31st International Panel Data Conference
July 6-7, 2026
Posted by Sebastian Kripfganz
7 July 2026
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the best paper award for early-career researchers, sponsored by the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE).

1st prize: Björn Höppner (University of Bonn) for his paper “Group-specific heterogeneity in short binary outcome panels”
2nd prize: Mikihito Nishi (University of Tokyo) for his paper “Post-clustering heterogeneity pursuit in panel data with approximate group structure”
Honourable mention: Tilman Bretschneider (Lund University) for his paper “Factor-based imputation of missing values using cross-section averages”