MWEPS XII

Purdue University

(April 10, 2026)

The twelfth MWEPS will be held in-person by Purdue University on April 10th. 

The workshop organizers invite submissions of (1) completed papers, (2) detailed research designs, and (3) expressions of interest in being a discussant or session chair. Graduate students and faculty (esp. junior faculty) are both encouraged to submit their work. Priority will be given to graduate students on the job market. We anticipate having 4-5 papers presented during the plenary sessions. In addition, applicants whose proposals are not accepted to the main agenda are invited to participate in a poster session during the happy hour.

Submission deadline: February 11, 2026

In line with the workshop's mission to support rigorous and creative empirically focused research, priority will be given to submissions that use or propose innovative methods or types of data.  We are particularly interested in work that is pushing the frontier of both empirical causal work (field experiments, natural/quasi-experimental methods, etc.) as well as the frontier of empirical descriptive or predictive work (machine learning, text analysis, etc.). We also invite submissions using new types of data (novel administrative data, remote-sensed data, historical data, etc.).

As a workshop that is feedback-focused, we prefer the submission of completed papers that have not already passed through review at a journal.  However, work that is having trouble finding a home in a journal is welcome. 

Some travel support is available for graduate students.

Key MWEPS-XII (Spring 2026) Dates:

February 11, 2026: Submission deadline

February 20, 2026: Announcement of the accepted papers and program

March 20, 2026: Final papers are due from program participants for circulation

April 10, 2026: MWEPS-XII Conference occurs in person 

MWEPS-XII Conveners: Mollie Cohen (Purdue University), Tara Grillos (Purdue University)