ASSA 2023 Webcasts of Select Sessions

Michaela Pagel discussing "Interventions to Close Gender Gaps: What Works and What Can Backfire"

Leto Copeley speaking at the AEA/CSWEP Panel on "Sexual Harassment in the Economics Profession: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward"

Gita Gopinath speaking at the AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon on "New Foundations for International Macro-Policy: Mundell-Fleming 60 years later"

Head Table at the AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon

Former AEA President and 2021 Nobel Laureate David Card speaking at the AEA Nobel Laureate Luncheon

Susan Athey presenting at the session "The Economic Impact of Access to Reproductive Health Services"

Webcasts of select sessions from the Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 6-8, 2023, compliments of the AEA.

Friday, Jan. 6, 2023

 

Interventions to Close Gender Gaps: What Works and What Can Backfire

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)

Presiding: Olga Shurchkov (Wellesley College)
Authors: Belinda Archibong (Columbia University) (presenting), Francis Annan (George State University), Oyebola Okunogbe (World Bank), Ifeatu Oliobi (Columbia University), Stephanie Owen (Colby College) (presenting), Ursina Schaede (University of Zurich) (presenting), Ville Mankki (University of Turku), Mallory Avery (Monash University) (presenting)
Discussants: Julia Seither (University of Rosario), Mary Kaltenberg (Pace University), Tatiana Mocanu (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), Michaela Pagel (Columbia University)
 

Networks in Economics and Finance

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)

Presiding: Lin Peng (CUNY-Baruch College)
Authors: Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University), Suraj Malladi (Cornell University) (presenting), David McAdams (Duke University), Syngjoo Choi (Seoul National University), Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge) (presenting), Frederic Moisan (Emlyon Business School), Francesco D'Acunto (Georgetown University) (presenting), Alberto G. Rossi (Georgetown University), Michael Weber (University of Chicago), David Hirshleifer (University of Southern California), Lin Peng (CUNY-Baruch College and University of Cambridge) (presenting), Qiguang Wang (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Discussants: Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech), Ville Rantala (University of Miami), Harrison Hong (Columbia University), Liyan Yang (University of Toronto)
 

Working from Home: Global Trends and Consequences

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)

Presiding: Johannes Wieland (University of California-San Diego)
Authors: Cevat Giray Aksoy (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) (presenting), Jose Maria Barrero (Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico), Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), Steven J. Davis (University of Chicago), Mathias Dolls (Ifo Institute), Pawel Adrjan (Indeed Hiring Lab and University of Oxford), Gabriele Ciminelli (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) (presenting), Michael Koelle (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), Tara M. Sinclair (George Washington University), Cyrille Schwellnus (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) (presenting), Elisa Guglielminetti (Bank of Italy) (presenting), Michele Loberto (Bank of Italy), Roberta Zizza (Bank of Italy), Giordano Zevi (Bank of Italy), John Mondragon (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), Johannes Wieland (University of California-San Diego) (presenting)
 

AEA/CSWEP Panel on Sexual Harassment in the Economics Profession: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (CST)

Presiding: Judy Chevalier (Yale University and former CSWEP Chair)
Panelists: Christina Romer (AEA President and Chair of the Ethics Committee), Ben Bernanke (former AEA President and former Chair of the AEA Ethics Committee), Leto Copeley (AEA Ombudsperson), Audrey Anderson (Bass, Berry & Sims PLC and Title IX expert), Billy Williams (Senior Vice President for Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion at American Geophysical Union)
 

Big Data to Infer Beliefs, Information and Unobserved Costs

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (CST)

Presiding: Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University)
Authors: Wenting Song (Bank of Canada) (presenting), Nana Addai (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) (presenting), Amanda Rae Heitz (FDIC and Tulane University) (presenting), Christopher Martin (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), Alexander Brenden Ufier (FDIC), Alistai Macaulay (University of Oxford)
Discussants: Kristoffer P. Nimark (Cornell University), Galina Hale (University of California-Santa Cruz), Yiming Ma (Columbia University)
 

Lessons Learned from U.S. Economic Policy Responses to the Pandemic

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (CST)

Presiding: Wendy Edelberg (Brookings Institution) and David Wessel (Brookings Institution)
Panelists: Jason Furman (Harvard University), Louise Sheiner (Brookings Institution), Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard University), Pascal Noel (University of Chicago)
 

AEA/ AFA Joint Luncheon-Fee Event

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  12:30 PM - 2:15 PM (CST)

Presiding: Susan Athey (Stanford University)
Speaker: Gita Gopinath (Harvard University)
 

Gender Inequality and Schools

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)

Presiding: Sandra E. Black (Columbia University) and Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan)
Authors: Lauren Russell (University of Pennsylvania) (presenting), Chuxuan Sun (University of Pennsylvania), Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University) (presenting), Kristy Buzart (Syracuse University), Laura Katherine Gee (Tufts University), Amanda Chuan (Michigan State University) (presenting), Marlène Koffi (University of Toronto) (presenting), Weilong Zhang (University of Cambridge), Matt Marx (Cornell University)
Discussants: Gizem Kosar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Clementine Van Effenterre (University of Toronto), Ina Ganguli (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Betsey Stevenson (University of Michigan)
 

