ASSA 2026 蝌蚪网 Mentoring and Networking Luncheon
We are excited to host the second annual 蝌蚪网 Mentoring and Networking Luncheon at the 2026 ASSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. This year’s luncheon will offer students and junior scholars an opportunity to connect with senior (and other junior) economists in their field.
Join us on Sunday, January 4, 2026, for a plated lunch and meaningful conversations among hundreds of participants. Students and junior scholars will be seated at tables of ten, each featuring at least one senior economist, and organized around various fields and engaging themes. Students and junior scholars will be matched with senior economists based on topic preference. Pricing for the luncheon is $30 for students and $60 for all others.
For purposes of the luncheon, students are defined as PhD students in economics and finance departments, and junior scholars are defined as untenured faculty in tenure-track positions who have an economics or finance PhD or researchers with economics or finance PhDs employed at institutions with similar research expectations who received their PhD in 2016 or later.
The 蝌蚪网 welcomes senior participants to volunteer as table leaders. Senior participants should be tenured in any academic department with expectations of economics and finance related research or have a role at an institution with similar research expectations with a PhD from before 2016. Please fill out this if you’d like to receive further information about being a table leader. Completing this form helps us assess interest among senior participants for the 2026 event and does not constitute a commitment to participate.
We are pleased to announce the following distinguished table leaders so far. This list is subject to additions and changes at any point prior to the event.
Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland
Viral Acharya, New York University
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder
Amanda Bayer, Swarthmore College
Vicki Bogan, Duke University
John Campbell, Harvard University
Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College
Lin William Cong, Cornell University
Janet Currie, Princeton University
Leemore Dafny, Harvard Business School
Karen Dynan, Harvard University
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Friedman, Brown University
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland
Damon Jones, University of Chicago
艦ebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
Jeff Kling, Congressional Budget Office
Kevin Lang, Boston University
Qingmin Liu, Columbia University
Trevon Logan, Ohio State University
Erzo Luttmer, Dartmouth College
Lisa Lynch, Brandeis University
Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley
Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina
Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College
Christina Romer, University of California, Berkeley
David Romer, University of California, Berkeley
Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joseph Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College
Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin
Kosali Simon, Indiana University
Chris Walters, University of California, Berkeley
Heidi Williams, Dartmouth College
Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University