In the spring of 2024, the University of Chicago will host the 21st Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC). The conference will take place from April 5 – 6, 2024, at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will commence on Friday morning and will conclude after lunch on Saturday.

Organizers

Michael Kremer

University Professor in Economics and the College and the Harris School of Public Policy

Christopher Blattman

Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

Chang-Tai Hsieh

Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Distinguished Service Professor

Benjamin Krause

Executive Director

Christina Brown

Assistant Professor

Eduardo Montero

Assistant Professor

Scientific Committee

Colin Aitken
Nathan Barker
Samuel Chang
Moustafa El-Kashlan
Clair Fan
Siobhan Finnerty
Haoran Gao
Rubina Hundal
Shanon Hsu
Zachary Kuloszewski
Lina Marcela Ramirez Leguizamon
Aaron Leonard
Pepi Pandiloski
Tanya Rajan
Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl
Srinivasan Vasudevan
Jun Wong

Program

General Agenda

All conference events take place at Rubenstein Forum located at 1201 E 60thStreet, Chicago 60637.

Friday, April 5

TimeEventLocation
7:30 am – 8:30 amRegistrationOutside University A/B
8:30 am – 9:30 amKeynote Speaker James Heckman
Opening remarks Michael Kremer
University A/B
9:30 am – 9;45m amBreak and refreshmentsOutside University A/B
9:45 am – 11:45 amSession Block 1Click on each session to see location
11:45- am – 1:15 pmLunch and Keynote Speakers:  Stefan DerconRachel Glennerster, & Daniel KnowlesUniversity A/B
1:15 pm – 1:30 pmBreak
1:30 pm – 3:00 pmSession Block 2Click on each session to see location
3:00 pm – 3:15 pmBreak and refreshmentsOutside University A/B
3:15 pm – 4:45 pmSession Block 3Click on each session to see location
4:45 pm – 5:00 pmBreak
5:00 pm – 6:30 pmSession Block 4Click on each session to see location
6:30 pm – 8:00 pmReceptionCity View Room

 

Saturday, April 6

TimeEventLocation
8:30 am – 10:30 amSession Block 5Click on each session to see location
10:30 am – 10:45Break and refreshmentsOutside University A/B
10:45 am – 12:15 pmSession Block 6Click on each session to see location
12:15 pm – 2:00 pmLunch and Keynote Speakers: Chang-Tai Hsieh, Nancy Qian, & Amy YeeUniversity A/B
2:00 pm – 2:15 pmBreak
2:15 pm – 4:15 pmSession Block 7Click on each session to see location

 


Session Track Agenda

Session Topics

Session 1

(1A) Education & Outcomes, University A/B – 2nd floor
(1B) Cash Transfers, Room 501-502
(1C) Health, Disease & Medication, Room 503
(1D) Firms, Finance & Labor Markets, Room 504

Session 2

(2A) RCT Evaluations, Room 501-502
(2B) Women’s Empowerment, Room 503
(2C) Corruption & Unrest, Room 504

Session 3

(3A) Housing & Education, University A/B-2nd floor
(3B) Gender & Labor Markets, Room 504

Session 4

(4A) Power & Governance, Room 501-502
(4B) Agriculture, Room 503
(4C) Nation Building & Conflict, Room 504

Session 5

(5A) Education & Program Success, University A/B – 2nd floor
(5B) Social Behavior & Norms, Room 501-502
(5C) Environmental Policy & Agriculture, Room 503
(5D) Labor Markets – Wages & Unions, Room 504

Session 6

(6A) Political Economics & Climate, University A/B – 2nd floor
(6B) Land & Conflict, Room 501-502
(6C) Gender & Violence, Room 503
(6D) Households, Room 504

Session 7

(7A) Labor Markets – Employment Search, University A/B – 2nd floor
(7B) Education, Room 501-502
(7C) Migration, Room 503
(7D) Governance, Room 504

 


