Upcoming Deadlines
December 2, 2024
What: |
AAEA Early Career Professionals Workshop: Supporting Scholars to Thrive in Applied Economics |
Where: | University of California, Davis campus |
When: | December 13-15, 2024 |
Who: |
Open to pre-tenure or equivalent career stage applied economists with a PhD currently working in US or Canadian universities or organizations who have seven or fewer year of work experience post-PhD (not including time for parental leave, or similar) |
Why: |
The goal of this workshop is to help early career AAEA members thrive—building fulfilling careers as applied economists and satisfying lives as whole humans |
Learn more about the workshop:
https://www.aaea.org/meetings/professional-workshops/upcoming-professional-workshops/2024-aaea-early-career-professionals-workshop
December 2, 2024
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. We had a wonderful turn out of 1380 with many meet ups and as always, great conversations.
We hope you will join us again next year for the 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver, CO!
Daniel M. O'Brien, Kansas State University |
“Prices will be low during the harvest season. More crop reports are ahead, but the mid-September outlooks showed “strong record yields” of 183 bushels to the acre for United States corn. I don’t think we have any argument that we have a large crop. it’s just a matter of how large. The numbers the market is trading on right now are subject to change. Something drastic could raise hopes.”
In my first presidential column, I thought I would spend some time talking about how we choose our meeting locations. In my time serving on the board, I've participated in many discussions about where the AAEA should hold our Annual Meetings. An important thing to realize is that our meetings are booked 5-years out. Last year, we signed a contract with the Marriott Marquis in Washington D.C. for our 2029 (Washington, DC) and are sending out the RFP for the 2030 meetings this week. This long planning horizon makes it challenging to make changes in the short run.
So, how does the Board go about choosing a location for the meetings? The first step is when the AAEA staff send out a request for bids to cities across the country. Unfortunately, the size of our meetings rules out many seemingly plausible locations. AAEA meetings are large enough that many sites don't have convention hotels with enough meeting rooms to accommodate the large number of simultaneous sessions we need (a minimum of 30, a 10,000 square foot plenary room, and a 10,000 square foot Poster Hall). While splitting the conference across multiple hotels is something we have done in the past, and are open to considering in the future, this typically comes at a higher price. The same also holds true for meetings centered around a convention center.
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