First Quarter | 2025

Dear LACEA Members,
I’m pleased to share with you LACEA’s news for the first quarter of 2025:

• The call for papers of our annual meeting is out.
• Lacea will be launching its new website!
• LACEA’s HUMANS network on migration held its annual meeting.
• LACEA’s networks will hold annual workshops in May.
• ECONOMÍA published several new open access papers.
• We thank Angela Fonseca and Elena Zadic for their hard work and important contributions from LACEA’s Secretariat, and welcome to Maira Colacce and Joaquín Cabrera.

LACEA 2025 Call for Papers

The call for papers is out for the 2025 LACEA Annual Meeting! THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 30, 2025.

The meeting will be held at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)  in Recife, Brazil, from November20 to 22, 2025. Claudio Ferraz (UBC and PUC-Rio) chairs the program, Breno Sampaio and Rafael Costa Lima (UFPE) are the local organizers. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago), RobinBurgess (LSE), Rohini Pande (Yale), Diego Puga (CEMFI), and Catherine Wolfram (MIT) .

LACEA is renewing its website!

The page will be launched in May. Changes have been made to improve the website’s looks and make it easier for you to find the information you need. You will now be able to edit your member profile in the members’ area so we can get to know each other better. Look out for the new website in the following days!

Humans network meeting

HUMANS annual workshop was held at ITAM in Mexico City on April 10-11, 2025.
Here is the program.

Upcoming Networks Activities

Various LACEA networks will be holding their 2025 workshops in May, within the framework of the 2025 RIDGE MAY Forum:

12 – 13 May – Lima, Perú

WELAC’s workshop on Gender and Household Economics > Program

Economic History Newtork’s Workshop on Historical Development >Program

13-14 May – Lima, Perú

Network on Inequality & Poverty (NIP) Workshop > Program

14-15 May – Lima, Perú

Impact Evaluation Network > Program

Health Economics Network > Program

Labor Network > Program

15-16 May – Lima, Perú

Political Economy Network PEG >Program

Brain Network > Program

16 May – Lima Perú

ALCAPONE America Latina Crime and Policy Network > Program

26-27 May – Montevideo, Uruguay

Trade, Integration, and Growth Network (TIGN)  > Program

Check out the RIDGE forum page for information on other activities to be held jointly with LACEA’s networks’!

Journal Economía. Latest publications.

Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics
Spatial Equilibrium and the Regional Effects of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Mexico
Juan Duran Vanegas

Health, Education, and Welfare
Girls Dominate, Boys Left Behind: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Education Outcomes in Jamaica
Nicholas A. Wright

Economic History
A Curse of Cattle? Ranching and Land Concentration in Buenos Aires During the First Globalization
Federico Droller, Lucas Llach, Pablo Schiaffino

Divorce and Housing Cost Shocks in Mexico
Andres Jauregui, Antonio Avalos, Annabella España-Nájera

What Works for Active Labor Market Policies? A Meta-Analysis of RCT Findings
Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Martín Montané, Luca Sartorio, Alfonso Gauna

Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth
Local Economic Impacts of Hydroelectric Power Plants: Evidence from Brazil
Francisco Costa, Dimitri Szerman, Juliano Assunção

Changes in LACEA’s Secretariat office

After several years serving as LACEA’s General Secretary and Assistant Manager, Angela Fonseca and Elena Zadic are stepping down as General Secretary and Assistant Manager. This “dupla’s” service to LACEA has been great. Together, they’ve kept business going, been in charge of financial statements and accounts, managed communications, organized elections, and much more. Elena has also been in charge of Economia’s editorial office. Angela selected and worked with the firm that put together the new webpage, which is about to come live. In short, they’ve kept the organization functional and vibrant. This community owes them both a great deal.
We welcome Maira Colacce and Joaquín Cabrera, respectively LACEA’s new General Secretary and Assistant Manager. Both Maira and Joaquín are affiliated with Universidad de La República in Uruguay, and played key roles in the very successful organization of last year’s annual conference in Montevideo.

Greetings,
Marcela Eslava
LACEA President