ASSA 2025 Webcasts of Select Sessions
Webcasts of select sessions from the Annual Meeting in San Francisco on January 3-5, 2025, compliments of the AEA.
Friday, Jan. 3, 2025
Who Cares? Care, Care Work, and Family Leave Policies
Friday, Jan. 03, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)
Presiding: Lawrence Katz (Harvard University)
Panelists: Richard Frank (Harvard Medical School and The Brookings Institution), Ai-Jen Poo (Caring Across Generations & National Domestic Workers Alliance), Maya Rossin-Slater (Stanford University), Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
AI and the Future of Work
Friday, Jan. 03, 2025 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (PST)
Presiding: Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University)
Panelists: John Horton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University), Gillian Hadfield (Johns Hopkins University), Jaime Teevan (Microsoft)
AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon - Fee Event
Friday, Jan. 03, 2025 12:30 PM - 14:15 PM (PST)
Presiding: Lawrence Katz (Harvard University)
Speaker: Emi Nakamura (University of California-Berkeley)
Frontiers for Analysis of Experiments and Clinical Trials
Friday, Jan. 03, 2025 14:30 PM - 16:30 PM (PST)
Presiding: Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
Authors: Susan Athey (Stanford University) (presenting), Marcella Alsan (Harvard University and NBER), John Cawley (Cornell University and NBER), Joseph Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER) (presenting), Nicholas Skelley (Cornell University), Ricardo Godoy (Brandeis University), Dean Karlan (Northwestern University) (presenting), Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth College)
Discussants: Kaspar Wuthrich (University of Michigan), Rita Ginja (University of Bergen), Isaac Opper (RAND), Adrienne Sabety (Stanford University)
AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture
Friday, Jan. 03, 2025 16:45 PM - 18:00 PM (PST)
Speaker: Sendhil Mullainathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025
Inflation and the Macroeconomy
Saturday, Jan. 04, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)
Presiding: Jason Furman (Harvard Kennedy School)
Panelists: Ben Bernanke (The Brookings Institution), John Cochrane (The Hoover Institution), Jason Furman (Harvard Kennedy School), Christina Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
Remembering Robert Solow, 1924-2023
Saturday, Jan. 04, 2025 10:00 AM - 12:15 PM (PST)
Presiding: James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Panelists: George Akerlof (Georgetown University), Chad Jones (Stanford University), Lawrence Katz (Harvard University), Stacey Tevlin (Federal Reserve Board)
Advice on Publishing in Economics and Science Journals
Saturday, Jan. 04, 2025 14:30 PM - 16:30 PM (PST)
Presiding: Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University)
Panelists: Mary-Elizabeth Sutherland (Springer Nature Group and Editor of Nature), John List (University of Chicago and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy), Erzo Luttmer (Dartmouth College and Editor of the American Economic Review), Orley Ashenfelter (Emeritus Princeton University and Editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
AEA Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address
Saturday, Jan. 04, 2025 16:45 PM - 18:00 PM (PST)
Presiding: Lawrence Katz (Harvard University)
Speaker: Janet Currie (Princeton University)
Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025
Future of Higher Education
Sunday, Jan. 05, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)
Presiding: Francisca Antman (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Panelists: Benjamin E. Hermalin (University of California-Berkeley), Lara Shore-Sheppard (Williams College), Jacob L. Vigdor (University of Washington), Zachary Bleemer (Princeton University)
Ben Bernanke’s Contributions to Economics
Sunday, Jan. 05, 2025 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (PST)
Presiding: Christina Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
Panelists: Mark Gertler (New York University), Emi Nakamura (University of California-Berkeley), Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University), Mary C. Daly (President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics We Should All Believe In?
Sunday, Jan. 05, 2025 13:00 PM - 15:00 PM (PST)
Presiding: Ayşegül Şahin (Princeton University)
Authors: Adrien Auclert (Stanford University) (presenting), Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University) (presenting), Bart Hobijn (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) (presenting), Ayse Okten Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California) (presenting), Jonas Fisher (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Alessandro T. Villa (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Immigration, Networks, and Integration: Evidence from the U.S. and Europe
Sunday, Jan. 05, 2025 13:00 PM - 15:00 PM (PST)
Presiding: Katherine Eriksson (University of California-Davis)
Authors: Katherine Eriksson (University of California-Davis) (presenting), Francesco Cinnirella (University of Bergamo), Philipp Ager (University of Mannheim), Viktor Malein (Lund University), Maria Esther Caballero (American University), Giuseppe Ippedico (University of Nottingham) (presenting), Giovanni Peri (University of California-Davis), Cevat Giray Aksoy (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and King\'s College London), Gaurav Khanna (University of California-San Diego), Victoria Marino (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Semih Tumen (Amazon, TED University, and IZA) (presenting), Alexander Yarkin (Brown University and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research) (presenting)
Discussants: Santiago Pérez (University of California-Davis), Reem Zaiour (Vanderbilt University), José R. Bucheli (University of Texas-El Paso)
