Employment of Migrants in the Green Transition – Download PDF
by Landini, Fabio & Lunardon, Davide & Rinaldi, Riccardo & Tredicine, Luigi

1635 Impact of Air Pollution on Birth Outcomes: Causal Evidence from India – Download PDF
by Misra, Shashank & Kulshreshtha, Shobhit

1634 Disentangling loneliness and trust in populist voting behaviour in Europe – Download PDF
by Berlingieri, Francesco & d’Hombres, Béatrice & Kovacic, Matija

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Final: PROGRAM PDF (Call is closed). See also: LINK

The 8th Renmin University of China – GLO Conference provides a platform for researchers working on topics related to Micro Population Economics and Human Relations: Personality, Subjective Beliefs, Feelings, Norms, Preferences, Stereotypes, and AI Adaption.

Beyond this focus, submissions on topics such as migration and other demographic issues, household and family economics, health and well-being, education and human capital, environment, labor market discrimination, and labor market policies are also considered.

The event is jointly organized by the School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and supported by the Journal of Population Economics. It will take place on November 1-2, 2025 at Renmin University of China, Beijing.

There are no conference fees. Travel and accommodation need to be covered and arranged by participants. The School of Labor and Human Resources will offer catered lunch and refreshments throughout the event and conference dinner on November 1.

Keynote speakers
Suqin Ge (Virginia Tech and GLO)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT and GLO)

Submissions
You are invited to submit papers or extended abstracts by September 20, 2025 at renmin-glo@ruc.edu.cn.
Selected participants will be notified by September 30, 2025.
To join the GLO, please visit: https://glabor.org/join-the-glo/

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Associate Editors

• Rufei Guo, Wuhan University, China
  
• Nils-Petter Lagerlöf, York University, Canada
  
• Massimiliano Tani, UNSW Canberra, Australia
  
• Sunčica Vujic, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  
• Nicolas Ziebarth, University of Mannheim and ZEW, Germany    

Advisory Board

Richard Layard, London School of Economics, UK
His advice will further strengthen JOPE’s “Wellbeing and Happiness Collection“.

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JOPE invites contributions to its collection on Statistics & Measurement of Population Economics. This collection fosters research on the production of meaningful and innovative measurement capturing important demographic and wellbeing concepts to support economic analysis and policy evaluations.

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Ten discussion papers from July 2025 on economic education, natural disasters, Big Five personality traits, consumption & population, minimum wage & cognitive disabilities, housing affordability, nutrition, life expectancy, affirmative action policies, green jobs, and weather-related home damage.

New GLO Research DPs July 2025

1633 Using RCTs in Economic Education Research – Download PDF
by Pugatch, Todd & Schroeder, Elizabeth

1632 The distributional effects of natural disasters on the Big Five personality traits – Download PDF
by Ha Trong Nguyen & Mitrou, Francis

1631 The Consumption Effects of Population Concentration – Download PDF
by Cai, Zhengyu & Yan, Yu

1630 Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment of Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry & Corman, Hope & Dave, Dhaval & Reichman, Nancy E.

1629 Zoning Reforms and Housing Affordability: Evidence from the Minneapolis 2040 Plan – Download PDF
by Gu, Helena & Munro, David

1628 Nutritional Benefits of Fostering: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in South Africa – Download PDF
by Dumas, Christelle & Gautrain, Elsa & Gosselin-Pali, Adrien

1627 Career Arduousness and [Healthy] Life Expectancy in Europe: An assessment based on SHARE and O*NET data – Download PDF
by Vandenberghe, Vincent

1626 Re-exhuming the old hatchet: The effects of affirmative action policies on political preferences in post-apartheid South Africa– Download PDF
by Belmonte, Alessandro & Ticchi, Davide & Ubaldi, Michele

1625 Green Jobs and the Green Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Labor Market Analysis Using Job Vacancy Data– Download PDF
by García-Suaza, Andres & Caiza-Guamán, Pamela & Sarango-Iturralde, Alexander & Romero-Torres, Bernardo & Buitrago, Catalina

1624 Inconsistencies in self-reported weather-related home damage among household members– Download PDF
by Nguyen, Ha Trong & Mitrou, Francis

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The intensive week started on July 7 with participating in a public lecture of Nobel Prize Laureate Joshua D. Angrist of MIT on “Intentions are Good but Instrumental Variables is Better: Rescuing Real-World Randomized Trials”. What an impressive and insightful talk!

