SI 2024 Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

Katharine G. Abraham, Susanto Basu, and David M. Byrne, Organizers

July 15-16, 2024

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 15
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:50 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:00 am

Expanding the Frontier of Economic Statistics Using Big Data: A Case Study of Regional Employment (slides)
Discussant: Leland D. Crane, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
9:40 am

Global Value Chains: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States (slides)
Discussant: Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Financing, Ownership, and Performance: A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database (slides)
11:00 am

High-Growth Firms in the United States: Key Trends and New Data Opportunities (slides)
11:20 am

To Find Relative Earnings Gains After the China Shock, Look Upstream and Outside Manufacturing
11:40 am

The Polarization of Personal Saving
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

The Impact of Biomedical Innovation on U.S. Mortality, 1999-2019: Evidence Partly Based on 286 Million Descriptors of 27 Million PubMed Articles (slides)
Discussant: David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
1:40 pm

Productivity Dispersion and Structural Change in Retail Trade
Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
2:20 pm
Break
2:40 pm

New U.S. Business Establishments: Surging or Stalling?
Discussant: Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
3:20 pm

Declining Business Dynamism in Europe: The Role of Shocks, Market Power, and Technology (slides)
Discussant: John Fernald, INSEAD
4:00 pm
CRIW membership meeting
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 16
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:59 am
Morning joint with Macro Productivity
9:00 am

The Minimum Wage in Firms' Organizations: Productivity Implications
Discussant: Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9:40 am

Job Dynamics with Staffed Labor (slides)
Discussant: Daniela Scur, Cornell University
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

What Do Unions Do? Incentives and Investments
Discussant: Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER
11:20 am

Declining Responsiveness at the Establishment Level: Sources and Productivity Implications (slides)
Discussant: Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
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Distributional Consumer Price Indices
Discussant: David Johnson, Georgetown University
1:40 pm
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Who's Most Exposed to International Shocks? Estimating Differences in Import Price Sensitivity across U.S. Demographic Groups
Discussant: Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Independent Consultant
2:20 pm
Break
2:40 pm
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Tip of the Iceberg: Tip Reporting at U.S. Restaurants, 2005-2018 (slides)
Discussant: Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:20 pm
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Poverty in the United States
Discussant: James P. Ziliak, University of Kentucky
4:00 pm
Adjourn