Population, climate change, and social welfare economics

UT Austin
Austin, TX - United States
6th February 2020 - 7th February 2020

Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers within the scope of Social Choice and Welfare that focus on population and climate change. We are especially interested in papers that:

Advance formal population ethics, with applications to or illustrations for climate policy; or
Advance economic modeling of climate policy (such as Integrated Assessment Models) to improve the treatment of population, especially in models’ social objectives.

Conference at UT-Austin. A conference will be held at the University of Texas at Austin on the afternoon of February 6th and all day February 7th, 2020. Authors who submit an abstract, proposal, or paper by the Early Interest Deadline may be invited (with travel funded by UT-Austin) to present at the conference. Participation at the conference is not required for publication in the special issue.

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