3rd Welfare & Policy conference
We are pleased to invite submissions to the 3rd edition of the Welfare & Policy Conference organized by the Society for research on Welfare and Policy, the research program HOPE & the Bordeaux School of Economics.
Our societies are facing unprecedented political, climatic, demographic and technological challenges. Democratic polarization, climate change, population ageing and the rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence are transforming the way people work, consume, care, vote and interact. Understanding these transformations, and designing policies that promote well-being, equity and resilience, requires rigorous evidence from economics and the social sciences.
The Welfare & Policy Conference welcomes contributions that improve our understanding of individual and collective behavior, well-being, inequality and public policy. We invite theoretical, empirical and methodological papers from economics, quantitative social psychology and political science, particularly (but not exclusively) on the following topics:
- Labor markets, family policies and nonmarket time
- Health, mental health, care and human development
- Poverty, inequality and social mobility
- Tax-benefit systems, social insurance and the welfare state
- Behavioral responses to political, climatic and technological shocks
- Trust, beliefs, emotions, social norms and political behavior
- Social media, misinformation, AI and democratic resilience
- Climate change, adaptation and environmental behavior
- Migration, demographic change and social cohesion
- Normative contributions to policy evaluation and welfare analysis
Keynote speakers: t.b.a.
Submission guideline: A full paper or an abstract must be sent before February 1, 2027 to contact@wapsociety.org (the name of the pdf file should begin with the corresponding author’s last name). We also encourage submissions of complete sessions (4 papers) with indication of the name of the corresponding chairperson. Decisions will be communicated by Feb 15th and registrations will be opened until April 15th.
Scientific committee: Alpaslan Akay (Gothenburg Univ.), Emmanuelle Augeraud-Veron (Bordeaux School of Economics), Olivier Bargain (Bordeaux School of Economics), Tanguy Bernard (Bordeaux School of Economics), Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics), Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon), Olivier Donni (Cergy-Pontoise Univ.), Koen Decancq (Antwerp Univ.), Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics), Xavier Jara (London School of Economics), Florence Jusot (Dauphine Univ.), Michał Myck (CenEA, Szczecin), Andreas Peichl (CESifo & Munich Univ.), Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics), Patricia Justino (UNU-WIDER), Sandy Tubeuf (Louvain Univ.), Jérôme Wittwer (Bordeaux Population Health), Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics), Frederic Vermeulen (Leuven Univ.), Roberta Ziparo (Aix-Marseille Univ.), Nicolas Hérault (Bordeaux School of Economics), Christophe Leveque (Bordeaux School of Economics), Raphael Chiappini (Bordeaux School of Economics), Piero Basaglia (Bordeaux School of Economics), Cristina Badarau (Bordeaux School of Economics), Maria C. Lo Bue (Trieste University).
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For any question, please contact us at: contact@wapsociety.org