Session 1A – Education & Outcomes

Session 1A

April 5, 2024 | 9:45 am – 11:45 am
Location: University A/B – 2nd floor

TitlePresenter 
Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world’s largest humanitarian cash transfer programAysun Hiziroglu Aygun
The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-term Outcomes in Rural EthiopiaStefan Dercon
Hard to Read: The Impact of Advanced Reading Assignments on Language and Literacy OutcomesWendy Wong
Can a Light-Touch Graduation Model Enhance Livelihood Outcomes? Evidence from EthiopiaJessica Leight

Session 1B – Cash Transfers

Session 1B

April 5, 2024 | 9:45 am – 11:45 am
Location: Room 501-502

TitlePresenter 
The Health Effects of In Utero Exposure to Cash TransfersMo Alloush
Banking on Education: How Credit Access
Promotes Human Capital Development 
Saravana Ravindran
Money Matters: Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme on Child and Maternal HealthAnshika Mathur
To Defer or to Differ: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Cash Transfers in Nigerian Couples’ Decision-makingM. Mehrab Bakhtiar

Session 1C – Health, Disease & Medication

Session 1C

April 5, 2024 | 9:45 am – 11:45 am
Location: Room 503

TitlePresenter 
Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in BrazilJon Denton-Schneider
The Political Economy of a “Miracle Cure”: The Case of Nebulized Ibuprofen and its Diffusion in ArgentinaJuan Cruz Lopez Del Valle
The Long Term Benefits of Vaccination Campaigns: Evidence from Measles in MexicoAlicia Atwood
Financial Concerns and SleeplessnessMaulik Jagnani

Session 1D – Firms, Finance & Labor Markets

Session 1D

April 5, 2024 | 9:45 am – 11:45 am
Location: Room 504

TitlePresenter 
Do Prize-Linked Savings Incentives Increase Savings? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in ColombiaJustin Holz
Vertical Integration & Relational Contracts: The Threat Point EffectRussell Morton
Selection and Heterogeneity in the Returns to MigrationMarieke Kleemans
Corporate taxes and labor market informality: Evidence from a national tax reform in ChinaManuel Hernandez

Session 2A – RCT Evaluations

Session 2A

April 5, 2024 | 1:30 pm – 3:00pm
Location: Room 501-502

TitlePresenter 
Nudging at Scale: Combining Random and Quasi-Random Variation to Evaluate the Scale-Up of Incentives for Immunization in PakistanMaryiam Haroon
Site Selection and External Validity in Observational and Experimental Settings: How a “risky” RCT may underperform OLSChristian Ahlin
Measuring Misallocation with ExperimentsJeremy Majerovitz

Session 2B – Women’s Empowerment

Session 2B

April 5, 2024 | 1:30 pm – 3:00pm
Location: Room 503

TitlePresenter 
Distance learning to expand women’s professional development opportunities in rural NepalSarah Janzen
Bring A Friend: Leveraging Financial and Peer Support to Improve Women’s Reproductive Agency in IndiaCatalina Herrera Almanza
Digital Financial Services and Women’s Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from TanzaniaEmma Riley

Session 2C – Corruption & Unrest

Session 2C

April 5, 2024 | 1:30 pm – 3:00pm
Location: Room 504

TitlePresenter 
Port-Au-Prince Calling: Social Network Response to Social Unrest using Mobile Phone Metadata in HaitiDaniel Putman
Peace and Petty Corruption: Evidence from Trucking in Côte d’IvoireJeremy Foltz
Corruption and Talent AllocationYang Xun

Session 3A – Housing & Education

Session 3A

April 5, 2024 | 3:15 pm – 4:45pm
Location: University A/B – 2nd Floor

TitlePresenter 
The Effects of Public Housing on Children: Evidence from a National Experiment in ColombiaValentina Duque
From Access to Achievement: The Primary-School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived CommunitiesSaravana Ravindran
Housing and Human Capital: Condominiums in EthiopiaDaniel Agness

