The Journal of Population Economics invites you to join a special webinar on 19 November, 2020. The webinar runs from 14:00-17:00 (CET) and highlights recent contributions to the Journal, including the lead article of issue 34(1) “Names and behaviours in a war“, the Kuznet

The Journal of Population Economics has recently grown in the rankings, with it’s impact factor rising from 1.26 in 2018 to 1.84 in 2019! The five-year impact factor also rose to 2.353, signaling an increase in the visibility and readership of the Journal. More information on th

The final issue of the Journal of Population Economics has been published and is available online here! Issue 33(4) features a range of articles on topics related to the spread of COVID-19, fertility, education, and migration. The open-access, lead article “Impacts of social and

2020 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Gautam Hazarika, Chandan Kumar Jha & Sudipta Sarangi         Gautam Hazarika (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), Chandan Kumar Jha (Le Moyne College, Madden School of Business), and Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech) will receive

Every year, the Journal of Population Economics reports on its yearly performance metrics in the Editor-in-Chief report. In this report, editor-in-chief Klaus Zimmermann reflects on publication trends in the past year. The 2019 report, which provides insight into the 2018 calendar yea

The Journal of Population Economics is extremely happy to announce the appointment of Dr. Madeline Zavodny as a managing editor of the Journal.   Dr. Zavodny is a Professor of Economics at the University of North Florida. Her research concentrates on economic issues related to im

The past year has been a busy one for the Journal of Population Economics. With well over 500 submissions received in 2017, the Journal has continued to attract many high-quality, innovative articles from researchers all over the world. The newly-released Journal Citation Report indic

On September 18, 2017, GLO Fellow John P. Haisken-DeNew of Melbourne University has visited POP at UNU-MERIT  and presented a paper in the UNU-MERIT/School of Governance Seminar at noon on: Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Pric

The international conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) took place in Brussels on 13-14 July 2017,under the theme ‘Public Policy & Governance Beyond Borders’. The event is co-hosted by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University, NL) and the Ma

Please join Springer Editorial and the Editor-in-Chief Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT and Princeton University) for a reception at the 2017 ASSA Annual Meeting to celebrate 30 years of JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS and the 2017 KUZNETS PRIZE. –> Friday 6 January, 2017, from