Many more than 10,000 economists will soon assemble at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (ASSA 2017) which will take place in Chicago, IL on January 6-8, 2017 (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday). The headquarters hotel will be the Hyatt Regency Chicago; the co-headquarters hotel will be the Sheraton Grand Chicago Hotel & Towers.
Interested conference participants are invited to join the Journal of Population Economics Reception at the 2017 ASSA Annual Meeting to celebrate
30 years of JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS
and the
2017 KUZNETS PRIZE.
The Reception will take place on Friday 6 January, 2017, from 5-6 pm at the Springer Booth, Exhibit Hall, #514.
30 years of JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS
Three decades of dedication in publishing outstanding theoretical and insightful applied research in all areas of population economics are to celebrate. The Journal of Population Economics, an independent and international quarterly journal that publishes original theoretical and applied research in all areas of population economics, has been hosted by the ‘POP Centre‘ at UNU-MERIT since April 2016.
Issue 1/2017, published on 29 October 2016, marks an important landmark for the journal, as it enters its 30th year of successful academic service. The article “Three decades of publishing research in population economics” highlights and reviews selected developments in the very successful 30 years of publishing high-quality research in population economics.
Read more: Celebrating 30 Years of the Journal of Population Economics
Read more: Some views on the Journal of Population Economics by Nobel Laureates and leading academics from economics, history, sociology, political science and demography.
2017 KUZNETS PRIZE
The 2017 Kuznets Prize goes to Binnur Balkan and Semih Tumen from the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey for their article “Immigration and prices: quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey,” Journal of Population Economics (2016), 29(3), pp. 657-686.
Read more: Kuznets Prize 2017
Klaus F. Zimmermann (Editor-in-Chief; UNU-MERIT and POP); Alessio J.G. Brown (Managing Editor; and UNU-MERIT and POP)Journal of Population Economics, UNU-MERIT; http://pop.merit.unu.edu/jpop/
Zimmermann in Washington DC at the White House
Zimmermann and Brown in front of UNU-MERIT .
ENDS;
