UEA 2026 Chicago

20th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association

September 25 - 26, 2026
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, US

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The Urban Economics Association (UEA) invites the submission of high-quality papers dealing with the economics of cities, housing, real estate, transportation, local public good provision, the spatial distribution of activities, economic geography, and urban or regional policy. The Urban Economics Association seeks to promote participation and excellence in academic research in urban and regional economics.

The 2026 North American Meeting of the UEA is scheduled to take place at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th of September 2026. The conference will run from approximately 9:00 to 18:00 local time on both days and include a reception on Friday night and keynote lectures by Jens Ludwig (Chicago) and Steve Redding (Stanford).

For more information, please visit the conference website at https://urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea2026.

Local Organizers: Daniel Hartley and Jason Faberman (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Program Committee: Jonathan Dingel (Columbia, Chair), Jesse Gregory (Wisconsin, Vice Chair), Tim McQuade (Berkeley, Past Chair), Adrien Bilal (Stanford), Stephen Billings (Colorado), Olivia Bordeu (Berkeley), Edward Coulson (UC Irvine), Levi Crews (UCLA), Anthony Defusco (Wisconsin), Farid Farrokhi (Boston College), Sonia Gilbukh (Baruch), Lu Han (Wisconsin), Greg Howard (Illinois), Remi Jedwab (George Washington), Eunjee Kwon (Cincinnati), Paolo Martellini (NYU Stern), Charles Nathanson (Michigan State), Elio Nimier-David (Cornell), Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell), Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt), Tanner Regan (George Washington), Roman Rivera (Georgetown), Fernanda Rojas Ampuero (Wisconsin), Jordan Rosenthal-Kay (San Francisco FRB), Bradley Setzler (Penn State), Evan Soltas (Princeton), Bryan Stuart (Philadelphia FRB), Yichen Su (Southern Methodist), Chris Timmins (Wisconsin), Clemence Tricaud (UCLA), Winnie Van Dijk (Yale), Shosh Vasserman (Stanford), Andrew Waxman (Texas).

Student Prize Committee: Raven Molloy (Federal Reserve Board, Chair), Bocar Ba (Duke), Nina Harari (Wharton), Allan Hsiao (Stanford), Hanna Rubinton (St Louis Fed), Cailin Slattery (Berkeley).

Submission: Please submit your paper or extended abstract through the online submission form at https://editorialexpress.com/conference/nauea2026/

You may submit individual papers or propose complete sessions.

Individual papers: Individual papers should be complete drafts upon submission. We prefer papers that have not been presented at a previous North American UEA meeting. Submissions of individual papers are grouped into sessions by the program committee. Discussants are typically drawn from other presenters in the same session.

Proposed sessions: You can propose a complete session of 3 or 4 papers. There are three possible formats:

Standard: 20 minute presentation, 5 minute discussion by another presenter in the session, 5 minute Q&A
No discussants: 25 minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A
External discussants: 25 minute presentation, 10 minute discussion by invited discussant, 5 minute Q&A

Session proposals may include early-stage work (e.g., extended abstracts). To submit a session, please pick a topic area and instruct each presenter to submit their paper through the Conference Maker under that same area and then propose your session via this form.

Interest in Attending: If you do not have a paper to submit, but would like to attend and serve as a session chair or paper discussant, please fill out this form.

Submission Deadline: 11:59pm, May 21, 2026. You will be notified in late June whether your submission has been accepted for the conference.

UEA Student Prize: The UEA awards prizes for the best student papers presented at its conferences. Papers presented by full-time PhD students at the time of the conference are eligible for the student prize. Coauthors must also be full-time students, excluding any co-authors who are pre-docs or whose sole role is to facilitate access to data. Please email the chair of the student prize committee, Raven Molloy (Federal Reserve Board of Governors), if your paper is eligible and you do NOT want to be considered for the student prize. Student papers and presentations will be evaluated by the student prize committee and the results will be announced at the conference. See past award winners at https://urbaneconomics.org/meetings/awards.html.