The 28th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE 2014) aimed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and results in a variety of areas of specialization including, for example, family economics, labor economics, public economics, demography and health economics.

Over the three days, in addition to several parallel sessions to present the participants’ research work, the 260 participants from four continents watched keynote speeches by Christian Dustmann (University College London), Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim) and James Albrecht (Georgetown University), in addition to the presentation of 230 articles.

The definition of the scientific program was in charge of Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam) and the local organization was in charge of members of the Research Nucleus in Applied Microeconomics [NIMA] and of the Research Nucleus in Economic Policies [NIPE] of EEG, UMinho.