Session 3B – Gender & Labor Markets

Session 3B

April 5, 2024 | 3:15 pm – 4:45pm
Location: Room 504

TitlePresenter 
Virtual Windows Through Glass Walls? Digitization for Low-Mobility Female EntrepreneursLayane Alhorr
Bringing Work Home: Flexible Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West BengalLisa Ho
What Works For Her: How Work-from-Home Digital Jobs Affect Female Labor Force Participation in Urban IndiaSuhani Jalota

Session 4A – Power & Governance

Session 4A

April 5, 2024 | 5:00 pm – 6:30pm
Location: Room 501-502

TitlePresenter 
Power Consolidation in GroupsFreddie Papazyan
Who Becomes a Local Politician? Evidence from Rural IndiaM R Sharan
Is Basic Democracy Enough?Cory Smith

Session 4B – Agriculture

Session 4B

April 5, 2024 | 5:00 pm – 6:30pm
Location: Room 503

TitlePresenter 
Alcohol, Labor, and Agricultural ProductivityDavid Murphy
Farm Household MisallocationJedediah Silver
Innovation and Technological Mismatch: Experimental Evidence from Improved Crop SeedsSergio Puerto

Session 4C – Nation Building & Conflict

Session 4C

April 5, 2024 | 5:00 pm – 6:30pm
Location: Room 504

TitlePresenter 
War Mobilization and Economic Development: World War II and Structural Transformation in IndiaAneesha Parvathaneni
The Road to Nation Building: Infrastructure Development, Political Patronage and Ethnic Identification in AfricaMariama Sow
Bargaining over State Building in the Shadow of WarYusuf Magiya

Session 5A – Education & Program Success

Session 5A

April 6, 2024 | 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Location: University A/B – 2nd floor

TitlePresenter 
Why Programs Fail: Lessons for Improving Public Service Quality from a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Unsuccessful Teacher Training Program in NepalPaul Glewwe
Nudging Parents Out the Door: The Impacts of Parental Encouragement on School Choice and Test ScoresGuthrie Gray-Lobe
Early Education, Preferences, and Decision-Making AbilitiesDamien de Walque
Improving the Early Childhood Environment: Direct and Distributional Effects on Human Capital for Multiple GenerationsGisella Kagy

Session 5B – Social Behavior & Norms

Session 5B

April 6, 2024 | 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Location: Room 501-502

TitlePresenter 
Unintended Consequences of CCT Programs on Gender Role AttitudesHa Luong
Lasting effects of gender apartheid on attitudes toward womenAhmad Shah Mobariz
Local Media Reports about Sexual Crimes and Judicial Outcomes in IndiaMahima Vasishth
The Persistent Effects of Extrinsic and Social Image Incentives on Prosocial BehaviorAnne Karing

Session 5C – Environmental Policy & Agriculture

Session 5C

April 6, 2024 | 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Location: Room 503

TitlePresenter 
Border Trade and Information Frictions: Evidence from Informal Traders in KenyaEleanor Wiseman
Timing lumpy investments with informal bridge loans and clunky formal loans: Evidence from ThailandFan Wang
Targeting subsidies through price menus: Menu design and evidence from clean fuelsPaulina Oliva
Transportation Infrastructure, Market Access, and DeforestationClark Lundberg

Session 5D – Labor Markets – Wages & Unions

Session 5D

April 6, 2024 | 8:30 am – 9:30 am
Location: Room 504

TitlePresenter 
Collective Bargaining Networks, Rent-sharing, and the Propagation of ShocksSantiago Hermo
Labor Market InstitutionsLorenzo Lagos
Union Leaders Experimental Evidence from MyanmarVirginia Minni

Session 6A – Political Economics & Climate

Session 6A

April 6, 2024 | 10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Location: University A/B – 2nd floor

