Eleventh Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

July 9-11, 2025

The ECINEQ Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the Eleventh Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) will be held in Washington DC from July 9 to July 11, 2025. The conference will be co-hosted by the World Bank Group and George Washington University and will be held at the World Bank headquarters in central Washington.

The ECINEQ conference provides an international forum for all researchers interested in the analysis of economic inequality and related fields, bringing together a diversity of perspectives. ECINEQ welcomes submissions of papers with theoretical or empirical analyses of topics related to inequality, poverty, mobility, and redistribution, as well as related policy analyses.

Keynote speakers

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Garance Genicot and Debraj Ray, Georgetown University and New York University
Nora Lustig, Presidential Address, Tulane University

Only reasonably complete papers should be submitted using the form at the following link: https://editorialexpress.com/conference/EcineqWB2025/. The deadline for submission of papers is February 15, 2025. Submitters will be notified by March 2025 whether their paper is accepted.

 

FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE 2025 ECINEQ CONFERENCE

This year the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality will provide limited financial aid for students and faculty from institutions based in low income countries to attend the 2025 ECINEQ Conference.

1. Eligibility: Financial support will be provided to PhD students and faculty/researchers from institutions located in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, as classified by the World Bank. https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025

2. Financial Aid Application: After acceptance of the paper, authors can apply for financial aid by sending a request to info@ecineq.org by April 7th, 2025. The application must include a budget for the amount requested, which can be the full cost of attending or a partial subsidy.

3. Selection Criteria: Recipients of financial aid will be selected based on their institution’s location, with priority given to submissions from institutions in low-income countries, as classified by the World Bank.

 

Submission deadline: February 15 (12:00AM (00:00) Eastern Standard Time), 2025.
Registration deadline: May 10, 2025.

The call for papers can be downloaded here.

Local Organizing Committee
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva (Global Director of Poverty and Equity Global Practice)
Deon Filmer (Director of Research Group)
Haishan Fu (Chief Statistician and Director of the Development Data Group)
James Foster (George Washington University)

Scientific Program Committee
Sabine Alkire (University of Oxford, UK)
Facundo Alvaredo (Paris School of Economics, FR)
Elena Bárcena-Martín (University of Malaga, ES)
Alessandra Casarico (Bocconi University, IT)
Conchita D’Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg, LU)
Koen Decancq (University of Antwerp, BE)
Raquel Fernández (New York University, US)
Deon Filmer (World Bank, US)
James Foster (George Washington University, US)
Haishan Fu (World Bank, US)
Cecilia García-Peñalosa (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, FR)
Janet C. Gornick (City University of New York, US)
Carol Graham (University of Maryland, US)
Nicolas Gravel (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, FR)
Dean Jolliffe (World Bank, US)
Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University, US)
Eeshani Kandpal (Center for Global Development)
Peter Lanjouw (VU University, NL)
Murray Leibbrandt (University of Cape Town, ZA)
Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva (World Bank, US)
Nora Lustig (Tulane University, US)
Stephen P. Jenkins (London School of Economics, UK)
Daniel Mahler (World Bank, US)
Guido Neidhofer (Turkish-German Univeristy, TR)
Flaviana Palmisano (Sapienza University of Roma, IT)
Susan Parker (University of Maryland, US)
Andreas Peichl (University of Munich, DE)
Vito Peragine (University of Bari, IT)
Xavier Ramos (Autonomous University of Barcelona, ES)
Andrea Repetto (Universidad Católica de Chile, CL)
Carsten Schroeder (DIW Berlin, DE)
Alain Trannoy (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, FR)
Sandy Tubeuf (Université catholique de Louvain, BE)
Philippe Van Kerm (University of Luxembourg & LISER, LU)
Andrea Vigorito (Universidad de la República, UY)
Ingrid Wollard (University of Cape Town, ZA)
Buhong Zheng (University of Colorado Denver, US)

 

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