LACEA Newsletter: May 2025
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1. LACEA 2025 Call for Papers
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) will be held in Recife, Brazil, from November 20 to 22, 2025. The Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) will host the meeting.
Claudio Ferraz (UBC and PUC-Rio) chairs the Program Committee. Breno Sampaio (UFPE) and Rafael Costa Lima (UFPE) are the local organizers.
Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago), Robin Burgess (LSE), Rohini Pande (Yale), Diego Puga (CEMFI), and Catherine Wolfram (MIT) are confirmed keynote speakers.
Authors are invited to submit theoretical and empirical papers in all areas of economics. Only full papers will be considered. All papers and abstracts must be written in English and submitted electronically as a single PDF file.
THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 30, 2025
Please note that authors may submit a maximum of one paper. However, an individual can be a co-author of several papers presented. Any author submitting a paper must be a member of LACEA at the time of submission.
Membership information can be found at: lacea.org. For any inquiry, please email:lacea2025@gmail.com
2. ASSA 2026 Annual Meeting
As you may know, LACEA is allocated a session in the AEA-ASSA meetings and as usual, we would like to call for proposals for a session from our members. The 2026 Annual Meeting will be held on January 3–5, 2026 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, LACEA cannot provide financing to attend the meetings.
If you would like to form a session, please email us at lacea@lacea.org with a fully formed session proposal (for Paper Sessions, include the Title, abstract, and authors of papers, and attached paper if available), using “AEA-ASSA 2025 proposal” as your subject line. The session can take one of these two forms::
- Paper session. Paper sessions usually contain 3-4 papers, with no more than 6 papers, and almost always have discussants. Authors are listed with each paper.
- Panel session. Panel sessions do not have paper titles, authors, and discussants. This format is for presentations by speakers. These should include the speaker and topic title, but these sessions do not include papers with authors presenting.
The proposals will be received until May 30, 2025.
Please note that at least the submitter should be an active LACEA member.
3. WAPLAC workshop #2,Quito, Ecuador, 18-19 December 2025
We are delighted to invite you to the second workshop of the network on Welfare and in Latin America and the Caribbean (WAPLAC) which will take place at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito on 18-19 December 2025.
The workshop aims to take stock of recent research on fiscal and welfare policies, inequality, wellbeing, labor market dynamics, mobility, support for democracy, and other social outcomes in LAC.
The Keynote speaker for this workshop is Adriana Camacho (CAF- Banco de Desarollo de América Latina y el Caribe)
Deadline for application: 30 July!
There are no registration fees for the workshop.
Call for papers: “Machine learning para políticas económicas en economías en desarrollo y mercados emergentes”
We invite submissions for the Special Issue of Cuadernos de Investigación Económica Boliviana (CIEB) onMachine Learning for Economic Policy in Developing Economies and Emerging Markets, organized by the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance of Bolivia (MEFP) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Topics of Interest
We welcome papers on:
- Macroeconomic forecasting and nowcasting.
- Microeconomic analysis using Machine Learning.
- Text analysis & Natural language processing for economic sentiment.
- Policy evaluation & causal inference.
- Machine Learning applications in social policy & inequality.
- Interpretability and inference in models
Awards & Publication
Accepted papers will be published in CIEB, with prizes for the top submissions:
- 1st Prize: Bs 14,000 or USD 2,000 for non-residents.
- 2nd Prize: Bs 10,500 or USD 1,500 for non-residents.
- 3rd Prize: Bs 7,000 or USD 1,000 for non-residents.
- Other selected papers: Bs 1,400 or USD 200 for non-residents.
(Authors affiliated with MEFP or IDB are ineligible for monetary prizes but will receive recognition.)
Key Dates
- Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
- Notification: August 31, 2025
- Publication: September 17, 2025
- Submissions in English or Spanish following journal guidelines. More details: https://www.economiayfinanzas.gob.bo/cieb/mlcieb
- Submit to: cieb.mefp@economiayfinanzas.gob.bo
We look forward to your contributions!
Latin American and the Caribbean Inequality Review
The LACIR Supplement was officially published in Oxford Open Economics on March 3.
In 2020, we set out to take a closer look at Latin America’s persistent inequality by launching the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR). A panel of 15 experts commissioned 27 academic papers from 74 authors across the region and beyond. After several years of collaboration this effort has culminated in an open-access supplement published by Oxford Open Economics. The supplement explores why inequality has proven so persistent in the region, and it covers topics such as income and wealth distribution, inequality of opportunity, the role of markets, taxation and redistribution, and political power.
Latin American and the Caribbean Inequality Review
The LACIR Supplement was officially published in Oxford Open Economics on March 3.
In 2020, we set out to take a closer look at Latin America’s persistent inequality by launching the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR). A panel of 15 experts commissioned 27 academic papers from 74 authors across the region and beyond. After several years of collaboration this effort has culminated in an open-access supplement published by Oxford Open Economics. The supplement explores why inequality has proven so persistent in the region, and it covers topics such as income and wealth distribution, inequality of opportunity, the role of markets, taxation and redistribution, and political power.
Fostering the Growth of Women-Led Businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean
GDLab, the IDB Group’s Gender and Diversity Knowledge Initiative, headed by the Research Department and the Social Sector promotes, leads, and funds high-impact research through competitive calls for papers. The initiative focuses on women, Indigenous peoples, persons of African descent, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ persons in Latin America and the Caribbean. Submissions are now being accepted for the following call for papers: Fostering the Growth of Women-Led Businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean. Co-funded by GDLab and the Women Entrepreneurs and Finance Initiative (We-Fi), this call aims to support academic studies that generate rigorous and actionable evidence to inform the design of programs that unlock the untapped potential of women-led businesses, fostering sustainable economic growth across the region. This call is open to independent researchers, research teams from governments, universities, private sector entities, or IDB Group specialists associated with external teams. Depending on the scope of the proposal, GDLab funding totals up to US$100,000 or its equivalent in local currency for each selected proposal. This call closes on May 12, 2025.
