Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World

Welfare Economics

Associations and Societies

• Association for Social Economics - ASE
• Association for the Study of the Grants Economy - ASGE
• Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione e del Non Profit - AICCON (Italian Association for the Culture of Cooperation and Non-Profit)
• Human Development and Capability Association - HDCA
• International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies - ISQOLS
• International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade (The International Georgist Union)
• Japan Society of Household Economics - JSHE
• Mother's Service Society
• Political and Ethical Knowledge on Economic Acivities Research Programme - PEKEA
• Society for Social Choice and Welfare - SCW
• Society for the Study of Social Policy - SSSP
• Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Sozialpolitik (Association for Social Policy, Committee for Social Policy)
• Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Sozialwissenschaft (Association for Social Policy, Committee for Social Economics)
• Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing - WIEGO

Argentina

• Universidad Nacional de La Plata (National University of La Plata), La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (School of Economic Sciences), Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) (Center for the Study of Distribution, Labor and Social Affairs)

Australia

• ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (Life Course Centre), Indooroopilly
• Australian National University, Canberra, College of Business and Economics, Research School of Economics, Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR)
• Balkanu Development Corporation, Cairns
• University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Faculty of Business and Economics, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR)
• UNSW Sydney, Sydney, UNSW Business School, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR)

Austria

• European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Wien
• Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz (University of Linz), Linz, Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State
• Österreichisches Institut für Familienforschung (ÖIF) (Austrian Institute for Family Studies), Wien
• WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business), Wien, Department Sozioökonomie (Department of Socio-Economics)
• WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business), Wien, Department Sozioökonomie (Department of Socio-Economics), Institut für Wirtschaftsgeographie und Geoinformatik (Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience)
• WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business), Wien, Forschungsinstitut Economics of Inequality (Research Institute Economics of Inequality)

Bangladesh

• University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Institute of Social Welfare and Research

Belgium

• EMES European Research Network, Liège
• Université Catholique de Louvain (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve), Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires pour la Solidarité et l'Innovation Sociale (CERISIS) (Interdisciplinary Research Center for Solidarity and Social Innovation)
• Université de Liège (University of Liege), Liège, HEC École de Gestion (School of Management), Centre d'Économie Sociale (Social Economy Centre)
• Universiteit Antwerpen (University of Antwerp), Antwerpen, Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck (Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy)

Brazil

• Nações Unidas (United Nations), Brasília, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (United Nations Development Programme), International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)

Canada

• Caledon Institute of Social Policy, Ottawa
• Canada West Foundation, Calgary
• Canadian Council on Social Development, Ottawa
• Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS), Ottawa
• McMaster University, Hamilton, Independence and Economic Security of the Older Population (IESOP)
• Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), Ottawa

Colombia

• Universidad Icesi (Icesi University), Cali, Centro de Estudios en Protección Social y Economía de la Salud (PROESA) (Research Center for Social Protection and Health Economics)

Denmark

• Aarhus Universitet (Aarhus University), Aarhus, Institut for Økonomi (Department of Economics and Business Economics), Centre for Research in Social Integration and Marginalization (CIM)
• Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen), København, Økonomisk Institut (Department of Economics), Centre for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)
• Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd (VIVE) (Danish National Centre for Applied Social Science), København

Egypt

• American University, Cairo, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Middle East and North Africa (J-PAL MENA)
• Social Fund for Development, Cairo

