2025 Allied Social Sciences Association Meeting

The 2025 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting will be held in San Francisco, California on January 3-5, 2025. The annual meeting is an opportunity to build your professional knowledge, collaborate with colleagues, share in research and discussion, and establish connections with peers and mentors.

Registration and exhibits will take place at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. General meeting information is available on the AEA website at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference. The preliminary program is posted at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2025/preliminary. 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 10. When registering, you will be required to acknowledge and accept the AEA Code of Professional Conduct and AEA Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation.

To keep up to date on the meeting, follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @ASSAMeeting.

AEA Annual Meeting Program

The AEA annual meeting program for 2025 is set to offer an exciting and engaging experience. Highlights include the prestigious AEA Distinguished Lecture by Sendhil Mullainathan of the University of Chicago and the AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon featuring Emi Nakamura from the University of California, Berkeley. New additions this year include Lightning Round Sessions and a Recent Developments Series.

We are also introducing a Mentoring and Networking Luncheon designed to connect economists at all career stages, from students to seasoned professionals, with leading experts in their fields. Additionally, poster sessions will feature dedicated times for author discussions, and registrants can once again enjoy free professional headshots in the exhibit hall.

Register by December 3 to benefit from early bird rates. For more information on the various opportunities available, please visit the AEA website. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

AEA Continuing Education Program – Changes for 2025

The AEA Continuing Education Program will be held simultaneously with the 2025 ASSA Annual Meeting as part of the regularly scheduled sessions. The continuing education sessions have been renamed the “AEA Recent Developments Series” and are accessible to all registrants at no additional cost. This series, which will feature eight two-hour sessions scheduled across Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, is designed to help economists at all career stages sustain and enhance their expertise. For more information and to view the topics, visit https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/cont-ed/.

Job Market Interviews

The AEA recommends conducting initial job market interviews virtually, rather than at the ASSA Annual Meeting. We encourage you to make full use of the JOE Network for managing candidate profiles, job listings, and letters, as well as utilizing the application module, which includes a scheduling tool for interviews. The AEA will continue to offer Signaling and the Job Market Scramble. Additionally, the AEA Committee on the Job Market provides regular updates on job market conditions and has released guidance and a timeline for the 2024-25 economics job cycle. For more details and updates, visit AEA Job Market Communications.

2024-25 Minority Job Market Candidates

The Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP) maintains a web page listing of 2024-25 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), Pacific Islander, and other groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the field of economics and would like to be added to this list, please email Jose M. Fernandez at jose.fernandez@louisville.edu.

AEA 2024 Elections

The annual elections are still open for voting. Check your email inbox for a message from aea@intelliscanvotes.com with the subject line “AEA 2024 Elections Now Open for Voting” to ensure you have received your ballot. If you do not see the email in your inbox, check your junk or spam folder as it may have gone there. Adding aea@intelliscanvotes.com to your safe senders list will lessen the chance of the email going to the junk or spam folder. If you cannot locate the email, please contact Intelliscan by email at kwier@intelliscaninc.com or phone at 484-920-8106 for further assistance.

Reminders will be sent throughout the election period, which ends September 30 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Casting your vote or choosing to opt out electronically will prevent further reminders.

AEA Mentoring Program

In the mid-1990s, 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.

Weekly Virtual Seminar on the Economics of LGBTQ+ Populations

The 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. The Fall 2024 series will highlight practice job market talks from LGBTQ+ identified candidates as well as LGBTQ+ economics topics. Anyone is welcome to attend. Stay tuned for updates on the fall schedule and sign up for seminars at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/aealgbtq/virtual-seminars.

AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE)

The fourteenth annual CTREE conference will be held May 28–30, 2025 at the Westin Denver Downtown in Denver, Colorado. 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 Danila Serra of Texas A&M University and Tim Cason of Purdue University. 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. The submission portal and general information are available at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/economic-education/ctree/2025. Send questions about submissions to the CTREE 2025 program chair, Scott Simkins (simkinss@ncat.edu).