Picture left (center): Klaus F. Zimmermann, Josh Angrist, Jinan University Rector Feng Xing, IESR Dean Shuaizhang Feng.
Picture right: Klaus F. Zimmermann, Josh Angrist

On July 8, Zimmermann gave a lecture to IESR junior faculty and students on “Publishing in International Research Journals” and interacted with IESR senior faculty including IESR Dean Shuaizhang Feng. On July 9 and 10 followed meetings with GLO Fellows Shu Cai, Qing Pei and Max Tani.

The 8th IESR-GLO joint workshop on “Fertility decline and family policies” took place on July 10-11, 2025, in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. It was organized in co-operation with the Journal of Population Economics and collected a selection of great research papers on the topic.

Final Program

Left below: Klaus F. Zimmermann, Shuaizhang Feng, Max Tani & Sen Xue

Day 1, July 10
12:00-13:30 PM Lunch

13:30-13:45 PM Welcome
Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) & IESR-GLO Collaboration
Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University and GLO, JOPE Editor
Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT and GLO, JOPE Editor-in-Chief

Session I
Chair: Shuaizhang Feng

13:45-14:30 PM
Title: The Economics of Fertility Decline
Author(s): Klaus F. Zimmermann (Free University Berlin & GLO)

14:30-15:15 PM
Title: Migration Reform and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Rural China
Author(s): Zhangfeng Jin (Zhejiang University of Technology & GLO)
         Wenchao Jin

15:15-15:45 Group Photo & Break

15:45-16:30 PM
Title: Catholic Missionary Presence and Fertility in India
Author(s): Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence & GLO)
Roopal Jain & Priyoma Mustafi

16:30-17:15 PM
Title: Automation and Fertility Transitions in China
Author(s): Yue Wang (Peking University and GLO)
Chen Kang (Tongji University) & Xiaobing Wang (Peking University)

17:30-19:30 PM Dinner

Day 2, July 11

Session II
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

9:00-9:45 AM
Title: Background Risk and Fertility
Author(s): Massimiliano Tani Bertuol (School of Business, UNSW & GLO)

9:45-10:30 AM
Title: Sex Ratio, Commitment and Power Distribution Within the Household: An Empirical Investigation of China’s One Child Policy
Author(s): Xiao Liu (Capital University of Economics and Business)
Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University) & Yaohui Zhao (Wuhan University & Peking University)

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:45 AM
Title: Family Planning Policy and Intimate Partner Violence
Author(s): Rufei Guo (Wuhan University and GLO)
Jiawei Sheng (Wuhan University), Ying Wang (Wuhan University) & Jingyuan Yang (Hong Kong Baptist University)

11:45-12:30 PM
Title: Climate Change and Migration across the Great Wall of China during the Little Ice Age
Author(s): Qing Pei (Hong Kong Polytechnic University & GLO)

12:30-14:00 PM Lunch

RELATED:

– Seventh Renmin University & GLO Annual Conference 2024 on Low Fertility & Population Aging. In collaboration with the Journal of Population Economics. LINK

– Hart, R.K., Bergsvik, J., Fauske, A., Kim, W. (2024). Causal Analysis of Policy Effects on Fertility. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham.
https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_451-1

– CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection Understanding Fertility Decline of the Journal of Population Economics. Details. See more related papers there.

– Costanzo, C. Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing. Journal of Population Economics 38, 51 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01105-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubHU
– Huang, W., Wang, Y., Wu, H. et al. The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study. Journal of Population Economics 38, 28 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01078-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJs
– Li, H., Shi, X. The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences. Journal of Population Economics 38, 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01061-y. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJ4
– Luo, W., Zou, X. Demographic impacts of China’s trade liberalization: marriage, spousal quality, and fertility. Journal of Population Economics 37, 63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01040-9. Free to read. https://rdcu.be/eubKD

– Victoria Vernon and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2021), “Walls and Fences: A Journey Through History and Economics”, in: Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P. and Partridge, M., The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration, Springer, Heidelberg et al., pp. 33-54; GLO Discussion Paper No. 33o, 2019. Pre-publication version. Published. More info on book.

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The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities to present new research, exchange information, and discuss current issues. Although the focus is on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly encouraged. The conference will be held as a hybrid event, allowing participants to present via the Zoom platform and in person.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is September 16, 2025.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than September 16, 2025.

