Thursday, March 5
FORMAT: Authors 18 minutes, followed by 2-3 minutes for clarifying questions before next paper. Discussants 5 minutes per paper.
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30 am
Welcome
Session 1, Income and Wealth Mobility
Chair: John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
8:40 am

Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in France over the 20th Century

Bertrand Garbinti, CREST - IP Paris
Frédérique Savignac, Banque de France
9:00 am

Parental Education Mitigates the Rising Transmission of Income between Generations

Marie Connolly, Université du Québec à Montréal
Catherine Haeck, Université du Québec à Montréal
Jean-William P. Laliberté, University of Calgary
9:20 am

Comparable Rank-Based Measures of Intergenerational Educational Mobility (slides)

Sam E. Asher, Imperial College Business School
Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College
Charlie Rafkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:40 am

Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States: A Comparison Based on Administrative Data

Victoria L. Bryant, Internal Revenue Service
Anne-Line Koch Helsø, University of Copenhagen
Pablo Mitnik, University of Michigan

Discussant:
Pirmin Fessler, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
10:30 am
Break
Session 2, Mitigating Inequality
Chair: Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board
10:50 am

The EITC and Intergenerational Income Mobility

Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
11:10 am

Inequality and the Safety Net Throughout the Income Distribution, 1929-1940

James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
Keoka Grayson, Hobart and William Smith College
11:30 am

Geographic Inequality in Social Provision and Redistribution in the U.S. States (slides)

Sarah K. Bruch, University of Delaware
Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York
Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant:
David Johnson, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
12:15 pm
Lunch (Terrace)
Keynote Speaker: James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBERl (slides)
Chair: Barry Johnson, Internal Revenue Service
Session 3, Income Inequality and Administrative Data
Chair: Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
1:30 pm

Tax Evasion by the Wealthy: Measurement and Implications

John Guyton, Internal Revenue Service
Patrick Langetieg, Internal Revenue Service
Daniel Reck, University of Maryland and NBER
Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:50 pm

Presence and Persistence of Poverty in U.S. Tax Data (slides)

Jeff Larrimore, Federal Reserve Board
Jake Mortenson, Joint Committee on Taxation
David Splinter, Joint Committee on Taxation
2:10 pm

The Receipt and Distributional Effects of Transfers and Tax Credits Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (slides)

Patrick Langetieg, Internal Revenue Service
Carla Medalia, U.S. Census Bureau
Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Mark Payne, Internal Revenue Service
Alan Plumley, Internal Revenue Service
Derek Wu, University of Virginia
Grace Finley, Harvard University
2:30 pm

Using Tax Data to Better Capture Top Incomes in Official UK Inequality Statistics

Dominic Webber, UK Office for National Statistics
Richard P. Tonkin, United Nations Statistics Division
Martin Shine

Discussant:
Alexander Yuskavage, Department of the Treasury
3:20 pm
Break
Session 4, Decomposing the Wealth Distribution
Chair: Catherine Haeck, Université du Québec à Montréal
3:40 pm

What Explains the Gender Gap in Wealth? Evidence from Administrative Data

Merike Kukk, Tallinn University of Technology
Jaanika Meriküll, Bank of Estonia
Tairi Rõõm, Bank of Estonia
4:00 pm

Inequality and Mobility over the Past Half Century using Income, Consumption and Wealth (slides)

Jonathan D. Fisher, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
David Johnson, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
4:20 pm

Changing Wealth Accumulation Patterns: Evidence and Determinants

William Gale, Brookings Institution
Benjamin Harris, Brookings Institution
4:40 pm

Structuring the Analysis of Wealth Inequality using the Functions of Wealth: A Class Based Approach

Pirmin Fessler, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Martin Schürz, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Discussant:
Frédérique Savignac, Banque de France
5:30 pm
CRIW Membership Meeting
Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
Friday, March 6
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Session 5, Labor Income and Inequality
Chair: Tairi Rõõm, Bank of Estonia
8:30 am

Rising Between Firm Inequality and Declining Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence of a Changing Job Ladder

John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
James Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau, retired
8:50 am

United States Earnings Dynamics: Inequality, Mobility, and Volatility

John M. Abowd, Cornell University and NBER
Kevin McKinney, U.S. Census Bureau
John Sabelhaus, Brookings Institution
9:10 am

American Exceptionalism in Market Income Inequality: Inequality across Household Types (slides)

Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York
Branko Milanovic, City University of New York
Nathaniel Johnson, City University of New York
9:30 am

Social Security Wealth, Inequality, and Lifecycle Saving

John Sabelhaus, Brookings Institution
Alice Henriques Volz, Federal Reserve Board

Discussant:
Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
10:20 am
Break
Session 6, Wealth Inequality and Administrative Data
Chair: Arthur Kennickell, Stone Center, CUNY Graduate Center
10:35 am

The Concentration of Personal Wealth in Italy: 1995-2016 (slides)

Paolo Acciari, Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance
Facundo Alvaredo, Paris School of Economics
Salvatore Morelli, University of Roma Tre
10:55 am

In It Together? Inequality and the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth in Switzerland

Isabel Z. Martinez, ETH Zurich
11:15 am

On the Distribution of Estates and the Distribution of Wealth: Evidence from the Dead (slides)

Facundo Alvaredo, Paris School of Economics
Yonatan Berman, King's College London
Salvatore Morelli, University of Roma Tre

Discussant:
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
12:00 pm
Pick up boxed Lunch
Session 7, Distributional National Accounts
Chair: Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York
12:10 pm

Distributing Personal Income: Trends Over Time (slides)

Dennis Fixler, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Marina Gindelsky, Bureau of Economic Analysis
David Johnson, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
12:30 pm

Developing Indicators of Inequality and Poverty Consistent with National Accounts

Richard P. Tonkin, United Nations Statistics Division
Sean White, UK Office for National Statistics
Sofiya Stoyanova, UK Office for National Statistics
Aly Youssef, UK Office for National Statistics
Sunny Sidhu, UK Office for National Statistics
Chris S. Payne, UK Office for National Statistics
12:50 pm

The Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States (slides)

Michael Batty, Federal Reserve Board
Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board
Joseph S. Briggs, Goldman Sachs
Sarah Friedman, Federal Reserve Board
Danielle Nemschoff, University of Chicago
Eric Nielsen, Federal Reserve Board
Kamila Sommer, Federal Reserve Board
Alice Henriques Volz, Federal Reserve Board
1:10 pm

Distributional National Accounts: A Macro-Micro Approach to Inequality in Germany

Stefan Bach, DIW Berlin
Charlotte Bartels, DIW Berlin
Theresa Neef, DIW Berlin, EU Tax Observatory

Discussant:
William Gale, Brookings Institution
2:00 pm
Adjourn