TitlePresenter 
Does Local Politics Drive Tropical Land-Use Change? Property-Level Evidence from the AmazonFanny Moffette
Downpours of Deprivation: Exploring the Impact of Excess Rainfall Shocks on Perceived Relative Deprivation in Peru Judhajit Chakraborty
Mortality and rainfall in a developing megacityAshwin Rode

Session 6B – Land & Conflict

Session 6B

April 6, 2024 | 10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Location: Room 501-502

TitlePresenter 
The grievances of a failed reform: Chilean land reform and conflict with indigenous communitiesDany Jaimovich
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Artisanal Mine Certifications and Conflict Dynamics in the CongoSamuel Chang
he Persistent Health Effects of Defoliating VietnamNguyen Vuong

 

Session 6C – Gender & Violence

Session 6C

April 6, 2024 | 10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Location: Room 503

TitlePresenter 
Social Pensions and Intimate Partner Violence against Older WomenHan Ye
Time-of-day Effects on Disclosure of Intimate Partner ViolenceKatherine Theiss
Artisanal Mining and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan AfricaTsenguunjav Byambasuren

 

Session 6D – Households

Session 6D

April 6, 2024 | 10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Location: Room 504

TitlePresenter 
The economics of abduction marriage: Evidence from EthiopiaJorge Garcia Hombrados
Secondary school access raises primary school achievementWayne Aaron Sandholtz
Media, Politics and Conflict: Evidence from Television in IndiaPaul Brimble

Session 7A – Labor Markets – Employment Search

Session 7A

April 6, 2024 | 2:15 pm – 4:15pm
Location: University A/B – 2nd floor

TitlePresenter 
The Grass is Not Always Greener: The Effects of Local Labor Market Information on Search and EmploymentNiharika Singh
Competitive Job Seekers: When Sharing Less Leaves Firms at a LossGaurav Chiplunkar
Expected Discrimination and Job SearchIeda Matavelli
Supervision at Work: Evidence from a Field ExperimentRitwika Sen

Session 7B – Education

Session 7B

April 6, 2024 | 2:15 pm – 4:15pm
Location: Room 501-502

TitlePresenter 
Armed Conflict and Girls: Education in AfricaXiao Hui Tai
The Long-Term Distributional Impacts of a Full-Year Interleaving Math Program in NigeriaMichael Kremer
FrenchMasahiro Kubo
The Value of ConcisionGuthrie Gray-Lobe

Session 7C – Migration

Session 7C

April 6, 2024 | 2:15 pm – 4:15pm
Location: Room 503

TitlePresenter 
Matching With The Right Attitude: The Effect of Matching Firms With Refugee WorkersFrancesco Loiacono
When Refugees Become Natives: Intergenerational Assimilation of Palestinian Refugees in Jordan and the Role of NationalityYasuka Tateishi
Place-based Policy, Migration Barriers, and Spatial InequalityNghiem Huynh
To Follow the Crowd: Benefits and Costs of Migrant NetworksYulu Tang

Session 7D – Governance

Session 7D

April 6, 2024 | 2:15 pm – 4:15pm
Location: Room 504

TitlePresenter 
Bureaucrats and the Korean Export MiraclePhilipp Barteska
Bureaucratic Deliberation and Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment in BeninShan Aman-Rana
Formalizing Dispute Resolution: Effects of Village Courts in BangladeshMartin Mattsson
Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from IndiaAlex Armand


Information about topics, papers and presenters at last year’s conference is available here, and a full history of the conference can be found here.

Keynote

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College

Stefan Dercon is a Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, focusing on how to achieve change.

He combines his academic career with work as a policy advisor, providing strategic economic and development advice, and promoting the use of evidence in decision making. Between 2011 and 2017, he was Chief Economist of the Department of International Development (DFID), the government department in charge with the UK’s aid policy and spending. Between 2020-2022, he was the Development Policy Advisor to successive Foreign Secretaries at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

He is a Fellow of BREAD, a Research Fellow of CEPR and of IZA, an Affiliate of J-PAL, a Non-resident Fellow, Centre for Global Development, Washington and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacture (FRSA). He studied economics and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and holds an MPhil and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Before re-joining the University of Oxford, he held positions at the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the Catholic University of Leuven, and WIDER (Helsinki), part of the United Nations University.