For submission, please visit the website at
https://ebesweb.org/53rd-ebes-conference-madrid/53rd-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers will be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in the USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: October 16-18, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 16, 2025
Reply-by: September 19, 2025*
Registration Deadline: September 23, 2025
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: September 23, 2025
Announcement of the Program: September 28, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): September 24, 2025**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: December 15, 2025

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before September 16, 2025, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by September 24, 2025.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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Program

Day 1, July 10
12:00-13:30 PM Lunch

13:30-13:45 PM Welcome
Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) & IESR-GLO Collaboration
Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University and GLO, JOPE Editor
Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT and GLO, JOPE Editor-in-Chief

Session I
Chair: Shuaizhang Feng

13:45-14:30 PM
Title: The Economics of Fertility Decline
Author(s): Klaus F. Zimmermann (Free University Berlin & GLO)

14:30-15:15 PM
Title: Migration Reform and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Rural China
Author(s): Zhangfeng Jin (Zhejiang University of Technology & GLO)
         Wenchao Jin

15:15-15:45 Group Photo & Break

15:45-16:30 PM
Title: Catholic Missionary Presence and Fertility in India
Author(s): Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence)
Roopal Jain & Priyoma Mustafi

16:30-17:15 PM
Title: Climate Change and Migration across the Great Wall of China during the Little Ice Age
Author(s): Qing Pei (Education University of Hong Kong & GLO)

18:30-20:30 PM Dinner (By invitation)

Day 2, July 11

Session II
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

9:00-9:45 AM
Title: Background Risk and Fertility
Author(s): Massimiliano Tani Bertuol (School of Business, UNSW, & GLO)

9:45-10:30 AM
Title: Sex Ratio, Commitment and Power Distribution Within the Household: An Empirical Investigation of China’s One Child Policy
Author(s): Xiao Liu (Capital University of Economics and Business)

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:45 AM
Title: Family Planning Policy and Intimate Partner Violence
Author(s): Rufei Guo (Wuhan University and GLO)

11:45-12:30 PM
Title: Automation and Fertility Transitions in China
Author(s): Yue Wang (Peking University and GLO)
Chen Kang (Tongji University) & Xiaobing Wang (Peking University)

12:30-14:00 PM Lunch

RELATED:
– Seventh Renmin University & GLO Annual Conference 2024 on Low Fertility & Population Aging. In collaboration with the Journal of Population Economics. LINK
– Hart, R.K., Bergsvik, J., Fauske, A., Kim, W. (2024). Causal Analysis of Policy Effects on Fertility. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_451-1
– CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection Understanding Fertility Decline of the Journal of Population Economics. Details. See more related papers there.
– Costanzo, C. Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing. Journal of Population Economics 38, 51 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01105-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubHU
– Huang, W., Wang, Y., Wu, H. et al. The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study. Journal of Population Economics 38, 28 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01078-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJs
– Li, H., Shi, X. The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences. Journal of Population Economics 38, 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01061-y. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJ4
– Luo, W., Zou, X. Demographic impacts of China’s trade liberalization: marriage, spousal quality, and fertility. Journal of Population Economics 37, 63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01040-9. Free to read. https://rdcu.be/eubKD

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Seven discussion papers from June 2025 on social origins, healthcare utilization of refugees, education and earnings, indirect taxation and in-kind benefits in the EU, life satisfaction in Eastern Europe, smog and suicidal ideation among kids in school, policy threats and gains for recipients.

New GLO Research DPs June 2025

1623 Social Origins and Field of Study– Download PDF
by Scervini, Francesco & Volponi, Laura

1622 The Effect of Initial Location Assignment on Healthcare Utilization of Refugees – Download PDF
by Kulshreshtha, Shobhit

1621  Education and Earnings in Arkansas – Download PDF
by Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Rivera, Angelica

1620 Net Fiscal Contributions in the EU – The role of indirect taxation and in-kind benefits – Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & Köppl-Turyna, Monika

1619 Are We Happy Yet? Revisiting Life Satisfaction in Eastern Europe – Download PDF
by Mladjan, Mrdjan & Nikolova, Elena

1618 Blowin’ in the Wind: Smog and Suicidal Ideation among School-Age Children – Download PDF
by Zhang, Xin & Chen, Xi & Sun, Hong & Yang, Yuanjian

1617 DACA’s Uncertain Path: How Policy Threats Reshape Economic and Social Gains for Recipients – Download PDF
by Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina & Wang, Chunbei

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Eleven discussion papers from May 2025 on state dependence in social assistance, workweek reform, Mariel Boatlift and women, wellbeing and compliance, unlocking global markets, monetary roots of exploitation, abortion policies and fertility, community-living older persons, physician-patient gender match, work permits in Colombia, and nudging eyeglass use among children.

