November 22, 2016

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

The AEA Annual Meeting registration discount deadline is December 3, 2016. The fee for registration will then increase from $55 to $115. To view the preliminary program and to register click on https://www.aeaweb.org/conference. Follow us on Twitter @ASSAMeeting. Twitter will announce program updates and other developments before and during the meetings.

The 2017 ASSA Meeting Preliminary Program is at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/. Find out now what to look forward to at the Meetings.

AEA's Continuing Education Program will be held on January 8-10, 2017 at the Loews, Chicago, immediately after the annual meeting. The topics are:

• Cross-Section Econometrics (Alberto Abadie and Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Christopher Walters, University of California, Berkeley)
• Behavorial Finance (Nicholas Barberis, Yale University, and Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley)
• Industrial Organization (Daniel Ackerberg, University of Michigan, Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania, and Ariel Pakes, Harvard University)

Individuals attending the Continuing Education Program should book their ASSA reservation at the Loews, Chicago. See: https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/cont-ed. Send questions to assa@vanderbilt.edu or call us at 615-322-3509.

strong>AEA is hosting a breakfast and discussion for LGBT economists and allies facilitated by Lee Badgett (U-Mass Amherst) and Christopher S. Carpenter (Vanderbilt) at the ASSA meetings on Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 7-8 am in the Comiskey Room, West Tower, Bronze Level, of the Hyatt Regency. Topics will include: 1) best practices for employers in recruiting LGBT economists; 2) navigating the job market as an LGBT economist; and 3) creating a newsletter for LGBT economists. All AEA meeting registrants are invited, including PhD students and economists working in any type of setting (academic, government, think tank, private sector, etc.). Economists interested in these issues who are unable to attend the breakfast can contact Badgett (lbadgett@econs.umass.edu) or Carpenter (christopher.s.carpenter@vanderbilt.edu) directly for more information.

Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) invites your participation in CSWEP's events at the 2017 AEA/ASSA Meetings in Chicago, including two Mentoring Breakfasts for Junior Economists, a Peer Mentoring Breakfast for Mid-Career Economists, and the CSWEP Annual Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony. Pre-registration for all events is required. CSWEP is also pleased to announce that the AEA will provide a room for nursing mothers at ASSA. Visit https://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/annual_meeting.php.

Plan your experience at the ASSA. Get your smartphones and tablets ready for the 2017 ASSA event! We will be offering an enhanced mobile app for you to customize your meeting experience. The all-in-one app allows you to create your schedule in advance, locate your meeting room on a map, browse paper abstracts, take session notes, link your schedule across devices, and more. The 2017 ASSA app launches December 1 and will be accessible at the AEA website or from any preferred app store location.

AEA Summer Training Program & Scholarship Program increases diversity by preparing talented undergraduates for doctoral programs in Economics and related disciplines. Students receive 8 weeks of intensive training in microeconomics, mathematics, and research methods with leading faculty hosted at Michigan State University in collaboration with Western Michigan University. Students have the opportunity to earn up to 12 college credits. For more information and to apply, go to https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/aeasp. Anticipated application deadline: January 31, 2017.

Nominations for American Economic Journals' Best Paper Prizes. Suggestions for the annual \"Best Paper\" prizes for the AEA's four American Economic Journals can be made electronically at https://www.aeaweb.org/aej/bestpapernominations.php, starting December 1, 2016. The awards will be announced in April 2017, selected from articles published in the 2014 through 2016 volumes of each AEJ. To learn more about these awards or to see past winners go to https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/aej-best-papers. Deadline is February 15, 2017.

New AEA Member Benefit. Beginning January 1, 2017, all AEA members will receive complimentary access to back issues of AEA journals on JSTOR. JSTOR provides electronic copies of back issues of the AER, JEL, JEP, and the four American Economic Journals. Look for access information in January!