6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy
Dates: 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London
About QPE
Based in the Department of Political Economy at KCL, the Quantitative Political Economy research group (QPE) strives to gather political scientists and economists and is committed to bridging the two disciplines.
About the Workshop
We look forward to offering excellent networking opportunity, insightful feedback, and social events for early career quantitative political economists.
We welcome PhD students and Postdocs from all social science disciplines who either apply advanced quantitative methods or formal modelling to study political economy and politics, or who conduct quantitative policy evaluations. Selected participants will discuss their work for 30 minutes. Each presenter will be assigned a discussant from KCL faculty.
In addition to presentations from early-career academics, the workshop will include a keynote address by Shanker Satyanath (New York University)
Participants are invited for a conference dinner on the evening of May 14th.
There is no fee for the event. We have a limited number of travel and accommodation grants available. If you require one of the grants to attend the workshop, please indicate this in the application form.
The workshop will start around 9:00 on 14 May, and it will end around 17:00 on 15 May, followed by a reception.
How to Apply
Fill the application form here. The deadline is 10 March, 2026.
Previous edition
19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London
Monday 19 May
Location: Bush House Lecture Theatre 3, BH (North East) 0.01
15:30 to 16:00 Welcome
16:00 to 17:00 Keynote lecture Prof. Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick)
17:00 to 19:30 Drinks reception
Tuesday 20 May
Location: Bush House Lecture Theatre 3, BH (North East) 0.01
9:30 - 10:15 Alejandro López Peceño. When Indoctrination Backfires: Public Education Expansion and Contentious Politics in 19th-Century France. Discussant: David Chilosi
10:15 – 11:00 Maddalena Totarelli. Prison Rehabilitation Programs, Recidivism, and Labor Market Outcomes. Discussant: Cevat Aksoy
11:00- 11:30 Coffee break
11:30: - 12:15 Josep Serrano-Serrat. South-South Immigration and Redistribution Preferences: Evidence from Colombia. Discussant: Pierre-Louis Vezina
12:15- 13:00 Laura Barros. Job Loss and Political Entry. Discussant: Bouke Klein Teeselink
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Keynote lecture Prof. Peter van der Windt (NYU Abu Dhabi)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:15 Silviya Nitsova: Oligarchic Networks of Influence and Legislatures in Developing Democracies: Evidence from Ukraine. Discussant: Christel Koop
16:15 - 17:00 Jacob Edenhofer: Levelling up by levelling down? The economic and political costs of Brexit. Discussant: Yonatan Berman
17:30 - Drinks and dinner for participants
Wednesday 21 May
Location: Bush House (North East) -1.01
9:30 - 10:15 Lorenz Meister. Populism and Narratives of Social Mobility. Discussant: Krzysztof Krakowski
10:15 - 11:00 Alessandra Moresi. The Impact of the 2017 Women's March on Female Political Representation. Discussant: Konstantinos Matakos
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 Laura Perez Cervera. Affirming a Racial Divide? The Political Consequences of Affirmative Action in Brazil. Discussant: Raphael Cunha
12:15 - 13:00 Christopher Burnitt. Secession Clauses: Let them decide (to stay). Discussant: Alberto Vesperoni