Stanislav Avdeev wins Best Paper Award at the ESPE Conference in Naples

Stanislav Avdeev was awarded the 2025 ESPE PhD Prize, created to recognize outstanding work by PhD candidates in population economics.

Stanislav is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Amsterdam. His paper, “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization,” explores the long-term impact of international students on native students in higher education.

This year’s conference was held in Naples on June 12-14, 2025, and featured close to 250 presentations divided into 9 sessions, out of which 20% of the presentations were by PhD students. You can visit the conference website for a full program.

Other shortlisted papers were:

“Family Spillovers of Miscarriage” by Lea-Karla Matić
“Experience Rating in Short-Time Work” by Giulia Tarullo
“Migration, Diffusion of Ideas and the Rise of the American Labor Movement: Evidence from the American Civil War” by Pablo Zarate

ESPE wishes to congratulate the winner and the short-listed candidates.