CSWEP Call for Abstracts

Sessions at 2026 AEA/ASSA Meeting
January 3-5, 2026 (Saturday, Sunday & Monday)

Philadelphia, PA  Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Deadline: Friday, March 14, 2025

CSWEP invites abstract submissions for paper presentations at seven CSWEP-sponsored sessions at the 2026 AEA/ASSA Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Three sessions will focus on Gender in the Economics Profession, Gender and Climate Justice, and Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply.  

We are planning two sessions on Economic Theory, one focused on individual behavior, one on multiple agents.  For the first, topics of interest include decision theory and behavioral economics, including experimental work.  For the second, topics may include political economy, information and communication, and organizational economics, with methodologies including game theory, mechanism design, or general equilibrium.  The decision to sponsor particular sessions will depend on the number and quality of submissions received. 

We are also planning two sessions on the Global Economy (all F codes, G15, H87, O19) with a focus on recent and new challenges, such as economic fragmentation and supply chain fragility.  We welcome papers using a variety of methodologies, both theoretical and applied approaches in all areas of international economics, including trade, finance, international development, and international policy coordination.  We are happy to receive full session submissions as well as individual papers.  The decision to sponsor particular sessions will depend on the fit, number, and quality of submissions received. 

CSWEP's primary intention in organizing these sessions is to create an opportunity for junior women to present papers at the meetings, and to provide an opportunity to meet with and receive feedback from leading economists in their field. For this reason, the presenting author of each paper should be a junior woman. The term junior woman usually refers to anyone identifying as a woman or nonbinary who is untenured, or who has received a PhD less than seven years ago but could also refer to a woman who has not yet presented papers widely. There are no restrictions on the gender or seniority of coauthors. There are two exceptions to the requirement that the presenting author be a junior woman – the gender-related sessions are open to all junior economists, and potential sessions on gender in the economics profession are open to all.

The organizers of the AEA sessions will select a subset of the presented papers for publication in the 2026 AEA Papers & Proceedings. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit their papers for publication consideration in December 2025.

In addition to individual paper submissions, complete session proposals may be submitted, but the papers in the session proposal will be considered individually. Duplication of paper presentation at multiple AEA sessions is not permitted; therefore, authors will be expected to notify CSWEP immediately and withdraw their abstract if their paper is accepted for a non-CSWEP session at the 2026 AEA/ASSA Meeting. Similarly, authors whose paper is accepted to a 2026 CSWEP session will be expected to withdraw it from consideration by any other organization at the same meetings.

The deadline for submission is March 14, 2025.

To have research considered for the CSWEP-sponsored sessions at the 2026 AEA/ASSA Meeting, the Correspondence Author must:

(1) complete the online submission form and 
(2) send the abstract to 2026 Submission Box

The application form will ask for the following information:

1.   Indication of submission to one of the sessions:
•    Economics of Gender in the Economics Profession
•    Gender and Climate Justice
•    Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply 
•    Economic Theory
•    Global Economy
2.   Indication of a single abstract submission or a complete session submission.
3.   The Name, Title, Affiliation, and Email of the correspondence author or session organizer.
4.   Name(s), Title(s), Affiliation(s), and Email address(es) for any coauthor(s) or for each corresponding author in a complete session submission.

The abstract should be a PDF document, not exceeding two pages in length, double-spaced, with a maximum of 650 words (not including references). It is crucial you save your PDF with the following format, “Corresponding Author Last Name-First Name Abstract Title.”

The abstract should contain details on motivation, contribution, methodology, and data (if applicable); and be clearly identified with the author(s) name(s). Completed papers may be sent but may not substitute for an abstract of the appropriate length.

Any other questions can be addressed to Kristine Etter, Committee Coordinator, at info@cswep.org.