France

• Centre de Recherche pour l'Étude et l'Observation des Conditions de Vie (CRÉDOC) (Research Center for the Study and Observation of Living Conditions), Paris
• Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses Applications (CEPREMAP) (Center for Economic Research and its Applications), Paris
• Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)), Paris, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS)
• Sciences Po, Paris, Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales (CRIS) (Research Center on Social Inequalities)
• Université de Perpignan (University of Perpignan), Perpignan, Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Économiques (Faculty of Law and Economics), Groupe de Recherche ÉCOnomique et Sociale (GRECOS) (Economic and Social Research Group)
• Université de Lille (University of Lille), Lille, Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et des territoires (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences), Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Économiques et Sociologiques (CLERSE) (Lille Center for the Study and Research of Economics and Sociology)
• Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (University of Paris 1), Paris, Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne (Sorbonne Economic Centre), Modélisations Appliquées, Trajectoires Institutionnelles, Stratégies Socio-Économiques (MATISSE) (Applied Modeling, Institutional Trajectories, Socio-Economic Strategies)
• Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) (University of Paris 9), Paris, Laboratoire d'Économie de Dauphine (LEDa) (Dauphine Economics Laboratory), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Socioéconomie (IRIS) (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Socio-Economics)
• World Inequality Lab, Paris

Germany

• briq Institute on Behavior and Inequality, Bonn
• Deutsches Institut für Altersvorsorge (DIA) (German Institute for Retirement Provision), Münster
• DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) (German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)), Berlin, Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung "Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP)" (Research Infrastructure "Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)")
• Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (University of Jena), Jena, Jena Graduate School GSBC
• Hans Böckler Stiftung (Hans Böckler Foundation), Düsseldorf, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (Economic and Social Institute)
• Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) (Institute for Employment Research), Nürnberg
• Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) (Institute for Employment Research), Nürnberg, Forschungsdatenzentrum der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency)
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich), München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät (Department of Economics), Seminar für Theorie und Politik der Einkommensverteilung (Chair for Income Redistribution Theory and Policy)
• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society), München, Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy), Münchener Zentrum für Ökonomie und Demographischen Wandel (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA))
• Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg (University of Bamberg), Bamberg, Volkswirtschaftslehre (Department of Economics), Graduiertenkolleg "Märkte und Sozialräume in Europa" (Markets and Social Systems in Europe)
• Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin), Berlin
• Ruhr-Universität Bochum (University of Bochum), Bochum, Sektion Sozialpolitik und Sozialökonomie (Section Social Policy and Social Economy)
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (University of Heidelberg), Heidelberg, Centrum für Soziale Investitionen und Innovationen (CSI) (Centre for Social Investment)
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (University of Heidelberg), Heidelberg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (Faculty of Economics and Social Studies), Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Alfred Weber Institute for Economics and Department of Economics)
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (University of Heidelberg), Heidelberg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (Faculty of Economics and Social Studies), Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Alfred Weber Institute for Economics and Department of Economics), Forschungszentrum für Umweltökonomik (Research Centre for Environmental Economics)
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (University of Heidelberg), Heidelberg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (Faculty of Economics and Social Studies), Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Alfred Weber Institute for Economics and Department of Economics), Institut für internationale vergleichende Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik (Institute for International Comparisons of Economic and Social Statistics)
• Universität Bremen (University of Bremen), Bremen, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Economics and Management Area), Institut für Sozialökonomische Handlungsforschung (Social Economic Action Research Institute (SEARI))
• Universität Bremen (University of Bremen), Bremen, Socium Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik (Socium Centre for Inequality and Social Policy Research)
• Universität Hohenheim (University of Hohenheim), Hohenheim, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences), Institut für Haushalts- und Konsumökonomik (Institute for Household and Consumer Economics)
• Universität Mannheim (University of Mannheim), Mannheim, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research)
• Universität Siegen (University of Siegen), Siegen, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsrecht (Department of Economics), Professur für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Schwerpunkt Wachstumstheorie, Verteilungstheorie, Industrieökonomik (Chair of Economics (Growth, Theory of Distribution, Industrial Economics))
• Walter Eucken Institut (Walter Eucken Insitute), Freiburg
• Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Social Science Research Center), Berlin, Abteilung "Ungleichheit und soziale Integration" (Inequality and Social Integration)

Hungary

• International Demographic Inequlity Lab (IDIL), Budapest

India

• Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS), New Delhi
• Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi

Indonesia

• SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta

Iran

• Social Security Research Institute (SSRI), Tehran

Ireland

• European Community, Dublin, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
• Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

