Midwest International Economic Development Conference
Welcome to the MWIEDC 2025!
In the spring of 2025, the Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics and the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will host the 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC). The conference will take place from March 28 – 29, 2025, in the Illini Union, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The conference will commence on Friday morning and will conclude after lunch on Saturday.
We invite you, and any other interested faculty and graduate students in your department or elsewhere, to submit a paper to present at the conference. Papers on any topic related to international economic development are welcome. Submissions for an entire session (of 3 or 4 papers) are also welcome.
The deadline for submissions is January 8, 2025, and only full paper submissions will be reviewed. You will be notified by the first week of February whether your paper has been accepted.
Information about topics, papers, and presenters at last year’s conference is available here, and a full history of the conference can be found here.
For questions about submissions, contact: ace-mwiedc-2025@illinois.edu
Keynote Speaker
Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University and the founder of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He conducts field experiments in countries such as Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, and Nepal, focusing on the promotion of welfare-enhancing innovations and behaviors and the scaling of effective development interventions. His research has been covered by major global media outlets and published in the most prestigious journals across disciplines such as Science, Nature, Econometrica, American Economic Review, BMJ, Nature: Medicine, Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, Marketing Science, Demography, and more. He received a Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and was named to Vox’s list of 50 scientists building a better future in 2022.
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Organizers
Mary Arends-Kuenning
Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Professor
Catalina Herrera Almanza
Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Assistant Professor
Sarah Janzen
Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Associate Professor
Marieke Kleemans
Department of Economics
Assistant Professor
Hope C Michelson
Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Associate Professor
Adam Mohamed Osman
Department of Economics
Associate Professor
Hanna Willwerth
Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Research Assistant
Thank you!
We would like to extend a special thank you to all the referees and volunteers who made this event possible: Adithya Vuruputoor, Akito Kamei, Alejandro Estefan, Andres Ham Gonzalez, Anna Fairbairn, Anna Josephson, Anne Fitzpatrick, Aretm Samiahulin, Avishek Dutta, Ben Schwab, Bhargav Sampathkumaran, Callan Whamond, Chidozie Ebenmelu, Christian Valencia, Cristhian Molina, Damia Larbes, Deepika Pingali, Dohyeong Choi, Fan Wang, Farhana Kabir, Fiona Burlig, Francesco Cenerini, Greg Lane, Guilherme Travassos, Hanna Jang, Hannah Kim, Harounan Kazianga, Jake Ricker-Gilbert, Jeff Michler, Jeremy Foltz, Jess Rudder, Jiahan Yin, Jingru Jia, Jisang Yu, Jonathan Bauchet, Josh Deutschmann, Kajal Gulati, Kate Rodgers, Kathleen Beegle, Keitaro Ninomiya, Keliang Xiao, Laura Schechter, Leah Bevis, Lovepreet Singh, Madison Levine, Mia Bonds, Natalia Barreto, Nicolas Pazos, Niranjan Raja, Noel Feller, Pabon Md Nahid Ferdous, Parthu Kalva, Paul Glewwe, Priya Mukherjee, Raphael Ranola, Ronald Cueva, Rong Yuwen, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Shahadat Hossain, Sharanya Bhattacharjee, Shivangi Ambardar, Sofia Dunets, Srini Vasudevan, Tamara McGavock, Tongtong Li, Willa Friedman, Yoko Yamasaki, Youngjoo Jung, and Yusuf Neggers.