New GLO Research DPs May 2025

1615 Structural State Dependence in Social Assistance through the Lens of Couples’ Ethnic Composition. Evidence from Swedish Panel Data – Download PDF
by Andrén, Daniela & Andrén, Thomas & Kahanec, Martin

1614 Working 37.5 hours per week: Who Truly Gains from Spain’s new Workweek reform? – Download PDF
by Narazani, Edlira

1613 Evaluating the Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes: A Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Analysis – Download PDF
by Wang, Yifan & Wang, Chunbei & Holmes, Chanita

1612 Experienced well-being and compliance behaviour: new applications of Quality of Life theories, using AI and real-time data – Download PDF
by Rossouw, Stephanié & Greyling, Talita

1611 Unlocking Global Markets: The Impact of International Standards Certification on Pakistani Firms’ Export Performance – Download PDF
by Wadho, Waqar & Chaudhry, Azam

1610 An Essay on the Monetary Roots of Exploitation – Download PDF
by Andini, Corrado

1609 The Effect of Abortion Policies on Fertility and Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa – Download PDF
by Dimico, Arcangelo

1608 Absence of Care Among Community-Living Older Persons with Dementia and Disabilities: A Cross-National Analysis of Population Survey from 22 Countries – Download PDF
by Lin, Zhuoer & Qian, Yuting & Gill, Thomas M. & Hou, Xiaohui & Allore, Heather & Chen, Shanquan & Chen, Xi

1607 The Impact of Physician-Patient Gender Match on Healthcare Quality: An Experiment in China – Download PDF
by Si, Yafei & Chen, Gang & Zhou, Zhongliang & Yip, Winnie & Chen, Xi

1606 From Exodus to Employment: Labor Market Transitions and the Role of Work Permits in Colombia – Download PDF
by García-Suaza, Andres & Mondragón-Mayo, Angie & Sarango-Iturralde, Alexander

1605 Nudging Eyeglass Use Among Children: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Vietnam – Download PDF
by Cuong Viet Nguyen & Quynh Thien Thi Pham & Tung Duc Phung

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The JOPE CiteScore 2024 (Scopus)  is 8.7.

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The application deadline is August 15, 2025, 5 PM GMT.
For general information see GLO VirtYS Website.

DETAILS – Abstract

The 2025–26 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS) is a 10-month international research and mentoring initiative designed for early-career scholars committed to producing policy-relevant, high-quality academic work. Starting on October 1, 2025, selected participants will join a global cohort as GLO Affiliate and receive individual guidance from thematic cluster advisors, structured feedback on their research, and opportunities to present their findings within the GLO community. Upon successful completion by July 30, 2026, scholars will have the opportunity to submit their work to the GLO Discussion Paper Series and may be considered for appointment as a GLO Fellow.

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2025-26 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)

About GLO: The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is a global, independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that has no institutional position. The GLO functions as an international network and virtual platform for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and the general public interested in scientific research and its policy and societal implications on global labor markets, demographic challenges and human resources. These topics are defined broadly in line with its Mission to embrace the global diversity of labor markets, institutions, and policy challenges, covering advanced economies as well as transition and less developed countries.

Program’s Goal: In the spirit of the GLO Mission, the GLO VirtYS program’s goal is to contribute to the development of the future generation of researchers, who are committed to the creation of policy-relevant research, are well equipped to work in collaboration with policy makers and other stakeholders, and adhere to the highest standards of academic integrity. This goal is achieved through the process of working on a specific research paper within the duration of the program, which is 10 months starting from October 1, 2025.

Program’s Advisory Board:

• Jan van Ours, Professor of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam, Netherlands, & Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Marie Claire Villeval, Research Professor, CNRS GATE, France
• Marco Vivarelli, Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano and Director of the Department of Economic Policy, Italy
• Le Wang, David M. Kohl Chair and Professor, Director of the Kohl Centre, Virginia Tech, USA
• Klaus F. Zimmermann, Professor Emeritus, Bonn University, Free University Berlin, UNU-MERIT & President of GLO

Program’s Activities:

• Virtual kick-off meeting of all the participants and Thematic Cluster advisors, who will be appointed by the participating Cluster leads to match closely participants’ research interests.
• One-to-one activities with the Thematic Cluster Advisor will be agreed upon at the beginning of the scholarship period in an Individual Research Plan. These activities at a minimum shall include 2-3 virtual consultations, 1 review round of the completed research work and a discussion of the amendments (if needed) to follow up.
• Provide a virtual platform for the GLO VirtYS program participants to present their findings and receive feedback from their peers and the GLO wider community.
• The scholarship will conclude in July 2026 followed by the presentations by the scholars within the GLO-wide seminar series in September 2026, after which the GLO Management Board will make a decision on whether to extend an invitation to the graduate of the GLO Virtual Scholar Program to join the organization as a GLO Fellow, based on the recommendation from their Thematic Cluster Advisors and evaluation of the GLO VirtYS Advisory Board.