In 2018, the Queen awarded him as an honorary Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to economics and international development.


Rachel Glennerster, Associate Professor of Economics in the Division of Social Science at the University of Chicago

Rachel Glennerster is an associate professor of economics in the Division of Social Science at the University of Chicago. She uses randomized trials to study democracy and accountability, health, education, microfinance, and women’s empowerment mainly in West Africa and South Asia. She has also written on strategies to stimulate innovation, promoting more equitable access to vaccines, and the response to Ebola and COVID-19 pandemics.

Dr. Glennerster joined the University of Chicago community after serving as Chief Economist at the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Department for International Development in the UK. From 2004 to 2017, she served as Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) a center in the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which seeks to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence and helped pioneer the use of randomized trials in development economics. She also previously served as the Co-Chair of J-PAL’s Agricultural Technology and Adoption Initiative and its Post-Primary Education Initiative.

In 2021, Dr. Glennerster was appointed Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) for services in international development. She currently serves as the chair of Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), a development organization that utilizes evidence-backed educational approaches to help children develop basic reading and mathematical skills.


James Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development at the University of Chicago 

James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development at the University of Chicago. He has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic questions related to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, and the formation of skills and regulation in labor markets, as well as to devising and applying economically interpretable empirical strategies for understanding and addressing these questions.

His work spans contexts and cultures. Current research at CEHD includes analyzing the impact of early childhood programs around the world by studying the immediate and long-term impacts of interventions (including the impacts in midlife on health and on other family members), both in the United States and in a new project in China. His research also uses original data gathered in the U.S., China and Germany to measure preferences and traits to help inform governments, schools and teachers about how socioemotional can help students achieve their full potential.

In 2000, Heckman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the microeconometrics of diversity and heterogeneity and for establishing a sound causal basis for public policy evaluation. He has received numerous other awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Medal, the Jacob Mincer Award, the 2005 and 2007 Dennis Aigner Award for Applied Econometrics, the Ulysses Medal from the University College Dublin, the Theodore W. Schultz Award, the Gold Medal of the President of the Italian Republic, the Frisch Medal, the Dan David Prize, and the Chinese Government Friendship Award.

Heckman has a B.A. in Mathematics from Colorado College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. He has been at the University of Chicago since 1973. 


Chang-Tai Hsieh, Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and PCL Faculty Scholar

Chang-Tai Hsieh conducts research on growth and development. His published papers include “The Life-Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico,” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics; “Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India,” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics; “Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity,” in the American Economic Review; “Can Free Entry be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry,” in the Journal of Political Economy; “What Explains the Industrial Revolution in East Asia? Evidence from the Factor Markets,” in the American Economic Review; “The Allocation of Talent and US Economic Growth,” in Econometrica; “How Destructive is Innovation?” in Econometrica; and “Special Deals with Chinese Characteristics,” in the NBER Macroeconomics Annual.

Hsieh has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis, as well as the World Bank’s Development Economics Group and the Economic Planning Agency in Japan. He is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, and a member of the Steering Group of the International Growth Center in London.

He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, an Elected Member of Academia Sinica, and a two-time recipient of the Sun Ye-Fang Prize. 


Daniel Knowles, Midwest correspondent for The Economist, based in Chicago

Daniel Knowles is the Midwest correspondent for The Economist, based in Chicago. He covers stories across the region, but is especially interested in urban government, crime, social change, and transportation.

