CRIW Conference on Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
Organized by Susanto Basu, Lucy P. Eldridge, John C. Haltiwanger, and Erich H. Strassner
Supported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis
March 17-18, 2022
Washington, DC and on Zoom
Thursday, March 17
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Welcome
9:05 am

Digital Concrete: Productivity in Infrastructure Construction (slides)

Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge
Rehema Msulwa, University of Cambridge

Discussant:
Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales
9:55 am

The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the U.S. Construction Sector

Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Wulong Gu, Statistics Canada
10:45 am
Break
11:05 am

An Occupation and Asset Driven Approach to Capital Utilisation Adjustment in Productivity Statistics (slides)

Kyle Jones, Office for National Statistics
Josh Martin, King's College London

Discussant:
Paul Schreyer, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
11:55 am
Lunch

Speaker: Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
1:25 pm

Data, Digitization, and Productivity (slides)

Carol Corrado, Georgetown University
Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College London
Massi Iommi, Italian Statistical Institute
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, University LUISS Guido Carli

Discussant:
Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER
2:15 pm

Valuing the U.S. Data Economy using Machine Learning and Online Job Postings (slides)

José B. Santiago Calderón, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Dylan G. Rassier, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Discussant:
Eleanor W. Dillon, Microsoft Research
3:05 pm
Break
3:25 pm

Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion (slides)

G. Jacob Blackwood, Amherst College
Cindy Cunningham, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Matthew Dey, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Lucia Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Cheryl Grim, U.S. Census Bureau
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Rachel L. Nesbit, RAND Corporation
Sabrina Pabilonia, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jay Stewart, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Cody Tuttle, University of Texas at Austin
Zoltan Wolf, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant:
Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
4:15 pm
Member Meeting, Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
Friday, March 18
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome
8:35 am

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Gary W. Anderson, National Science Foundation
David N. Beede, U.S. Census Bureau
Cathy Buffington, U.S. Census Bureau (retired)
Eric E. Childress, George Mason University
Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau
Lucia S. Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Nathan Goldschlag, Economic Innovation Group
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Zachary Kroff, U.S. Census Bureau
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State

Discussant:
Chiara Criscuolo, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
9:25 am

Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition



Slides
Tania Babina, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Anastassia Fedyk, University of California, Berkeley
Alex X. He, University of Maryland, College Park
James Hodson, AI for Good

Discussant:
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and NBER
10:15 am
Break
10:35 am

Historical Geography of the Semiconductor Industry

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Adrian Hamins-Puertolas, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Molly Harnish, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant:
Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Independent Consultant
11:25 am

TFP Accounting with Secondary Production

Jon Samuels, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Discussant:
John Fernald, INSEAD
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm

Similarities and Differences in the Adoption of General Purpose Technologies

Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER

Discussant:
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
2:05 pm
Break
2:25 pm
Panel Discussion: Technology, Productivity and Policy
Moderator: Stephanie Aaronson, Brookings Institution
Panelists: Karen Dynan, Harvard University
Janice Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER
Susan Helper, CEA and NBER
Paul Lengermann, Federal Reserve Board
3:55 pm
Closing