The Economic Implications of the Russian War in Ukraine

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)

Presiding: Jan Svejnar (Columbia University; former advisor to Vaclav Havel, Czechia’s President)
Panelists: Roger Myerson (University of Chicago), Oleg Itskhoki (University of California-Los Angeles), Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR), Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California-Berkeley)
 

Efficient and Effective Course Preparation

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)

Presiding: Wendy Stock (Montana State University)
Panelists: Martha L. Olney (University of California-Berkeley), Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan), Jennifer Imazeki (San Diego State University), Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University)
 

AEA Distinguished Lecture

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023  4:45 PM - 6:00 PM (CST)

Presiding: Susan Athey (Stanford University)
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 
 

Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023

 

Economic Shocks, Crises and Their Consequences

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)

Presiding: Carmen M. Reinhart (Harvard University and World Bank)
Panelists: Kristin Forbes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Robert F. Owen (University of Nantes and University of Iowa), Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), Stephane Schmitt Grohe (Columbia University), Lawrence Summers (Harvard University)
 

Gender in the Economics Profession

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)

Presiding: Kasey Buckles (University of Notre Dame)
Authors: Danila Serra (Texas A&M University) (presenting), Melissa Gentry (Texas A&M University), Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M University), Marcus Biermann (Bielefeld University) (presenting), Haoyu Sheng (Brown University), Amy Handlan (Brown University) (presenting), Marieke Kleemans (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) (presenting), Rebecca Thornton (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Discussants: Serena Canaan (Simon Fraser University), Alicia Modestino (Northeastern University), Joanna Lahey (Texas A&M University), Amanda Bayer (Swarthmore College)
 

Slavery and Beyond

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)

Presiding: Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)
Authors: Moritz Schularick (Sciences Po) (presenting), Ellora Derenoncourt (Princeton University), Moritz Kuhn (University of Bonn), Chi Hyun Kim (University of Bonn), Joachim Voth (University of Zurich) (presenting), Stephen Redding (Princeton University), Stephan Heblich (University of Toronto), Nathan Nunn (Harvard University) (presenting), Alex Albright (Harvard University), James Feigenbaum (Boston University), Jason Long (Wheaton College), Jeremy Cook (Wheaton College), Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton University), Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia) (presenting), Humberto Laudares (Geneva Graduate Institute), Francois Seyler (Laval University) (presenting), Arthur Silve (Laval University), Laura-Thorne Kincaide (Harvard University)
 

How Can Department Chairs Influence Diversity, Equity and Belonging in the Economics Profession?

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (CST)

Presiding: Donna K. Ginther (University of Kansas)
Panelists: Donna Gilleskie (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Trevon Logan (Ohio State University), Linda Hooks (Washington & Lee University), Joshua Rosenbloom (Iowa State University)
 

Race and Family Background as Determinants of Educational Outcomes

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (CST)

Presiding: Francisca Antman (University of Colorado Boulder)
Authors: Sarah Komisarow (Duke University) (presenting), Ezra Karger (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Maria Zhu (Syracuse University) (presenting), Leah Lakdawala (Wake Forest University) (presenting), Prashant Bharadwaj (University of California-San Diego), Naomi Friedman-Sokuler (Bar Ilan University) (presenting), Moshe Justman (Ben Gurion University)
Discussants: Briana Ballis (University of California-Merced), Carycruz Bueno (Wesleyan University), Rebecca Dizon-Ross (University of Chicago), Anita Mukherjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
 

Determinants and Effectiveness of Police Enforcement Behavior

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (CST)

Presiding: Matthew Ross (Northeastern University)
Authors: Roman Rivera (Columbia University) (presenting), CarlyWill Sloan (United States Military Academy West Point) (presenting), Matthew Ross (Northeastern University), Chandon Adger (Texas A&M University), Sofia Amaral (Ifo Institute, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and CESifo) (presenting), Gordon B. Dahl (University of California-San Diego), Victoria Endl-Geyer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Timo Hener (Aarhus University), Helmut Rainer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Jonathan Tebes (University of Notre Dame) (presenting), Jeffrey Fagan (Columbia University)
Discussants: Benjamin Hansen (University of Oregon), Tom Kirchmaier (London School of Economics), John MacDonald (University of Pennsylvania), Emily Owens (University of California-Irvine)
 

AEA Nobel Laureate Luncheon Honoring the 2021 Nobel Laureates

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  12:30 PM - 2:15 PM (CST)

AEA Nobel Laureate Luncheon Honoring the 2021 Nobel Laureates: Joshua Angrist (MIT), David Card (University of California-Berkeley), and Guido Imbens (Stanford University)-Fee Event
Presiding: Susan Athey (Stanford University)
Speakers: Janet Currie (Princeton University), Whitney Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Isaiah Andrews (Harvard University), Cecelia Rouse (Princeton University)
 

Economic Uses and Applications of AI and Big Data

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)

