Call for Submissions for the ASSA Annual Meeting
The Committee on Economic Statistics sponsors sessions every year at the ASSA Annual Meeting.
Committee on Economic Statistics (蝌蚪网Stat) will sponsor three sessions on economic measurement at the 2026 ASSA Annual Meeting. The Committee solicits both individual papers and proposals for sessions of three or four papers, with preference given to full session proposals. The Committee is interested in receiving submissions in any area of economic data and statistics. One of the three sessions organized by the Committee will be published in the 蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings.
Abstracts are due by April 1, to Karen Dynan, Chair, Committee on Economic Statistics, at aeastat@aeapubs.org. Submissions should be PDF files and include name, institutional affiliation, and email address of all participants. For more information or a list of papers selected for past 蝌蚪网Stat sponsored sessions, see links below.
蝌蚪网Stat Sessions at the upcoming 2026 ASSA Meetings, Philadelphia, January 3-5
New Developments in Economic Statistics
Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)
Philadelphia Convention Center
Chair: Karen Dynan, Harvard University
Measuring the Early 2020s Immigration Surge
Wendy Edelberg, Brookings Institution
Tara Watson, Brookings Institution
Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Measuring Work from Home
Shelby R. Buckman, Stanford University
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
Jose Maria Barrero, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Steven J. Davis, Hoover Institution
Manufacturing Services in NETS: What Do We Know?
Jane Dokko, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
U.S. State-Level Business Cycles Since the Civil War
Chang (Charles) Liu, National University of Singapore
Joseph Hoon, National University of Singapore
Karsten Mueller, National University of Singapore
Zhongxi Zheng, National University of Singapore
Discussant(s)
Kristin Butcher, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Veronika Penciakova, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Jeremy Piger, University of Oregon
Measuring Inflation: It’s All About Minding Your P’s and Q’s
Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
Philadelphia Convention Center
Chair: Carol Corrado, Georgetown University
Change in Average Prices: Inflation, Quality Change or Market Frictions?
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland
Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
R. Benjamin Rodriguez, University of Maryland
Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan
Do Price Deflators for High-Tech Goods Overstate Quality Change?
Ana Aizcorbe, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Daniel Ripperger-Suhler, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Why Households Hate Grocery Inflation: Measuring and Interpreting Inflation Heterogeneity
Kelsey O'Flaherty, University of Michigan
Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation
Michael Navarrete, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and NBER
Seula Kim, Pennsylvania State University and IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Discussant(s)
David M. Byrne, Federal Reserve Board
Louise Sheiner, Brookings Institution
What Drives Consumer Expectations about the Economy?
Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Moderator: Ben Casselman, New York Times
Panelist(s)
Joanne Hsu, University of Michigan
Topic: University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California-Berkeley
Topic: Lived experiences and inflation expectations
Ben Harris, Brookings Institution
Topic: How consumers' views of the economy compare to economic statistics
Gizem Kosar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Topic: New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations
Jason Furman, Harvard University
Topic: Insights to date & future research needs
蝌蚪网Stat Sessions at Past ASSA Annual Meetings