Call for Papers
10-11 December, 2026
OECD, PARIS

 

Description: The CEPII, the CEPR Research Policy Network on Migration, LISER, and the OECD as well as their partners from the International Migration Economics Chair at Paris School of Economics, the Fondazione Rodolfo De Benedetti, the LEM (Laboratory of Economics and Management), and the University of Luxembourg are jointly organizing the 16th Annual Conference on “Immigration in OECD Countries” on December 10-11, 2026. The conference will examine the economic aspects of international migration in OECD countries by mapping the migratory flows and analyzing their socio-economic determinants and consequences. Topics of interest include, among others, the determinants of immigration to the OECD, migrants’ selfselection,
the political economy of immigration, its labor market and public finance effects, as well as migrants and refugees social, political and economic integration.
 

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago
Michela Carlana, Harvard University
Alan Manning, LSE
 

Young Scholar Award for the “best immigration economics paper”: A special prize will be awarded to one of the papers presented at the conference. The amount of the prize is €2,000 and is funded by the CEPR Research Policy Network on Migration. When submitting your paper, please indicate whether you plan to compete for the prize. To be eligible, all authors should be less than 35 by December 31, 2026.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING A PAPER
 

Submissions: All papers examining immigration in OECD countries from an economic perspective will be considered. Authors must submit a full paper directly on the conference website: https://immigoecd16.sciencesconf.org. The author making the submission must provide the full names, affiliations, and email addresses of all coauthors for each submission. Please note that each individual may present only one paper during the conference, though they may be listed as a coauthor on multiple papers.

Fees: There is no registration fee. A conference dinner will be hosted on December 10. The organizers are not in a position to cover travel costs. However, they will cover up to three nights of accommodation in a hotel close to the conference venue.


 

IMPORTANT DATES

September 15, 2026: Deadline for submitting papers
Mid-October, 2026: Authors are notified of the selection results
November 1, 2026: Deadline for registration
Question should sent to: immigoecd16@sciencesconf.org
 

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
 

Cevat Giray Aksoy (EBRD), Michel Beine (Université du Luxembourg, CREA), Simone Bertoli (CERDI), Xavier Chojnicki (Université de Lille, LEM), Ana Damas de Matos (OECD), Frederic Docquier (LISER), Jean-Christophe Dumont (OECD), Anthony Edo (CEPII), Giovanni Facchini (University of Nottingham), Francesco Fasani (University of Milan), Tommaso Frattini (University
of Milan), Christina Gathmann (LISER), Albrecht Glitz (Pompeu Fabra), André Gröger (LISER), Hubert Jayet (Université de Lille, LEM), Clément Imbert (Sciences Po), Anna-Maria Mayda
(Georgetown University), Jean-François Maystadt (UC Louvain), Mariapia Mendola (University of Milano Bicocca), Katrin Millock (PSE), Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell University), Paolo Pinotti (Università Bocconi and Fondazione Rodolfo De benedetti), Lionel Ragot (Université Paris Nanterre, EconomiX, CEPII),
Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1, CEPII), Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics), Jan Stuhler (Carlos III Madrid), Arthur Sweetman (McMaster University), Liam Wren-Lewis (PSE), Jérome Valette (CEPII).

 

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
 

Dominica Andrzejczak (OECD), Jean-Christophe Dumont (OECD), Anthony Edo (CEPII), Lionel Ragot (Université Paris Nanterre, EconomiX, CEPII), Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1, CEPII), and Jérôme Valette (CEPII).