Beginning in 2025, the AEA continuing education sessions will be held as part of the ASSA Annual Meeting at no additional charge to conference attendees. The new "AEA Recent Developments Series" is designed to help economists at all career stages sustain and enhance their expertise. Register now to take advantage of these eight two-hour sessions, presented by leading scholars and tailored to explore the latest research across different fields of economics. 

Friday, January 3, 2025

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.  Recent Developments in Experimental Economics and Field Experiments
Speaker: John List, University of Chicago

10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Recent Developments in Research on Cities, Housing, and Spatial Sorting
Speakers: Rebecca Diamond and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. The Future of Working from Home (AEA Recent Developments Lecture)
Speaker: Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University

Saturday, January 4, 2025

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Recent Developments in the Estimation of Causal Effects with Panel Data
Speaker: Guido Imbens, Stanford University

10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Recent Developments in Macro Labor
Speaker: Ayşegül Şahin, University of Texas-Austin 

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Recent Developments in Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Agents
Speaker: Ludwig Straub, Harvard University

Sunday, January 5, 2025

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Recent Developments in Econometrics
Speaker: Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Recent Developments in Research on Gender, Violence, and Harassment
Speaker: Abigail Adams-Prassl, Oxford University

The ASSA Annual Meeting will be held January 3–5, 2025, in San Francisco, CA. Registration is open. For more details about these sessions, check out the preliminary program.