Building a Sustainable and Resilient Future: Addressing Demographic Challenges, Health and Gender Disparities, and Economic Inequality

Inequality is widely recognized as a major concern and one of the primary obstacles towards sustainable future and resilient societies. In recent decades, our world faced unprecedented demographic shifts including population aging, low fertility, and changing family and gender roles. These changes have been accompanied by significant health inequities (especially among older populations), gender imbalances and growing economic disparities.

This workshop aims to bring together leading experts from around the globe to discuss the latest research and facilitate the exchange of ideas in the fields of Public Policy and Labour and Family Economics including Human Capital Formation, Child Development, Health Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Household Economics, Gender Identity and Norms, Labour Market Outcomes, Policy Evaluation.

We will invite submissions of papers with both empirical and theoretical focus. Papers combining micro data and macro models are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

• inequality in general, including income, gender and health inequality,
• formation and dissolution of households,
• child development, education, and human capital accumulation,
• intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity,
• health and fertility,
• population ageing,
• migration,
• sustainability of social security and pension,
• policies to cope with demographic challenges and the challenges posed by inequality,
• effects of automation and AI in the ageing society,
• climate change effects on inequality and health, etc.

This workshop is designed to be an interdisciplinary event, encouraging submissions from economists, sociologists, demographers, and scholars from other disciplines.

Workshop website: TBA

OIST is deeply committed to the advancement of women in science, in Japan and worldwide. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.