AEASTAT: 2025 Annual Meeting

Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics

Session #1: Advances in Measurement of Wealth, Nonwage Income, and Inequality
Chair: Sandra Black, Columbia University

Intergenerational Mobility and Housing Wealth in the United States
Ariel Binder, U.S. Census Bureau
Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University
John Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau

The Curious Case of Inheritance: How Important Are Transfers from Parents for Wealth Concentration?
Serder Ozkan, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Elin Halvorsen, Statistics Norway
Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania
Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania

Inequality and the Corporate Sector
Conor Clarke, Washington University in St. Louis
Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University

Economic Well-Being and the Effects of Transfer Programs using Linked Expenditure and Administrative Data
Derek Wu, University of Virginia
Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
James Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

Discussant(s)
Sandra Black, Columbia University
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago

Session #2: Big Data and Advances in Economic Statistics
Chair: Karen Dynan, Harvard University

Expanding the Frontier of Economic Statistics Using Big Data: A Case Study of Regional Employment
Brian Quistorff, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Abe Dunn, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Eric English, U.S. Census Bureau
Kyle Hood, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Lowell Mason, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

From Online Job Postings to Economic Insights: A Machine Learning Approach to Structuring Naturally-Occurring Data
Tatjana Dahlhaus, Bank of Canada
Reinhard Ellwanger, Bank of Canada
Gabriela Galassi, Bank of Canada
Pierre-Yves Yanni, Bank of Canada

Nowcasting Distributional National Accounts for the United States: A Machine Learning Approach
Marina Gindelsky, George Washington University H.O. Stekler Program on Forecasting
Gary Cornwall, George Washington University

Slowly Scaling Per-Record Differential Privacy
Brian Finley, U.S. Census Bureau
Justin Doty, U.S. Census Bureau
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Tumult Labs
Mikaela Meyer, MITRE
David Pujol, Tumult Labs

Discussant(s)
Nela Richardson, ADP
Pawel Adrjan, Indeed
David S. Johnson, Committee on National Statistics, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Erica Groshen, Cornell University and Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Session #3: The Retail Transformation (C8, D2)
Chair: Zhonglin Li, National University of Singapore

Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Yue Cao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Judith Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
Hayden Parsley, University of Texas-Austin
Kevin R. Williams, Yale University and NBER

Productivity Dispersion and Structural Change in Retail Trade
Dominic Smith, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
G. Jacob Blackwood, U.S. Census Bureau and Amherst College
Michael Giandra, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Cheryl Grim, U.S. Census Bureau
Jay Stewart, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Markups and Cost Pass-through along the Supply Chain
Santiago Ernesto Alvarez-Blaser, University of Basel
Alberto Cavallo, Harvard Business School
Alexander Mackay, Harvard Business School
Paolo Mengano, Harvard Business School

Sales and Margins: Alternative Measures of Output and Productivity for Retail Trade
Jennifer Kim, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jenny Rudd, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jennifer Price, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Charles Myers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Kandi Miller, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Discussant(s)
Brett Hollenbeck, University of California-Los Angeles
Zhonglin Li, National University of Singapore
Brian Wheaton, University of California-Los Angeles
James Traina, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco