LiK Conference 2018

Call for Papers

To contribute to the discussion, we invite the submission of proposals for entire sessions or for individual research papers studying various aspects of socio-economic development in Kyrgyzstan or Central Asia. We welcome empirical papers using panel micro data, especially the “Life in Kyrgyzstan” Study data, which is accessible at http://idsc.iza.org/lik. We also encourage researchers to present other micro- and macroeconomic studies with the relevant topics of research. We encourage PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to apply to participate at the conference and use this opportunity to receive feedback from senior researchers.

Research topics of individual submissions or entire sessions may include but are not limited to:

• Poverty and inequality;
• Employment and labor markets;
• Migration and remittances;
• Entrepreneurship and informality;
• Gender, children and intra-household decision making;
• Education and health outcomes;
• Nutrition and food security;
• Rural livelihoods and agricultural market access;
• Home gardens and rural coping strategies;
• Value chains and export orientation;
• Economic policy;
• Public service delivery and decentralization;
• Impacts of trade and integration reforms;
• Social capital and social cohesion;
• Peace-building, trust and expectations;
• Micro-level data quality, survey methodology and panel data collection;
• Methods of rigorous impact evaluation;
• Sustainable development goals;
• Climate change and its impact.

The organizers are seeking both individual papers and proposals for sessions of three or four papers, with preference given to complete session proposals.

Those interested in submitting sessions or papers to the conference are welcome to submit their applications by 30 June 2018 at likconference2018@gmail.com. Please list a session title, a session chair, a session organizer, and the titles and all co-authors for each paper and enclose a 200-word session summary. Individual papers may also be submitted either in a 200-word extended abstract form or in full papers. All submissions should be in English. The conference language will be English, with simultaneous translation provided in Russian. Shortlisted applicants will be notified before 31 July 2018.

Academic committee: Professor Tilman Brück (IGZ/ISDC), Dr. Damir Esenaliev (SIPRI), Dr. Roman Mogilevskii (UCA), and Dr. Kanat Tilekeyev (UCA).

There is no conference fee. Please note that travel and accommodation funds cannot be provided. Registration for participation in the conference will close on 15 September 2018.

For further inquiries please contact at likconference2018@gmail.com.