This series will be available to all registrants at the 2026 ASSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, and will feature eight two-hour sessions scheduled across Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. 

Saturday, January 3

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.  Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility in High-Income Countries
Speaker: Melissa Kearney, University of Notre Dame

10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  Recent Developments in AI and the Labor Market
Speaker: Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.  Recent Developments in Welfare Analysis
Speakers: Nathan Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ben Sprung-Keyser, University of Pennsylvania

Sunday, January 4

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.  Recent Developments in the Economics of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
Speaker: Eric Budish, University of Chicago

10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  Recent Developments in the Political Economy of Elections and Democracy
Speaker: Vincent Pons, Harvard Business School

2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.  Recent Developments in Working with Network Data
Speaker: Bryan Graham, University of California-Berkeley

Monday, January 5

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.  Recent Developments in Causal Inference with Macro Data
Speaker: Mikkel Plagborg-Møller, Princeton University

10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  Recent Developments in Language Models for Economics
Speaker: Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich

 


Previous Years

2025 Recent Developments Lectures

Recordings from past Continuing Education programs are availlable below.

2024 Continuing Education Webcasts
2023 Continuing Education Webcasts
2022 Continuing Education Webcasts
2021 Continuing Education Webcasts
2020 Continuing Education Webcasts
2019 Continuing Education Webcasts
2018 Continuing Education Webcasts
2017 Continuing Education Webcasts
2016 Continuing Education Webcasts
2015 Continuing Education Webcasts
2014 Continuing Education Webcasts
2013 Continuing Education Webcasts
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2011 Continuing Education Webcasts
2010 Continuing Education Webcasts
2009 Continuing Education Webcasts