Description
The Economics Department at the University of Nebraska is pleased to announce the 2027 Nebraska Labor Summit, a one-day event devoted to discussing research in labor economics and related topics in applied micro. The conference will be held on May 14, 2027, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business in Lincoln, Neb., and will feature two keynote speakers: Zoë Cullen, Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard Business School, and Lisa Kahn, Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester.
In addition, the conference program will feature presentations of working papers submitted by scholars in areas related labor economics, broadly defined. More information on the format of the summit, including last year’s agenda, can be found on the Nebraska Labor Summit website. To submit a paper for consideration, please submit an extended abstract or working paper in PDF format at https://go.unl.edu/nlspapers27. For further questions, please feel free to contact the conference organizers at dtannenbaum@unl.edu or btimpe@unl.edu.
The submission deadline is December 18, 2026. The planning committee will finalize the conference program and notify the authors of submitted papers by February.
The Nebraska Labor Summit is supported by the National Science Foundation, the University of Nebraska College of Business, and the University of Nebraska Department of Economics.
Location
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Date & Time
Friday, May 14, 2027, 12:00 AM
Application Deadline
Dec. 18, 2026