18TH RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics

The submission deadline is December 13th, 2024. We invite early-career researchers to submit full papers from all areas of Economics. There is no participation or registration fee.

Around 75 doctoral students from across Europe and beyond will present and discuss their work in a well-established, internationally visible format. The conference will take place in-person in Dortmund, Germany and feature the headline topic "Family Economics" with dedicated sessions and keynote speeches by Michèle Tertilt (University of Mannheim) and Aslı Sevindim (Head of the Integration department, Ministry for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia) and a joint conference dinner. The best paper to be submitted and presented will be awarded a prize of EUR 500.

For more information of the conference and submission, please visit www.rgs-econ.org/research/rgs-doctoral-conference .

The Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS Econ) is part of the Research Academy Ruhr and combines the expertise of the four UA Ruhr economics departments and the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, one of Germany’s leading economic research institutes. RGS Econ combines and leverages the expertise of more than 50 faculty members to provide structured PhD education to currently 52 doctoral students in Economics.