Call for papers – 2nd Welfare & Policy Conference
Call for papers
2nd Welfare & Policy Conference
May 5-6 2025, Bordeaux
The University of Bordeaux is pleased to invite submissions to the second edition of the Welfare & Policy Conference organized by the Society for research on Welfare and Policy (WAP) and the research program HOPE at the Bordeaux School of Economics .
In a troubled word, economics – and social sciences more generally – must provide evidence on what determines behaviors regarding life choices (health, work, care, etc.), voting (and shifts towards conservatism, populism or social protests), economic decisions (consumption, saving, etc.) or pro-environmental attitudes; what affects our well-being, health, mental health, emotions, perceptions and preferences; ultimately, what we should know and do to improve public policies for a better world. For this reason, we invite contributions in various fields of economics, quantitative social psychology and political sciences, and in particular on (but not restricted to):
- Labor and nonmarket time uses, post-Covid trends and the role of labor market policies and family policies
- Determinants of health & mental health, and the role of health and social systems
- Inequalities, their perception and the relation with well-being, political orientation, social unrest…
- New forms of poverty, adaptation and the limits of resilience
- How fiscal and social systems reduce inequality (across people or generations), quickly respond to shocks, or adapt to new inequalities (such as those engendered by climate change or forced migration)
- How shocks change behavior, trust, values…, and consequences for the sustainability of welfare systems
- Social media, the diffusion and manipulation of information, and life with populism
- Negative emotions and the tradeoff between security, freedom & democratic support
- Perception of global warming, green policies and behavioral changes versus inertia, denial, etc.
- Normative work on policy/political transformations aimed at promoting peace, democracy and stability.
The call for paper can be found here: https://wapsociety.org/event/
Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2025.