The 31th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) will take place on June 14-17, 2017 at the Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. The local organiser is Professor Robert E. Wright. Professor Michèle Belot (University of Edinburgh) will serve as the program chair. The keynote speakers will be Professor Janet Currie (Princeton University) and Dr. Wilbert van der Klaauw (Federal Reserve Bank of New York). The presidential address will be given by Professor Marco Francesconi (University of Essex).

Papers must be submitted on-line at http://editorialexpress.com/conference/ESPE2017/

The paper submission site will open by November 1, 2016. The submission deadline is February 1, 2017. Acceptance decisions will be announced by April 1, 2017. Accepted papers will only be included in the final programme if presenting authors have registered by May 1, 2017. Each participant may present at most one paper but can co-author more than one paper in the program. Graduate students have a reduced registration fee, provided that his/her advisor confirms their student status.

More details will be soon available at the conference web page: www.especonferences.org

The 30th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) took place on June 15-18, 2016, organized by the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) at the Harnack House, in Berlin. Marco Francesconi (University of Essex) served as the program chair and Daniel D. Schnitzlein (DIW Berlin, Leibniz University Hannover) as coordinator of the local organizing team. The keynote speakers were Marianne P. Bitler (University of California-Irvine) and David Figlio (Northwestern University). The presidential address was given by Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University). As part of the 30th anniversary of the Society, there were a series of special sessions delivered by past presidents of ESPE.