SI 2020 Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

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

July 13-14, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

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)
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)
Discussant: Erika McEntarfer, Stanford University
11:20 am

Reconciling Trends in Male Earnings Volatility: Findings from a Group Project of Six Data Sets (slides)
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)
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)
Discussant: David N. Weil, Brown University and NBER
2:20 pm

Revisiting the Global Decline of the (Non-Housing) Labor Share (slides)
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)
Discussant: N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University and NBER
10:40 am

Learning about Homelessness Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data (slides)
Discussant: Hilary W. Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:20 am

Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US (slides)
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)
Discussant: Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales (slides)
1:40 pm

Revisiting Taste Change in Cost-of-Living Measurement (slides)
Discussant: Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
2:20 pm

Residential Property Price Indexes: Spatial Coordinates versus Neighbourhood Dummy Variables (slides)
Discussant: Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Independent Consultant
3:00 pm
Adjourn