The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor (LACPaL) Conference is designed to bring together economists at liberal arts colleges working in the fields of public and labor economics (broadly defined). With a wide variety of research interests, presenters will share their work on topics in education, health, development, labor, taxation, spatial/urban, family economics, among others.
Hirschel Kasper Keynote Speaker: Betsey Stevenson, Professor of Public Policy & Economics at the University of Michigan (slides).
LACPaL 2026 will be the sixth iteration of the conference, following meetings hosted by Grinell, Smith, Bates/Colby, and virtually. To sign up for the LACPaL mailing list, or to find out more about previous LACPaL conferences or the LACPaL virtual seminar series, please visit the LACPaL site.
