Please see below for the call for papers: Call For Papers We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 3rd Annual Southern PhD Economics Conference (ASPEC) which will be held on 29th and 30th of June 2023. This PhD conference is supported by the economics departments and schools of nine universities [University of Bath,<https://www.bath.ac.uk/departments/department-of-economics/> Oxford Brookes University,<http://business.brookes.ac.uk/about/departments/accounting-finance-economics/> City University of London,<https://www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/arts-social-sciences/economics>University of East Anglia,<https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/school-of-economics> Royal Holloway (University of London),<https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/economics/> Middlesex University,<https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/what-we-do/faculty-of-professional-and-social-sciences/business-school/economics> University of Reading,<http://www.reading.ac.uk/economics/> University of Southampton<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/economics/index.page> and University of Sussex<https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/people-and-departments/economics/>] broadly based in the south of the United Kingdom. The conference committee is inviting papers from PhD students and postdocs (who have completed their PhD in the past two years) in any field of economics. This will be a two-day conference and will be held in-person at the University of Sussex. Please send full papers to: aspec2023(a)gmail.com. The deadline for submission is the 5th of April 2023. Papers will be reviewed by a committee of current PhD students to achieve a varied and high quality programme. Decisions will be communicated by the 28th of April 2023. Registration will close on the 22nd of May. for more on ASPEC and to see previous conference programmes: https://sites.google.com/view/aspec-2023/home [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Qfl_1B7kwKCvUq3Hpv__Etq993LGT_8KhM4nZBPbX… ASPEC 2023<https://sites.google.com/view/aspec-2023/home> 3rd Annual Southern PhD Economics Conference Date: 29th and 30th of June 2023, 10am-5pm Venue: University of Sussex, Student Centre (Woodland 2,3 and 5) sites.google.com -- Dr. Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos Lecturer in Economics University of Stirling School of Management PhD Convenor, Economics Division, University of Stirling School of Management Co-Director UG Programme in Economics, University of Stirling School of Management Global Labor Organization Research Fellow PhD Co-Director, Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics Economics Pathway Convener, Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences, ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership Neach-gairm an t-slighe Eaconamaidh, Sgoil Cheumnaichean Saidhean Sòisealta na h-Alba: ESRC Com-pàirteachas Trèanaidh Dotaireachd https://rufrancos.org Latest Research: "Does the depth of informality affect welfare in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa?" with Eva-Maria Egger and Cecilia Poggi. Oxford Economic Papers, 2023 [link<https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpac052>] "Escaping from hunger before WW1: Nutrition & living standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century" with Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew Newell and Kevin Reynolds. Cliometrica, 2023 [link<https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-022-00259-4>] "How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?" with Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell and Kevin Reynolds. The Economic History Review, 75(1), 2022. [link<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.13079>] ________________________________ Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159