New This Year at ASSA 2025: AEA Mentoring and Networking Luncheon
The AEA Mentoring and Networking Luncheon is designed to connect economists at all stages of their careers, including graduate students, with senior-level economists in their fields. Enjoy lunch while engaging in meaningful conversations. Attendees will be seated at tables of ten, each with at least one senior-level economist, organized around various topics.
AEA Mentoring and Networking Luncheon: Topics
- Asset Pricing
- Behavioral and Cognitive Economics
- Children and Families
- Corporate Finance
- Development Economics
- Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence
- Econometrics
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Economic History
- Economics of Crime and Criminal Justice
- Economics of Education
- Economics of Health
- Economics of Innovation and Science
- Economics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
- Entrepreneurship, Management, and Organizations
- Environmental & Energy Economics; Climate Change
- Gender in the Economy
- Household Finance
- Industrial Organization
- Inequality
- International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics
- International Trade and Investment
- Labor Economics
- Macroeconomics and Economic Fluctuations
- Microeconomic Theory
- Monetary Economics
- Political Economy
- Public Economics
- Urban and Spatial Economics
The distinguished mentors will include:
- Viral Acharya, New York University
- Abi Adams, University of Oxford
- Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles
- Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder
- Pol Antràs, Harvard University
- Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley
- Amanda Bayer, Swarthmore College
- Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University
- Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
- John Campbell, Harvard University
- Steve Cicala, Tufts University
- Janet Currie, Princeton University
- Lucas Davis, University of California, Berkeley
- Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- John Friedman, Brown University
- Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
- Edward Glaeser, Harvard University
- Rema Hanna, Harvard University
- Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
- John Horton, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Guido Imbens, Stanford University
- Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
- Urban Jermann, University of Pennsylvania
- Wei Jiang, Emory University
- Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University
- Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
- Amanda Kowalski, University of Michiga
- Kory Kroft, University of Toronto
- Kevin Lang, Boston University
- John List, University of Chicago
- Qingmin Liu, Columbia University
- Michelle Lowry, Drexel University
- Erzo Luttmer, Dartmouth College
- Lisa Lynch, Brandeis University
- Naday Malenko, Boston College
- Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley
- Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia
- Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
- Christina Romer, University of California, Berkeley
- David H. Romer, University of California, Berkeley
- Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Heather Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ayşegül Şahin, Princeton University
- Andres Santos, University of California, Los Angeles
- Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lara Shore-Sheppard, Willaims College
- Melvin Stephens, University of Michigan
- Ludwig Straub, Harvard University
- Chris Walters, University of California, Berkeley
Pricing for the luncheon is $30 for students and $60 for all others. Register now! If you have already registered for the conference but haven’t signed up for the luncheon yet, log into your conference account, click the 'Make Changes' button, and select the AEA Mentoring and Networking Luncheon. If you have any issues signing up, please email assa@vanderbilt.edu for assistance.