August 28, 2023

To: Members of the American Economic Association
From: Peter L. Rousseau, Secretary-Treasurer
Subject:  Annual Meeting Registration and Other Announcements

The Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association will be held in San Antonio, Texas, on January 5-7, 2024.  The meeting will be in-person. Registration and exhibits will take place in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. General meeting information is available on the AEA website at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference.  Individuals unable to attend in-person will be able to view selected AEA live-streamed sessions for free. Meeting registration and housing open on September 12, 2023. To complete your registration, you will be required to acknowledge and accept the AEA Code of Professional Conduct and AEA Policy on Harassment and Discrimination.

The preliminary program is posted at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2024/preliminary. To keep up to date on the meeting, follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @ASSAMeeting.

The AEA's 2024 Continuing Education Program will be held on January 7-9, 2024, at the Hilton Palacio Del Rio Hotel. Participants can choose from three concurrent programs. Registration and housing open on September 12, 2023. Topics include Development Economics led by Emily Breza of Harvard University and Supreet Kaur of the University of California, Berkeley; Digital Economics and the Economics of Artificial Intelligence led by Avi Goldfarb of the University of Toronto and Catherine Tucker of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Health Economics led by Ben Handel of the University of California, Berkeley, and Matthew Notowidigdo of the University of Chicago. For more information, visit https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/cont-ed/.

Job Market Interviews will occur online for 2024. We hope that you will continue to take advantage of the JOE Network for your candidate profiles, job listings, and letter writing, as well as the application module that includes a tool for scheduling interviews. The AEA will continue to provide Signaling and the Job Market Scramble. The AEA Committee on the Job Market offers periodic updates on conditions in the job market, and has issued guidance and a timeline for the 2023-24 economics job cycle. Visit https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/communications for details and other updates.

2023-24 Minority Job Market Candidates. The Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP) maintains a web page listing of 2023-24 minority job market candidates as a resource for employers. If you identify as American Indian, Alaskan Native, Black (not of Hispanic origin), Hispanic (including persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Central or South American origin), or Pacific Islander and would like to be added to this list, please email Dr. Gary A. Hoover at ghoover@tulane.edu.

Congratulations to AEJ: Economic Policy Editor C. Kirabo Jackson on his appointment as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, DC.  The AEA wishes Professor Jackson success in this new role.  In his absence, Lucas Davis of the University of California, Berkeley, will serve as editor of AEJ: Economic Policy until Professor Jackson returns.  The AEA thanks Professor Davis for stepping up to fulfill this critical role for the journal.

The Annual AEA Officer Elections are still open for voting. If you have not voted and wish to participate, watch your postal mail for a paper ballot or your email for an electronic ballot, and return it before September 30, 2023.

AEA Mentoring Program. In the mid-1990s, the CSMGEP created a Mentoring Program for students accepted or enrolled in a Ph.D. program in economics. Since then, the program has expanded to include new doctorates as well. Students are matched with mentors who see the students through the critical junctures of their graduate programs (including the transition from course work to research) or the early stages of their post-graduate careers. The Mentoring Program also hosts an annual Summer Mentoring Pipeline Conference to which all participants and their mentors are invited. The conference, which is held each year at the AEA Summer Training Program, facilitates contacts among minority students in different schools and at different stages in the pipeline. For more information and to apply to be a mentor or mentee, visit https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/csmgep/mentoring.

The AEA's Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession (CSQIEP) invites you to its weekly virtual seminar on the economics of LGBTQ+ populations. From September 5 through October 24, the series will highlight practice job market talks, and from October 31 onward the series will include LGBTQ+ economics topics. Anyone is welcome to attend. Information on how to sign up for the virtual series and a full schedule can be found on the website at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/aealgbtq/virtual-seminars.

The Thirteenth Annual AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE) will be held on May 29 –31, 2024 at the Lowes Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference is hosted by the AEA Committee on Economic Education (AEA-CEE) in conjunction with the Journal of Economic Education. Plenary talks will be given by Peter Arcidiacono of Duke University and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia.  The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank will co-sponsor the conference and host a dinner and speaker. Submissions will be accepted via the AEA online submission system. Submissions may be of individual papers, complete sessions of three or four papers, posters, workshops, or panels. Submissions of completed sessions are especially encouraged. The submission portal will open September 1, and the submission deadline is December 1, 2023. The submission portal and general information is available at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/economic-education/ctree/2024. Send questions about submissions to William Bosshardt (wbosshar@fau.edu).

Not making a submission this year but willing to serve in another capacity?  Please visit the submission portal to volunteer to chair a session or serve as a discussant.

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