39th IARIW General Conference

Brussels, Belgium | August 24 – 28, 2026

Timeline:

• Submissions Open – April 24, 2025 – September 30, 2025
• Submission Notifications – Mid-December 2025
• Registration Portal – Spring 2026

Important Links:

• Call for Papers
• Submissions Portal
• National Bank of Belgium
• National Bank of Belgium Museum
• Visit Brussels – Things to Do

Themes: Please see here for detailed theme descriptions & organizers.

• Theme 1: Advancing Well-being Measurement and Application: Bridging Research and Practice
• Theme 2: Determinants of Well-being
• Theme 3: Non-Traditional Data
• Theme 4: Advances in Distributional National Accounts
• Theme 5: Challenges in Measuring Consumption: Today’s Choices and Tomorrow’s Outcomes
• Theme 6: Inequality and Housing: Micro and Macro Perspectives on Housing Affordability
• Theme 7: Capital Stock
• Theme 8: Inequality of Opportunity, the Top End of the Income Distribution, and the Political Salience of Inequality
• Theme 9: The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA)
• Theme 10: Productivity and Infrastructure
• Theme 11: Other

Program Committee:

• Charles Yuji Horioka, Center for Social Systems Innovation at Kobe University
• Shatakshee Dhonghe, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Jorrit Zwijnenburg, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Marina Gindelsky, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Registration & Travel: Coming spring 2026

Questions or suggestions for new themes? Email info@iariw.org.