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ASSA 2026 Webcasts of Select Sessions

Webcasts of select sessions from the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on January 3-5, 2026, compliments of the AEA.

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026

Work Requirements in Transfer Programs

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Presiding: Tom Buchmueller (University of Michigan)
Authors: Jason Cook (University of Utah), Chloe East (University of Colorado-Boulder) (presenting), Katherine Richard (University of Wisconsin-Madison and Georgetown University) (presenting), Lea Bart (U.S. Congressional Budget Office), Jacob Goldin (University of Chicago), Tatiana Homonoff (New York University), Neel Lal (University of Chicago), Katherine Michelmore (University of Michigan), Matthew Unrath (University of Southern California) (presenting), Morgan Henderson (University of Maryland-Baltimore County) (presenting), Laura Spicer (University of Maryland-Baltimore County), Alice Middleton (University of Maryland-Baltimore County), Nathan Tollett (University of Chicago)
Discussants: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (Georgetown University), Marianne Bitler (University of California-Davis), Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University), Lara Shore-Sheppard (Williams College)
 
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The Dollar after the Tariff War

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026   10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)

Presiding: Martin Uribe (Columbia University)
Authors: Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard University) (presenting), Dmitry Mukhin (London School of Economics), Jesse Schreger (Columbia University) (presenting), Amanda Dos Santos (New York University), Matteo Maggiori (Stanford University), Christopher Clayton (Yale University), Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (Brown University) (presenting), Muhammed Yildirim (Brown University), Can Soylu (Brown University), Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) (presenting)
Discussants: Alessandro Dovis (University of Pennsylvania), Linda Tesar (University of Michigan), Maurice Obstfeld (University of California-Berkeley)
 
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AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon - Fee Event

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026   12:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)

Speaker: Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London)
 
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AI and Productivity: Is This Time Different?

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (EST)

Presiding: Karen Dynan (Harvard University)
Authors: Kristina McElheran (University of Toronto) (presenting), Mu-Jeung Yang (University of Oklahoma), Zachary Kroff (U.S. Census Bureau), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University), Martin Neil Baily (Brookings Institution), David M. Byrne (Federal Reserve Board) (presenting), Aidan T. Kane (Brookings Institution), Paul E. Soto (Federal Reserve Board), Francesco Filippucci (OECD), Peter Gal (OECD), Matthias Schief (OECD) (presenting), Filippo Bontadini (LUISS University), Carol Corrado (Georgetown University) (presenting), Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London), Cecilia Jona-Lasinio (LUISS University)
Discussants: Timothy DeStefano (Georgetown University), Anton Korinek (University of Virginia), Chad Syverson (University of Chicago), Bart van Ark (University of Manchester)
 
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AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026   4:45 PM - 6:00 PM (EST)

Speaker: Leah Boustan (Yale University)
 
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Saturday, Jan. 4, 2026

Measuring Development: New Tools

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2026   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Presiding: Pascaline Dupas (Princeton University)
Authors: Pascaline Dupas (Princeton University) (presenting), Nicolás Suárez Chavarría (Stanford University), Zhongyi Tang (Boston University), Jenny Aker (Cornell University) (presenting), Jen Burney (University of California-San Diego), B. Kelsey Jack (University of California-Berkeley), Josh Blumenstock (University of California-Berkeley) (presenting), Daniel Bjorkegren (Columbia University) (presenting), Emily Aiken (University of California-San Diego), Sveta Milusheva (World Bank), M. Merritt Smith (University of California-Berkely)
Discussants: Stephan Heblich (University of Toronto), Christopher Barrett (Cornell University), Noam Angrist (Oxford University), James Foster (George Washington University)
 
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Mission-Driven Health Economics: Engaging Emerging Opportunities and Removing Barriers to Innovation

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2026   10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)

Presiding: James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Panelists: Jay Bhattacharya (National Institutes of Health), David Cutler (Harvard University), Julie Zissimopoulos (University of Southern California), John Phillips (National Institutes of Health)
 
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Future of the Fed

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2026   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (EST)

Presiding: Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago, NBER, and CEPR)
Panelists: Janet Yellen (Brookings Institution), Loretta Mester (Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania), Athanasios Orphanides (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
 
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AEA Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2026   4:40 PM - 6:00 PM (EST)

Speaker: Lawrence Katz (Harvard University)
 
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Sunday, Jan. 5, 2026

The State of Government Economic Statistics

Sunday, Jan. 5, 2026   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Presiding: David Wessel (Brookings Institution)
Panelists: Karen Dynan (Harvard University and AEA), Loretta Mester (Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania), Seth Carpenter (Morgan Stanley), Jed Kolko (Peterson Institute), William Beach (Formerly at Bureau of Labor Statistics)
 
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Legal Status and Immigrant Human Capital

Sunday, Jan. 5, 2026   10:15 AM - 12:15 AM (EST)

Presiding: Kristin Butcher (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Authors: Leander Andres (LMU Munich & ifo Institute), Stefan Bauernschuster (University of Passau), Gordon B. Dahl (University of California-San Diego) (presenting), Helmut Rainer (LMU Munich & ifo Institute), Simone Schüller (German Youth Institute), Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth College) (presenting), Ethan G. Lewis (Dartmouth College), Aryen Shrestha (Dartmouth College), Aimee Chin (University of Houston), Kalena Cortes (Texas A&M University) (presenting), Camila Morales (University of Texas at Dallas), Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (University of California-Merced), Kevin Shih (University of California-Riverside) (presenting)
Discussants: Kristin Butcher (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Chloe East (University of Colorado-Boulder), Na’ama Shenhav (University of California-Berkeley), Julia Zhu (San Diego State University)
 
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Beliefs

Sunday, Jan. 5, 2026   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EST)

Authors: Kevin He (University of Pennsylvania), Ran Shorrer (Pennsylvania State University) (presenting), Mengjia Xia (University of Pennsylvania), Bnaya Dreyfuss (Harvard University) (presenting), Raphaël Raux (Harvard University), Andrew Caplin (New York University), David Deming (Harvard University), Shangwen Li (New York University), Daniel J. Martin (University of California-Santa Barbara) (presenting), Philip Marx (Louisiana State University), Ashesh Rambachan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (presenting)
 
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Intangible Capital

Sunday, Jan. 5, 2026   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EST)

Presiding: Nicolas Crouzet (Northwestern University)
Authors: Amir Sufi (University of Chicago) (presenting), Bianca He (University of Chicago), Lauren Mostrom (University of Chicago), Matthieu Gomez (Columbia University) (presenting), Émilien Gouin-Bonenfant (Columbia University), Nicolas Crouzet (Northwestern University) (presenting), Janice Eberly (Northwestern University)
Discussants: Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University), Lawrence D.W. Schmidt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Thomas Winberry (University of Pennsylvania)
 
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