Research proposals are invited related to any of the GLO Research and Policy Clusters: see Thematic Clusters I and Thematic Clusters II. 

Benefits to the GLO VYSP Scholars:

• All GLO VirtYS program participants will become GLO Affiliates, if they are not already, and receive a GLO Bio page.
• GLO VirtYS program participants will be listed on the www.glabor.org website of the program.
• Feedback on their research from leading researchers in the area of their interest.
• Networking opportunities with researchers from other countries within the same area and beyond
• (Priority) access to GLO activities.
• Interactions with the scholars of the cohort, program’s alumni, and the future cohorts.
• Opportunity to promote own research via GLO channels.
• Completed research paper ready for submission to the GLO Discussion Paper series.
• Possibility of promotion to GLO Fellow after exceptional performance.

Eligibility criteria:

• Applicant must be either currently enrolled in a doctoral program or be within 2 years after graduation as evidenced by the letter from the degree awarding institution or a degree certificate.
• Applicant must be at an advanced stage of the analysis of a specific research question within the corresponding GLO Thematic Cluster to which he/she is applying as evidenced by the submitted draft.
• Applicant must be supported by a letter of endorsement from either one of the GLO Fellows or from the administration of one of the GLO supporting institutions.

How to apply: all application materials have to be submitted online. If there are any questions, please write to o.nizalova@kent.ac.uk.

Selection procedure:

The GLO Virtual Young Scholars will be selected by a Scientific Selection Committee consisting of the GLO VirtYS Program Director, GLO thematic cluster leads participating in the current year, and a member of the GLO Management Board.

The results of the selection will be posted on the GLO site www.glabor.org by September 22, 2025. Scholars will be notified via email. In the 2025-26 academic year we expect to select 5-7 scholars.

The final research paper should be submitted by July 30, 2026, by 5 pm GMT.

Upon completion of the program and based on the quality of the produced research paper, some of the GLO VirtYS programme graduates may be invited to become GLO Fellows and their paper accepted as a GLO Discussion Paper.

Evaluation criteria for applications:

1. Research excellence (50 points)
2. Policy relevance of the research question in a local and/or global context (25 points)
3. Potential for capacity development (25 points) (preference will be given to the applicants for which the GLO Young Scholars Program can bring the highest capacity development, compared to what the applicant would have achieved without being a GLO Young Scholar)

Application procedure:

Many applicants apply in the last days before the submission deadline. To avoid last minute problems, we ask applicants to apply in advance. Applications received after the deadline or applications that do not meet the requirements set out below will not be accepted.

To apply please complete the online application form with three attachments:

1. Research proposal (maximum 2 pages including references, single-spaced, font size 12) should include the following information:

• Formulation of the problem/ research question.
• Research methodology (data and empirical approach).
• (Potential) Practical/Policy implications.
• Reference list.

2. 2-page CV

3. Transcript from the doctoral program or doctoral degree certificate

4. Letter of endorsement for the candidate and the research proposal from either one of the GLO fellows or from the administration of one of the GLO supporting institutions reflecting on the potential of the candidate to benefit from the Program and the merits of the research proposal.

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Twenty-four discussion papers from April 2025 on AI & the labor market, youth mental health in a developing country, Jewish occupational attainment, bankruptcies during Covid, gender-specific application, intimate partner violence, Chinese internal migration policies, spatial dependence in Okun’s law, assimilation in the US, arduous jobs & migrants, telecare & elderly mortality, working longer hours, fiscal policies in the eurozone, Ukrainian refugees, childhood maltreatment, regional disparities, compulsory schooling laws, fertility in India, business visits and R&D, endogenous depopulation, informality, interaction effects with panel data, trust & sexual behavior, immigration & partnership dynamics.

