Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Janet C. Gornick, Barry Johnson, and Arthur Kennickell, Organizers
Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Cabinet/Judiciary Room, One Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda, MD
| Thursday, March 5 |
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FORMAT: Authors 18 minutes, followed by 2-3 minutes for clarifying questions before next paper. Discussants 5 minutes per paper.
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8:00 am
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Continental Breakfast and Registration
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8:30 am
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Welcome
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Session 1, Income and Wealth Mobility
Chair: John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
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8:40 am
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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in France over the 20th Century
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9:00 am
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Parental Education Mitigates the Rising Transmission of Income between Generations
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9:20 am
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Comparable Rank-Based Measures of Intergenerational Educational Mobility (slides)
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9:40 am
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Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States: A Comparison Based on Administrative Data
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Pirmin Fessler, Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
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10:30 am
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Break
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Session 2, Mitigating Inequality
Chair: Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board
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10:50 am
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The EITC and Intergenerational Income Mobility
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11:10 am
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Inequality and the Safety Net Throughout the Income Distribution, 1929-1940
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11:30 am
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Geographic Inequality in Social Provision and Redistribution in the U.S. States (slides)
| Discussant: |
David Johnson, Georgetown University |
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12:15 pm
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Lunch (Terrace)
Keynote Speaker: James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBERl (slides)
Chair: Barry Johnson, Internal Revenue Service
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Session 3, Income Inequality and Administrative Data
Chair: Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
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1:30 pm
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Tax Evasion by the Wealthy: Measurement and Implications
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1:50 pm
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Presence and Persistence of Poverty in U.S. Tax Data (slides)
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2:10 pm
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The Receipt and Distributional Effects of Transfers and Tax Credits Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (slides)
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2:30 pm
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Using Tax Data to Better Capture Top Incomes in Official UK Inequality Statistics
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Alexander Yuskavage, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
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3:20 pm
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Break
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Session 4, Decomposing the Wealth Distribution
Chair: Catherine Haeck, Université du Québec à Montréal
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3:40 pm
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What Explains the Gender Gap in Wealth? Evidence from Administrative Data
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4:00 pm
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Inequality and Mobility over the Past Half Century using Income, Consumption and Wealth (slides)
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4:20 pm
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Changing Wealth Accumulation Patterns: Evidence and Determinants
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4:40 pm
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Structuring the Analysis of Wealth Inequality using the Functions of Wealth: A Class Based Approach
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Frédérique Savignac, Banque de France |
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5:30 pm
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CRIW Membership Meeting
Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
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| Friday, March 6 |
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8:00 am
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Continental Breakfast
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Session 5, Labor Income and Inequality
Chair: Tairi Rõõm, Bank of Estonia
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8:30 am
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Rising Between Firm Inequality and Declining Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence of a Changing Job Ladder
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8:50 am
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United States Earnings Dynamics: Inequality, Mobility, and Volatility
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9:10 am
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American Exceptionalism in Market Income Inequality: Inequality across Household Types (slides)
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9:30 am
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Social Security Wealth, Inequality, and Lifecycle Saving
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Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER |
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10:20 am
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Break
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Session 6, Wealth Inequality and Administrative Data
Chair: Arthur Kennickell, Stone Center, CUNY Graduate Center
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10:35 am
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The Concentration of Personal Wealth in Italy: 1995-2016 (slides)
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10:55 am
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In It Together? Inequality and the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth in Switzerland
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11:15 am
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On the Distribution of Estates and the Distribution of Wealth: Evidence from the Dead (slides)
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Maggie R. Jones, University of California, Berkeley |
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12:00 pm
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Pick up boxed Lunch
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Session 7, Distributional National Accounts
Chair: Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York
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12:10 pm
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Distributing Personal Income: Trends Over Time (slides)
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12:30 pm
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Developing Indicators of Inequality and Poverty Consistent with National Accounts
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12:50 pm
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The Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States (slides)
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1:10 pm
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Distributional National Accounts: A Macro-Micro Approach to Inequality in Germany
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William Gale, The Brookings Institution |
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2:00 pm
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Adjourn
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