5th ACES Summer School in Political Economy 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 15, 2026

Applications are open for the 5th ACES Summer School in Political Economy 2026. The Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) Summer School in Political Economy is a multi-day workshop that gives instruction and mentorship to younger students by skilled college throughout many related fields.

This 3-day summer season college will expose contributors to slicing-edge analysis in political financial system, financial historical past, and growth economics, and provide college students a singular OPPORTUNITY to work together with mentors. Participants will obtain suggestions on their analysis concepts in targeted mentoring periods each from college and from different college students. The college additionally gives a possibility to develop networks with different younger students in political financial system and associated subfields of economics.

Faculty scheduled to guide periods embrace Farzana Afridi (ISI – Delhi), Michael Callen (London School of Economics), Ruben Enikolopov (Barcelona School of Economics), Saumitra Jha (Stanford University), Horacio Larreguy (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), Sara Lowes (University of California, San Diego), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Maria Petrova (Barcelona School of Economics), and Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago), and Jie Zhou (Yale University), with extra college bulletins forthcoming.

Costs

• There isn’t any price to apply to or attend the Summer School. ACES gives lodging and at the least one meal per day.
• While they try and make funding accessible to assist college students offset journey prices, particularly for college kids coming from low earnings international locations, college students shouldn’t apply with the expectation that journey will probably be funded by ACES. They encourage college students to discover funding alternatives at their home establishments.  

Eligibility

• ACES is inviting purposes from PhD college students in political financial system, financial historical past, and growth economics.
• Applicants could also be from anyplace in the world.

Application

To apply, submit a two-web page analysis define on a particular subject and a CV to Brian Deutsch, Coordinator of Membership Services, at [email protected]. The deadline is April 15, 2026 at 11:59 pm EST; purposes acquired after the deadline won’t be thought of.

For extra data, go to 5th ACES Summer School in Political Economy.