New GLO Research DPs April 2025

1604 Unequal Impacts of AI on Colombia’s Labor Market: An Analysis of AI Exposure, Wages, and Job Dynamics – Download PDF
by Garcia-Suaza, Andrés & Sarango-Iturralde, Alexander & Caiza-Guamán, Pamela & Gil Díaz, Mateo & Acosta Castillo, Dana

1603 Breaking the Scroll (BTS): A Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health in the Context of a Developing Economy – Download PDF
by Andlib, Zubaria

1602 Jewish occupational attainment in the antebellum United States: Filling a gap in the literature – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry R. & Robinson, RaeAnn H.

1601 Bankruptcies during Covid-19 in Italy: An interrupted time-series analysis – Download PDF
by Ferri, Valentina & Gallo, Giovanni & Scicchitano, Sergio

1600 Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap – Download PDF
by Lochner, Benjamin & Merkl, Christian

1599 The Double-Edged Sword: How Women’s Financial Inclusion Affects Intimate Partner Violence in India – Download PDF
by Shreemoyee, Shreemoyee & Roychowdhury, Punarjit & Dhamija, Gaurav

1598 The Health Impacts of Relaxing Internal Migration Policies: Quasi-experimental Evidence from China – Download PDF
by Wu, Fengyu & Wang, Julia Shu-Huah & You, Jing & Teitler, Julien

1597 Heterogeneity and spatial dependence in Okun’s law: a global view – Download PDF
by Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel & Martín-Román, Ángel & Porras-Arena, Sylvina

1596 A Historical Note on the Assimilation Rates of Foreign-Born Men and Women in the U.S – Download PDF
by Duleep, Harriet & Dowhan, Dan & Liu, Xingfei & Regets, Mark & Gesumaria, Robert

1595 In Europe, Arduous Jobs Fall On First-Generation Migrants. But Later Generations Benefit From Improved Opportunities – Download PDF
by Vandenberghe, Vincent

1594 Telecare and Elderly Mortality: Evidence from Italian Municipalities – Download PDF
by Matteucci, Nicola & Picchio, Matteo & Santolini, Raffaella & Yebetchou Tchounkeu, Rostand Arland

1593 Who Works Longer Hours in Smart Cities? – Download PDF
by Cai, Zhengyu

1592 Austerity and asymmetries in the fiscal policies of the eurozone – Download PDF
by Bajo-Rubio, Oscar & Gómez-Plana, Antonio G.

1591 Self-selection on human capital for Ukrainian refugees in Belgium – Download PDF
by Berlinschi, Ruxanda & Verhaest, Dieter & Poelmans, Eline & Adriaenssens, Stef

1590 Beyond Higher Education: University Establishments and Childhood Maltreatment – Download PDF
by Li, Yanjun & Liu, Xinyan & Tanaka, Ryuichi

1589 Fade into the Shadows: Adjustments in Administrative Divisions and Regional Disparities – Download PDF
by Jie, Yangyang & Zhang, Peikang & Shen, Tiyan

1588 Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Affect Fertility Behaviors and Marriages? Evidence from India – Download PDF
by Bhattacharjee, Sandipa

1587 COVID-19 Lockdowns and Childbirth Delivery Care in India – Download PDF
by Bhattacharjee, Sandipa & Alam, Shamma Adeeb & Bose, Bijetri

1586 The role of business visits in fostering R&D investment – Download PDF
by Vivarelli, Marco & Piva, Mariacristina & Tani, Massimiliano

1585 Endogenous Depopulation And Economic Growth – Download PDF
by Bucci, Alberto & Prettner, Klaus

1584 Marginalized Agency or Agency at the Margins: Domestic Workers and Informality – Download PDF
by Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi & Lavee, Einat

1583 Estimating interaction effects with panel data – Download PDF
by Muris, Chris & Wacker, Konstantin M.

1582 Trust behaviour of sexual minorities: Evidence from a large-scale trust game experiment – Download PDF
by Berlingieri, Francesco & Kovacic, Matija & Stepanova, Elena

1581 Immigration, Partnership Dynamics and Welfare Persistence – Download PDF
by Andrén, Daniela & Andrén, Thomas & Kahanec, Martin

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Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences Jianxun Lyu

Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India Gaurav Dhamija, Punarjit Roychowdhury, Binay Shankar

Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types? Christine Ho, Kathleen McGarry

High-speed internet and socioemotional wellbeing in adolescence and youth Karina Colombo, Elisa Failache, Martina Querejeta

Pension reforms, longer working horizons, and absence from work Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Lorenzo Rocco

The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men: 1970–2019  Ioannis Kospentaris, Leslie S. Stratton

The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences  Hongbin Li, Xinzheng Shi

Issue 1 March 2025 Issue 2 June 2025 Journal of Population Economics

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