SI 2020 Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Organized by Katharine G. Abraham, Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Carol A. Corrado
Supported by Statistics Canada, Statistics of Income/Internal Revenue Service, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Census Bureau
July 13-14, 2020
on Zoom.us
Monday, July 13
Meeting Format: 20 minutes for the presenter, 10 minutes for the discussant and 10 minutes for general discussion
Understanding the Intertemporal Behavior of Wages
Session Chair: Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
10:00 am

Measurement of Nominal Wages and Payroll Schedules in Administrative Earnings Data (slides)

Seth Murray, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant:
Cynthia Doniger, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
10:40 am

Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States during and after the Global Financial Crisis (slides)

Bruce Fallick, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Daniel Villar Vallenas, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
William Wascher, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant:
Erika McEntarfer, Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:20 am

Reconciling Trends in Male Earnings Volatility: Findings from a Group Project of Six Data Sets (slides)

Robert A. Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

Discussant:
Joseph Altonji, Yale University and NBER (slides)
12:00 pm
Break
Intangible Capital and Factor Shares
Session Chair: Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER
1:00 pm

Measuring Intangible Capital with Market Prices (slides)

Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Ryan H. Peters, Tulane University
Sean Wang, Southern Methodist University

Discussant:
Andrea L. Eisfeldt, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
1:40 pm

Knowledge Capital and U.S. State-level Differences in Labor Productivity (slides)

Sabrina Pabilonia, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Susan Fleck, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Discussant:
David N. Weil, Brown University and NBER
2:20 pm

Revisiting the Global Decline of the (Non-Housing) Labor Share (slides)

Germán Gutiérrez, University of Washington
Sophie Piton, Bank of England

Discussant:
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
3:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 14
Issues Related to the Measurement of Inequality
Session Chair: Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
10:00 am

Social Security and Trends in Inequality (slides)

Sylvain Catherine, University of Pennsylvania
Max Miller, Harvard University
Natasha Sarin, Yale University

Discussant:
N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University and NBER
10:40 am

Learning about Homelessness Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data (slides)

Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Angela Wyse, Dartmouth College
Alexa Grunwaldt, University of Chicago
Carla Medalia, U.S. Census Bureau
Derek Wu, University of Virginia

Discussant:
Hilary W. Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:20 am

Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US (slides)

David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Munseob Lee, University of California, San Diego

Discussant:
Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen
12:00 pm
Break
Issues in the Construction of Price Indexes
Session Chair: Carol Corrado, The Conference Board
1:00 pm

Cost-of-Living Indexes During a Stay-in-Place Order (slides)

Rachel Soloveichik, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Discussant:
Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales (slides)
1:40 pm

Revisiting Taste Change in Cost-of-Living Measurement (slides)

Robert Martin, Arizona State University

Discussant:
Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
2:20 pm

Residential Property Price Indexes: Spatial Coordinates versus Neighbourhood Dummy Variables (slides)

W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER
Chihiro Shimizu, Hitotsubashi University

Discussant:
Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Independent Consultant
3:00 pm
Adjourn