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AEASTAT: 2026 Annual Meeting

Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics

 

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