Presiding: Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University)
Authors: Roxana Mihet (Swiss Finance Institute & HEC Lausanne) (presenting), Mehmet Canayaz (Pennsylvania State University), Ilja Kantorovitch (Pompeu Fabra University), Lea Stern (University of Washington) (presenting), Victor Lyonnet (Ohio State University), Jillian Grennan (University of California-Berkeley) (presenting), Allison Luedtke (St. Olaf College) (presenting), Crolina Mattsson (Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science), Frank Takes (Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science), Ian Appel (University of Virginia)
Discussants: Daniel Rock (University of Pennsylvania), Romana Nanda (Imperial College London), Jason Sandvik (Tulane University), Wenhao Li (University of Southern California)
 

New Evidence on the Surprise Surge in Inflation

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)

Presiding: Lena Anayi (Bank of England)
Authors: Jens Hilscher (University of California-Davis), Alon Raviv (Bar Ilan University), Ricardo Reis (London School of Economcs) (presenting), Olivier Coibion (University of Texas-Austin), Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California-Berkeley) (presenting), Michael Weber (University of Chicago), Philip Bunn (Bank of England), Lena Anayi (Bank of England) (presenting), Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), Paul Mizen (University of Nottingham), Greg Thwaites (University of Nottingham), Rüdiger Bachmann (University of Notre Dame) (presenting), Benjamin Born (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management), Olga Goldfayn-Frank (Deutsche Bundesbank), Georgi Kocharkov (Deutsche Bundesbank), Ralph Luetticke (University College London), Bernardo Candia (University of California-Berkeley), Ivan Yotzov (Bank of England)
 

The Economic Impact of Access to Reproductive Health Services

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)

Presiding: Martha Bailey (University of California-Los Angeles)
Authors: Joanna Lahey (Texas A&M University) (presenting), Marianne Wanamaker (University of Tennessee), Kelly Jones (American University) (presenting), Mayra Pineda-Torres (Georgia Institute of Technology), Martha Bailey (University of California-Los Angeles) (presenting), Vanessa Lang (University of Michigan), Iris Vrioni (University of Michigan), Lea Bart (University of Michigan), Alexa Prettyman (University of California-Los Angeles), Daniel Eisenberg (University of California-Los Angeles), Paula Fomby (University of Michigan), Jennifer Barber (Indiana University), Vanessa Dalton (University of Michigan), Susan Athey (Stanford University) (presenting), Katy Bergstrom (Tulane University), Vitor Hadad (Stanford University), Julian C. Jamison (University of Exeter), Berk Özler (World Bank), Luca Parisotto (World Bank), Julius Dohbit Sama (University of Yaoundé I)
 

AEA Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address

 Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023  4:40 PM - 6:00 PM (CST)

Presiding: Susan Athey (Stanford University)
Speaker: Christina Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
 
 

Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023

 

Impacts of Curriculum, College, and Vocational Training on Educational Outcomes

 Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)

Presiding: Francisca Antman (University of Colorado Boulder)
Authors: Jennifer Seager (George Washington University) (presenting), Sarah Baird (George Washington University), T.M. Asaduzzaman (World Bank), Shwetlena Sabarwal (World Bank), Amita Vyas (George Washington University), Xiaoxiao Li (Villanova University) (presenting), Sebastian Linde (Medical College of Wisconsin), Hajime Shimao (McGill University), Alina Malkova (Florida Institute of Technology) (presenting), Fulya Ersoy (Loyola Marymount University) (presenting), Graham Beattie (Loyola Marymount University)
Discussants: Bryce Millet Steinberg (Brown University), Celeste K. Carruthers (University of Tennessee), Tisha Emerson (Baylor University), Laura Ahlstrom (Oklahoma State University)
 

Bosses, Mentors, and Careers

 Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (CST)

Presiding: Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University)
Authors: Jason Sandvik (Tulane University), Richard Saouma (Michigan State University), Nathan Seegert (University of Utah), Christopher Stanton (Harvard University) (presenting), Ingrid Haegele (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) (presenting), Alan Benson (University of Minnesota) (presenting), Danielle Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER), Kelly Shue (Yale University), Benjamin Anderson (Colgate University), Wayne A. Grove (Le Moyne College) (presenting)
Discussants: Wayne A. Grove (Le Moyne College), Alan Benson (University of Minnesota), Christopher Stanton (Harvard University), Ingrid Haegele (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
 
 

China and U.S. In the International Monetary System

 Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023  1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (CST)

Presiding: Carmen M. Reinhart (Harvard University and World Bank)
Authors: Amanda Dos Santos (Columbia University), Christopher Clayton (Yale University) (presenting), Matteo Maggiori (Stanford University), Jesse Schreger (Columbia University), Jason Choi (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Rishabh Kirpalani (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Diego Perez (New York University) (presenting), Zhiguo He (University of Chicago) (presenting), Yuehan Wang (Central University of Finance and Economics), Xiaoquan Zhu (University of International Business and Economics), Sebastian Horn (Kiel Institute), Carmen M. Reinhart (Harvard University and World Bank) (presenting), Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute), Brad Parks (College of William & Mary)
Discussants: Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics), Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), Antonio Coppola (Stanford University), Wenxin Du (University of Chicago)