Italy

• Centro per la Ricerca e il Progresso Sociale (CeRSP) (Center for Research and Social Progress), Ponte dell'Olio
• Fondazione Rodolfo DEBENEDETTI (fRDB) (Rodolfo DeBenedetti Foundation), Milano
• Inter-Agency Research Cooperation Project: Understanding Children's Work and Its Impact (UCW), Roma
• Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale (Institute for Social Research), Milano
• UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti, Firenze
• Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Bocconi University), Milano, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA)
• Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Bocconi University), Milano, Laboratory for Effective Antipoverty Policies (LEAP)
• Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan), Milano, Dipartimento di Studi del Lavoro e del Welfare (Department of Labor Studies)
• Università degli Studi di Torino (University of Turin), Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto (Carlo Alberto College), Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD)
• Università degli Studi di Torino (University of Turin), Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto (Carlo Alberto College), Centre for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (CeRP)

Japan

• Economic Policy Institute for Quality Life (EPI), Tokyo
• Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Institute of Economic Research, Center for Intergenerational Studies
• Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Center for Well-Being and Society

Luxembourg

• Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Esch
• Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER, CEPS/INSTEAD), Esch-sur-Alzette

Malaysia

• Universiti Malaya (University of Malaya), Kuala Lumpur, Faculty of Business and Economics, Pusat Penyelidikan Keselamatan Sosial (Social Security Research Centre)

Mexico

• Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social (CISS) (Inter-American Conferenca on Social Security), México

Netherlands

• Government of the Netherlands, Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP) (Netherlands Institute for Social Research)
• Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (NetSPAR), Tilburg
• Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam), Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS)
• Verwey-Jonker Instituut (Verwey-Jonker Institute), Utrecht
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU University Amsterdam), Amsterdam, Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM)

Nigeria

• Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED), Benin City

Norway

• OsloMet- storbyuniversitetet (Oslo Metropolitan University), Oslo, Senter for Velferds- og Arbeidslivsforskning (SVA) (Centre for Welfare and Labour Research)
• OsloMet- storbyuniversitetet (Oslo Metropolitan University), Oslo, Senter for Velferds- og Arbeidslivsforskning (SVA) (Centre for Welfare and Labour Research), Norsk Institutt for Forskning om Oppvekst, Velferd og Aldring (NOVA) (Norwegian Institute for Social Research)
• Universitetet i Bergen (University of Bergen), Bergen, Institutt for Økonomi (Department of Economics), Gruppe for trygdeøkonomi (Centre for Economic Studies in Social Insurance)

Pakistan

• Centre for Poverty Reduction and Social Policy Development (CPRSPD), Islamabad
• Mahbub-ul-Haq Human Development Center (MHHDC), Islamabad
• Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), Karachi

Peru

• Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) (Group for the Analysis of Development), Lima
• Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) (Institute for Peruvian Studies), Lima

Poland

• Instytut Pracy i Spraw Socjalnych (IPISS) (Institute of Labour and Social Affairs), Warszawa
• Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw), Warszawa, Wydział Dziennikarstwa i Nauk Politycznych (Faculty of Journalism and Political Science), Instytut Polityki Społecznej (Institute of Social Policy)

Romania

• Academia Romana (Romanian Academy), Bucureşti, Institutul National de Cercetari Economice (INCE) (National Institute of Economic Research), Institutul de Cercetare a Calitatii Vietii (Research Institute for Quality of Life)
• Laboratul de Solidaritate (Solidarity Lab), Bucuresşti

Russia

• National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Institute for Social Policy
• Omsk State University, Omsk, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics and Labor Sociology

South Africa

• University of Cape Town, Cape Town, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR)
• University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)

South Korea

• Seoul National University, Seoul, Division of Economics, Center for Distributive Justice
• Seoul National University, Seoul, Institute for Social Development and Policy Research

