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LAEF Conference 2026

Demographics in the 21st Century

Call for papers
Now Open, Deadline to Submit Jan 31, 2026
Questions?
Please contact clev.research.department@clev.frb.org

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The Federal Bank of Cleveland and Finn Kydland’s Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at UCSB announce an academic conference highlighting demographic work at the frontier of economic sciences. The conference seeks to showcase work studying how and why developing and advanced economies are experiencing population aging and declining fertility rates. What are the causes and consequences of aging for the viability of social insurance systems and health care markets? What are the causes and consequences of declining fertility rates for market productivity and fiscal solvency? These are amongst the many questions the conference will consider.

Call for Papers

We invite submissions from all fields in economics. Primary consideration will be given to work that uses disciplined micro foundations to both theoretically and quantitatively study the mechanisms driving various demographic phenomena. We also encourage submissions from authors working with novel datasets that yield rich, new findings. Working papers may be submitted via Conference Maker at the following link: https://editorialexpress.com/conference/Demo21Cen/. We aim for a January 31 submission deadline, with decisions to be made by late February.

Conference Organizers

  • Karen Kopecky, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
  • Nick Pretnar, LAEF at UCSB
  • Ben Griffy, University at Albany
  • John Jones, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When and where

April 30 – May 1, 2026
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland