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
LACEA’s Juan Luis Londoño Prize is designed to honor the memory and contribution of Juan Luis Londoño and to encourage high-quality and policy-relevant research on socioeconomic issues relevant to Latin America. The prize will be awarded to the best paper presented at LACEA’s Annual Conference on social policy by researchers younger than 40.
The conference will also include a LACEA Mentoring Workshop, which will provide feedback and advice to PhD candidates from Latin American universities from a senior scholar in their field. Limited funding will be available to help Latin American Ph.D. candidates from Latin American universities attend. A separate call for papers will be issued soon.
