Association Annual Meeting. We assembled a dataset of 29,142 articles and quantified conference effects, using difference-in-differences regressions. Within four years of being presented at the conference, an article's likelihood of becoming cited increases by five percentage points. We decompose the effects by authorship and provide an account of the underlying mechanisms. Overall, our findings point to the role of short term face-to-face interactions in the formation and dissemination of

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... tific knowledge. Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon is a senior lecturer in economics at University of Kent. Ben McQuillin is a senior lecturer in economics at University of East Anglia. The authors would like to thank three referees for helpful comments, and are also grateful for useful inputs from