ASSA 2025 Live-Streamed Sessions

Live Streams

Who Cares? Care, Care Work, and Family Leave Policies

Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)

Status: Livecast complete
Who Cares? Care, Care Work, and Family Leave Policies
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
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. 3, 2025 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (PST)

Status: Livecast complete
AI and the Future of Work
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
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. 3, 2025 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM (PST)

Status: Livecast complete
AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon - Fee Event
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 5&6
Presiding: Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
Speaker: Emi Nakamura, University of California-Berkeley
Topic: Being Rational about Rational Expectations

Frontiers for Analysis of Experiments and Clinical Trials

Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM (PST)

Status: Livecast complete
Frontiers for Analysis of Experiments and Clinical Trials
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
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. 3, 2025 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM (PST)

Status: Livecast complete
AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 5&6
Speaker: Sendhil Mullainathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Topic: Economics in the Age of Algorithms

Inflation and the Macroeconomy

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)

Status: Livecast complete
Inflation and the Macroeconomy
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
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. 4, 2025 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (PST)

Status: Livecast complete
Remembering Robert Solow, 1924-2023
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
Moderator: James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Panelists: George Akerlof (Georgetown University), Stacey Tevlin (Federal Reserve Board)

Advice on Publishing in Economics and Science Journals

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (PST)

Status: Now playing
Advice on Publishing in Economics and Science Journals
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
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. 4, 2025 4:40 PM - 6:00 PM (PST)

Status: Not yet started
AEA Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 5&6
Presiding: Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
Speaker: Janet Currie, Princeton University
Topic: Investing in Children to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis

Future of Higher Education

Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)

Status: Not yet started
Future of Higher Education
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
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. 5, 2025 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (PST)

Status: Not yet started
Ben Bernanke’s Contributions to Economics
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
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. 5, 2025 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PST)

Status: Not yet started
Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics We Should All Believe In?
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4
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)