Spain

• EQUALITAS (Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis), Barcelona, Madrid, Vigo
• Observatorio Iberoamericano del Empleo y la Economía Social y Cooperativa (OIBESCOOP) (Ibero-American Observatory of Employment and Social and Cooperative Economies), Zaragoza
• Universidad de Alicante (University of Alicante), Alicante, Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo Social y Paz (IUDESP) (Institut for the Social Development and Peace)
• Universidad de La Laguna (University of La Laguna), La Laguna, Facultad de Economía, Empresa y Turismo (Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism), Centro de Estudios de Desigualdad Social y Gobernanza (CEDESOG) (Research Centre on Social Inequality and Governance)
• Universitat de Barcelona (University of Barcelona), Barcelona, School of Economics, Centre de Recerca en Economia del Benestar (CREB) (Research Center in Welfare Economics)

Sweden

• Ratioinstitutet (Ratio Institute), Stockholm

Switzerland

• United Nations, Genève, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
• Universität Basel (University of Basel), Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum (Faculty of Business and Economics), Center for Research in Economics and Well-Being (CREW)

Tanzania

• Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), Dar es Salaam

United Kingdom

• Birkbeck College, London, Pensions Institute
• Chronic Poverty Research Centre, Manchester
• International Longevity Centre-UK (ILCUK), London
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York
• London School of Economics (LSE), London, Department of Social Policy
• London School of Economics (LSE), London, International Inequalities Institute
• Oxford University, Oxford, Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
• Oxford University, Oxford, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
• Oxford University, Oxford, Global Priorities Institute
• Oxford University, Oxford, Wellbeing Research Centre
• Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), Canterbury
• University of Bristol, Bristol, School of Economics, Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO)
• University of Essex, Colchester, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• University of Essex, Colchester, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC)
• University of Essex, Colchester, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), EUROMOD
• University of Essex, Colchester, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS)
• University of Essex, Colchester, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS)
• University of Essex, Colchester, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), UK Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC)
• University of Sussex, Brighton, Poverty Research Unit

United States: California

• Stanford University, Stanford, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
• University of California-Davis, Davis, Center for Poverty Research

United States: District of Columbia

• Brookings Institution, Washington, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
• FHI 360, Washington
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington
• National Academy of Sciences, Washington, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE)
• National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), Washington
• National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), Washington
• World Bank Group, Washington, Human Development Network Social Protection & Labor (HDNSP) Unit
• World Bank Group, Washington, Poverty and Equity Global Practice

United States: Florida

• Florida State University, Tallahassee, Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy

United States: Illinois

• Northwestern University, Evanston, Northwestern University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Booth School of Business, Center for Population Economics
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Center on Demography and Economics of Aging (CoA)
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Department of Economics, Center for the Economics of Human Development
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Population Research Center

United States: Louisiana

• Tulane University, New Orleans, Department of Economics, Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQI)

United States: Massachusetts

• Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Center for Retirement Research (CRR)
• Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Sloan Center on Aging and Work
• E. F. Schumacher Society, Great Barrington
• Harvard University, Cambridge, Harvard Kennedy School, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

United States: Michigan

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, National Poverty Center (NPC)
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Institute for Social Research (ISR)

United States: New Jersey

• Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton
• Princeton University, Princeton, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

United States: New York

• City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, Graduate Center, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
• Columbia University, New York City, School of Social Work, Center of Poverty and Social Policy
• Cornell University, Ithaca, Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs
• MDRC, Ney York City
• United Nations, New York City, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Division of Data, Analysis, Planning and Monitoring
• United Nations, New York City, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Division of Social and Economic Policy

United States: North Carolina

• Duke University, Durham, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, Eudaimonia Institute

United States: Oregon

• Oregon State University, Corvallis, Rural Poverty Research Center (RPRC)

United States: Pennsylvania

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Wharton School of Business, Pension Research Council

United States: Texas

• University of Texas-Austin, Austin, University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)

United States: Utah

• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Department of Family and Consumer Studies

United States: Wisconsin

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty

Uruguay

• Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana (CLAEH) (Latin American Center for a Human Economy), Montevideo