Call for Papers

Call for papers (Link)

The Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO) invites submissions for its 11th Annual Meeting, hosted by the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. We welcome theoretical, empirical and experimental papers on any topic in household economics, in both high-income and developing-country settings.

Submission are now open ! (Link)

Deadline is December 31st!

Keynote Speakers

Lise Vesterlund

University of Pittsburgh

Welcome Keynote

Basit Zafar

University of Michigan

Keynote I

Claudia Olivetti

Dartmouth College

Keynote II

Topics include, but are not limited to

•   Aging, retirement, long-term and informal care, and intergenerational transfers

•   Children's outcomes, early childhood, childcare, parenting and human capital investments

•   Consumption, savings, debt and household finance

•   Development economics and households in low- and middle-income countries

•   Domestic violence and gender-based violence

•   Education and household investments in schooling

•   Fertility, family planning and reproductive health

•   Gender gaps, gender norms and the child penalty

•   Health, mental health and wellbeing

•   Intergenerational mobility and the transmission of advantage

•   Intra-household bargaining, decision-making and resource allocation

•   Labor supply, remote work, parental leave and family policy

•   Marriage, divorce, assortative mating and household formation

•   Migration, geographic mobility and immigrant families

•   Paid and unpaid work, home production and time use

•   Poverty, social protection, cash transfers and the safety net

•   Other topics in household and family economics

Submission Details

•   Submit a full paper at https://editorialexpress.com/conference/SEHO2027

•   Submission deadline: December 31, 2026 (11:59 pm ET)

•   Notification of acceptance: by February 15, 2027

•   Conference website: SEHO 2027

•   Contact: osea.giuntella@pitt.edu

Organizers

Conference Organizer: Osea Giuntella, University of Pittsburgh

Local Organizing Committee: Claire Duquennois and Rania Gihleb, University of Pittsburgh

Scientific Committee

Omer Ali, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Ana Balsa, Vicky Barone, Michele Belot, Kasey Buckles, Jason Cook, Joan Costa-Font, Alex Eble, Bilge Erten, Delia Furtado, Yana Gallen, Laura Gee, Lisa Gennetian, Mike Geruso, Naomi Gershoni, Melanie Guldi, Felix Koenig, Giulia La Mattina, Jakub Lonsky, Lester Lusher, Hani Mansour, Bhash Mazumder, Roberto Nisticò, Francisco Pino, Nishith Prakash, Climent Quintana, Lucie Schmidt, Edson Severnini, Hitoshi Shigeoka, Luca Stella, Joana Venator, Tianyi Wang, Riley Wilson, Ning Zhang

We look forward to welcoming you to Pittsburgh!