LERA@ASSA 2026
January 3-5, 2026, Philadelphia, PA
in conjunction with ASSA/AEA

Program Schedule

The 2026 LERA@ASSA Program Committee brings you 18 sessions on leading topics addressing Labor and Employment Relations Issues, which you are invited to attend.

Registration will open Tuesday, September 9 on the ASSA/AEA website at https://conf.aeaweb.org.

The early-bird registration deadline is December 3rd.

The most up-to-date information about registration can always be found at the ASSA/AEA Annual Meeting Web page, which you can find here.

ASSA/AEA handles all logistics for this conference. If needed, please contact them here.

Registration | LERA Program | Program Committee | Participant Information | Sponsors

Basic steps to attend conference

Register - https://conf.aeaweb.org/index.php

Registration opens September 9, 2025! Regular early registration is $240 before December 3, and student early registration is $70. After December 3, the registration rate increases to $290 and $120.

If you have ever registered for the ASSA meeting, then you have an existing account. Please do not create a new account this year. Instead, log back into your existing account to register for any of this year's meetings. To prepare ahead of time, if you have forgotten your username and/or password, use the Forgot your password option. (Please note that the conference system is separate from the AEA membership system. It is possible that you used the same credentials for both, but they could be different.) All new users should simply visit their website and create a username and password for the first time.
Find general information about the meeting at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/.)
Review the draft program and get more information - You can find information about the LERA sessions online (here).

Housing

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown is the LERA headquarters hotel located at 1201 Market Street, 1200 Filbert St, Philadelphia, PA 19107

PLEASE NOTE: If you want to be certain to stay at the LERA hotel, then you will need to register and obtain your hotel room reservation on the very first day they open their registration on Tuesday. The hotel rooms sell out quickly at the headquarters hotel. As a reminder, LERA will send an email to program participants registration is opened.

Thank you to our 2026 LERA@ASSA sponsors!

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations
Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section
Florida International University, College of Business
MIT Institute for Work and Employment Relations
Michigan State University, School of Human Resources & Labor Relations

LERA Program: http://leraoffice.org/drupalinclude/program_assa.asp

Special Consortium in Honor of Bill Spriggs, Late LERA Past President

This Consortium features a ticketed LERA Luncheon Plenary in conjunction with this event, plus several other program sessions. You can see details here.

LERA Plenaries and Other Events

Saturday 1/3/25 4:45 ‑ 5:45 pm Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Independence Ballroom I & H	Distinguished Plenary Panel Future Directions of Research (no ticket required, only your ASSA badge) Chair: Elena Falcettoni, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Panelists: Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Erica Groshen, Cornell University Darrick Hamilton, AFL-CIO Chief Economist Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania
Saturday 1/3/25 6 ‑ 7 pm Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Independence Ballroom I & H	LERA Welcome Reception (no ticket required, only your ASSA badge, thanks to our University sponsors!) Please join us to meet with your LERA colleagues old and new, and enjoy hors d'oeuvres and cash bar.
Sunday 1/4/25 12:30 ‑ 2:15 pm Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Room TBD	Distinguished Luncheon Plenary (Part of the Spriggs Consortium) Lessons from Bill Spriggs's Contributions to Economics and Economic Policy ($10 ticket required; see here for details) Chair: Abigail Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Panelists: Neel Kashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute Cecilia A. Conrad, Lever for Change and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation William M. Rodgers III, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame
Sunday 1/4/25 6:45 ‑ 9 pm Hotel and Room TBD	Inter-Organizational Social ($25 ticket required; details and tickets here.) AFEE ASE HES IAFEE LERA URPE Social Each individual who registers will get a free drink ticket. There will be hors d'oeuvres and networking with a wider range of individuals at this inter-organizational event. Pick up your free drink ticket by Sunday, 1/4/25 by 5pm at the LERA information desk.

LERA@ASSA 2026 Meeting Program Committee (in conjunction with ASSA/AEA)

Elena Falcettoni, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Chair); Illenin Kondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Co-Chair 1); Lindsey Cameron, University of Pennsylvania (Co-Chair 2); Kihwan Bae, West Virginia University; Kate Bahn, Institute for Women's Policy Research; Alex Bell, Georgia State University; Nick Bunker, Indeed Hiring Lab; Kirsten Cornelson, Western University - Canada; Robynn Joyce Afi Cox, University of California, Riverside; Sam Dodini, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Alejandro Estefan, University of Notre Dame; Cynthia Doniger, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles; Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota; Enrique Lopezlira, University of California, Berkeley; Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley; Peter Norlander, Loyola U Chicago; Gabrielle Pepin, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Davud Rostam-Afschar, University of Mannheim; Todd Sorensen, UC Merced/IZA; Russell Weinstein, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Participant Information - Important!

You will find detailed information here on what you need to do before, during, and after the conference to participate as a chair, presenter, panelist, or discussant on the meeting program. Please visit this page, download and print the information you need.