Mr. Knowles previously worked on the foreign desk in London, as international correspondent, where he covered stories particularly around conflict, corruption and state failure. He has also headed the paper’s bureaus in Mumbai and Nairobi and worked as a political reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau. Mr. Knowles’s book, “Carmageddon”, about why the world needs fewer automobiles, published in March 2023.


Nancy Qian, James J. O’Connor Professor at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, MEDS department

Nancy Qian is an empirical economist and researches questions about economic development, political economy and economic history. She is particularly interested in long-run economic and institutional development. I co-direct the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University and founded the independent China Econ Lab.

Professor Qian’s research investigates the drivers of long-run economic, culture and political evolution. She has studied the causes and consequences of formal institutions, such as elections, and cultural norms, and gender preference and racial identity. She uses theory-driven frameworks and empirical evidence to resolve historical puzzles, such as the causes of the Great Chinese and Soviet Famines, or the presence of local democracy within autocratic regimes.

Her work spans many current and historical contexts such as China, the United States, former Eastern Bloc countries and sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has been published in top academic journals and featured in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, as well the recipient of many prestigious awards and grants. She serves in several editorial positions and has consulted for agencies such as The World Bank, the Global Development Network and the China Development Bank.

Her non-academic writings can be found here.


Amy Yee, Journalist and Writer at Chicago Sun-Times

Amy Yee is an award-winning journalist, currently with Chicago Sun-Times covering the economy, business, and labor. She is a former staff reporter and foreign correspondent for the Financial Times in New York and India, as well as for Bloomberg/ CityLab writing about inequality in the US and solutions to social problems.
Amy has also written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, NPR and 30+ US and UK media outlets. She has reported from more than 20 countries, including ten in Africa, as well as India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Amy is the author of the nonfiction book “Far From the Rooftop of the World” with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama, about Tibetan refugees in India and beyond.

She has won three awards from the United Nations Correspondents Association for reporting on climate change solutions in Bangladesh; first place from the Association of Healthcare Journalists for articles about reducing deaths of children in India and Bangladesh; and four awards from the South Asian Journalists Association.

In 2023 she won the Asian American Journalists Association’s award for reporting about protecting rights of immigrant voters in Philadelphia; a Society of Professional Journalists award for racial equity reporting; and Chicago Journalists Association’s award for best Business story about equitable small business loans.

More about her is at amyyeewrites.com.

Travel

Hotel Accommodations
There are many wonderful hotels throughout Chicago. We recommend booking accommodations in the Hyde Park or South Loop neighborhoods, both of which are easily accessible to the University of Chicago Campus by public transportation, taxis, and/or rideshare services (including Uber and Lyft).

Hyde Park Hotels

  • The Study at University of Chicago
  •  SOPHY – Hyde Park
    • Rates: range between $317 – 403/night
    • Reservations can be made at 833-347 – 0042 or online at this booking link
      • For 15% off booking, use promo code: UNCH
  • Hyatt Place Chicago-South/University Medical Center
    • Rates: range between $256 – 385/night
    • Reservations can be made at 773-752-5300 or online

South Loop Hotels – Easily accessible via the Metra Electric Line

  • Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
    • Rates: range between $207 – 294/night
    • Reservations can be made at 312-567-1234 or online
    • Metra Stop: McCormick Place
  • Hilton Garden Inn Chicago Downtown South Loop
    • Rates: range between $150 – $238/night
    • Reservations can be made online
    • Metra Stop: Museum Campus/11th St

If you are flying into Chicago, we recommend Midway International Airport (MDW) which is about 8 miles from campus. Alternatively, O’Hare International Airport (ORD), which generally has less expensive and a greater number of flights, is about 25 miles from campus. 

Registration

The registration fees for the 2024 MWIEDC are:

  • $325 for Faculty, Staff, and Administration
  • $225 for Students

Registration includes morning pastries, tea and coffee, and lunch on both Friday and Saturday as well as a reception Friday night.

You may register at the link below.

Register

Please note: cancellations made within 48 hours prior to the event are non-refundable.