SI 2018 Research on Income and Wealth

Katharine G. Abraham, Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, Carol A. Corrado, and Charles R. Hulten, Organizers

July 16-17, 2018

Charles Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 16
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Driving the Gig Economy (slides)
Discussant: Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 am

The Evolving U.S. Occupational Structure (slides)
Discussant: Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Measuring the Effects of Firm Uncertainty on Economic Activity: New Evidence from One Million Documents
11:20 am

The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data
11:40 am

Aggregate Labor Market Fluidity
12:00 n

Estimating Unequal Gains across U.S. Consumers with Supplier Trade Data
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

More Than They Realize: The Income of the Wealthy (slides)
Discussant: John Sabelhaus, The Brookings Institution
2:15 pm

The Nature of Household Labor Income Risk
Discussant: Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

What Are the Price Effects of Trade? Evidence from the U.S. and Implications for Quantitative Trade Models
Discussant: Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 17
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning Joint with Macro-Productivity
9:00 am

The Missing Profits of Nations (slides)
Discussant: Mihir A. Desai, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 am

Accounting for Factorless Income
Discussant: Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Credit Supply and Productivity Growth
Discussant: Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
11:45 am

Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects (slides)
Discussant: Scott R. Baker, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

An Innovative Approach for Estimating Input to Industry Price Indexes (slides)
1:50 pm

A New Vehicles Transaction Price Index: Offsetting the Effects of Price Discrimination and Product Cycle Bias with a Year-Over-Year Index (slides)
2:10 pm
Break
2:30 pm

Measuring Aggregate Housing Wealth: New Insights from an Automated Valuation Model (slides)
Discussant: Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
3:15 pm

Are Medical Care Prices Still Declining? A Systematic Examination of Quality-Adjusted Price Index Alternatives for Medical Care (slides)
Discussant: David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
5:15 pm
Reception at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Grand Ballroom Foyer)