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2026 AEA Recent Developments Lectures

Webcasts of the 2026 AEA Recent Development Lectures, January 3-5, 2026, compliments of the AEA:

Friday, January 3, 2026

Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility in High-Income Countries

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Speaker: Melissa Kearney (University of Notre Dame)
 
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Recent Developments in AI and the Labor Market

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026   10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)

Speaker: Danielle Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 
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Recent Developments in Welfare Analysis

Friday, Jan. 3, 2026   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (EST)

Speakers: Nathan Hendren (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ben Sprung-Keyser (University of Pennsylvania)
 
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Saturday, January 4, 2026

Recent Developments in the Economics of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2026   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Speaker: Eric Budish (University of Chicago)
 
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Recent Developments in the Political Economy of Elections and Democracy

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2026   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Speaker: Vincent Pons (Harvard Business School)
 
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Recent Developments in Working with Network Data

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2026   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (EST)

Speaker: Bryan S. Graham (University of California-Berkeley)
 
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Sunday, January 5, 2026

Recent Developments in Causal Inference with Macro Data

Sunday, Jan. 5, 2026   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Speaker: Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (Princeton University)
 
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Recent Developments in Language Models for Economics

Sunday, Jan. 5, 2026   10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)

Speaker: Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich)
 
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