The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute is pleased to announce a call for papers for its annual Research Conference. Submissions will be accepted through Friday, April 11, 2025.
This event will showcase the range of frontier-style research that the Institute engages with and supports. Presenters, discussants, and attendees will engage in a broad scholarly exchange of ideas around presented papers. We invite submissions on questions related to the Institute mission of supporting the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate through research into sources of economic opportunity and inclusive growth. We welcome submissions that inform this mission from both economists and other social scientists, and from a range of methodological approaches.
The keynote speaker will be David Card, the Class of 1950 Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the 2021 winner of the Nobel prize in economics. Card pioneered the use of natural experiments to identify and measure causal effects. Much of his research has focused on the labor market effects of education, immigration, and minimum wages. Card has described his research as seeking to “understand why some people succeed and others fail, and how their success or failure is related to the environment, institutions and the people themselves.” Card was also the 1995 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, the top honor for economists under 40. He served as president of the American Economic Association in 2021.
The second day of the conference is an Early Career Researchers’ Workshop that will focus on developing research by new scholars. Submissions for this day are open to any scholar who has completed a Ph.D. in the last eight years (from 2017 to 2024). We request work that is at an early draft stage where results are preliminary and incomplete. Scope for value added from participating in the conference to improve the project will be considered in selection. Please do not submit well-developed job market papers.
The program and photos from last year’s conference can be found here. The conference organizer is Amanda Michaud, and this year’s program committee members are Taha Choukhmane, Stephie Fried, Dan Hartley, Amanda Michaud, Serdar Ozkan, Kosali Simon, and Abigail Wozniak.
Submission criteria
Submissions to the main conference day are open to current or former Institute visiting scholars, colleagues from the Federal Reserve System, and Institute Advisory Board members. Submissions to the Early Career Researchers’ Workshop may come from researchers of any affiliation who completed their Ph.D. in 2017–2024.
The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. CT on Friday, April 11, 2025.
Event details
The 2025 conference will be held in person at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on November 13 (main conference) and November 14 (Early Career Researchers’ Workshop). Reimbursement for presenters’ travel expenses will be available. Coverage of the main conference will be streamed online.
Institute Research Conference: November 13
- Approximately 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. CT. Presentations will be scheduled in this time frame.
- Submit full papers by 11:59 p.m. CT on April 11. Partial drafts will be accepted, but preference will be given to full manuscripts.
- Each paper will be followed by a discussant and audience questions.
- This portion of the event will be publicized, recorded, and livestreamed.
Early Career Researchers’ Workshop: November 14
- Approximately 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. CT. Presentations and discussion will be scheduled in this time frame.
- Open to scholars up to eight years post-Ph.D.
- Submit papers by 11:59 p.m. CT on April 11. The focus is on early-stage work. Partial drafts are encouraged. Submit a link to an up-to-date CV at the same time.
- Presenters will be matched with discussants.
- This day will focus on providing constructive feedback and networking opportunities. Accordingly, attendance will be by invitation only, and the event will not be recorded or posted later. Participants will have discretion over social media publicity and subsequent paper postings.
