AEASTAT: 2018 Annual Meeting

Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics, 2018 ASSA meetings

 

Session 1: Challenges, Threats, and Opportunities for Economic Measurement

Chair: David Wessel, Brookings Institution

Panelist(s)
Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland
Alan Krueger, Princeton University
Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago


Session 2: Measuring United States Business Dynamics

Chair: John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland

Upcoming Improvements to the Longitudinal Business Database and the Business Dynamics Statistics
Martha Stinson, U.S. Census Bureau
Thomas Kirk White, U.S. Census Bureau

Business Dynamics of United States Exporters: Integrating Trade Transactions Data With Business Administrative Data
Glenn Baresse, U.S. Census Bureau
Fariha Kamal, U.S. Census Bureau
Javier Miranda, U.S. Census Bureau
Wei Ouyang, U.S. Census Bureau

Business Dynamic Statistics of Innovative Firms
Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau
Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau

Business Dynamics and Worker Earnings
Kristin McCue, U.S. Census Bureau
Martha Stinson, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant(s)
Timothy Dunne, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown University
William R. Kerr, Harvard University
Rebecca Zarutskie, Federal Reserve Board


Session 3: The Dynamics of Income: Celebrating 50 years of the PSID

Chair: David Johnson, University of Michigan

Economic Volatility and the PSID: A Record of Seminal Research
Peter Gottschalk, Boston College
Robert A. Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University
Sisi Zhang, Jinan University

Nonlinear Persistence and Partial Insurance: Income Dynamics and Consumption Insurance in the PSID
Manuel Arellano, CEMFI, Madrid
Richard Blundell, University College London
Stephane Bonhomme, University of Chicago

Recent Trends in the Variability of Men’s Earnings: Evidence From Administrative and Survey Data
Michael Carr, University of Massachusetts Boston
Emily Wiemers, University of Massachusetts Boston

How Much Consumption Insurance in the United States?
Dmytro Hryshko, University of Alberta
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant(s)
Karen Dynan, Harvard University
James Ziliak, University of Kentucky