2021 Consumption Symposium: Program Agenda, September 22-23, 2021
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021
(All times EDT)
9:00-9:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
9:00-9:07 a.m. | Opening Remarks & Meeting Agenda Overview ‐ Thesia I. Garner (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and Adam Safir (Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
9:07-9:15 a.m. | Welcome Remarks ‐ Commissioner William Beach (Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
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9:15-10:45 a.m. | Panel: Concepts, Challenges, International Perspective |
| Session leader: Thesia I. Garner (Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
| Concepts and Practical Issues ‐ Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University) |
| Home Production ‐ Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
| International Perspective ‐ Paul Schreyer (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) |
10:45-10:55 a.m. | Discussion, Q&A |
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10:55-11:05 a.m. | Break |
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11:05-12:25 p.m. | Applications of Traditional and Non-traditional Approaches |
| Session leader: Thomas Crossley (European University Institute) |
| Measuring Consumption and Consumption Inequality using Household Surveys ‐ Jonathan Fisher (Stanford University - presenter) and David Johnson (University of Michigan) |
| Issues in the Construction of an Expanded Measure of Consumption: Lessons from LIMEW ‐ Ajit Zacharias (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College - presenter) and Fernando Rios-Avila (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College - presenter) |
| Diamonds in the Rough? Repurposing Multi-Topic Surveys to Estimate Individual-level Consumption Poverty ‐ Theophiline Bose-Duker (World Bank), Isis Gaddis (World Bank), Talip Kilic (presenter - World Bank), Valérie Lechene (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies), and Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University - presenter) |
| A Birdseye View of Well-being: Exploring a Multidimensional Measure for the United Kingdom ‐ Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford - presenter) and Fanni Kovesdi (University of Oxford - presenter) |
12:25-12:35 p.m. | Discussion, Q&A |
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12:35-12:40 p.m. | Break |
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12:40-1:15 p.m. | Durables |
| Session leader: Robert Cage (Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
| Imputing Service Flows from Durables ‐ Jim Sullivan (University of Notre Dame- presenter), Jeehoon Han (Zhejiang University), and Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago) |
| A Consumption Measure for Motor Vehicles ‐ Caleb Cho (Bureau of Labor Statistics - presenter) and Dominic Smith (Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
1:15-1:25 p.m. | Discussion, Q&A |
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1:25-1:30 p.m. | Wrap-up and Review Program for Thursday |
Thursday, September 23, 2021
9:00-9:05 a.m. | Welcome and Plan for the Day |
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9:05-10:05 a.m. | In-Kind Benefits |
| Session leader: Laura Wheaton (Urban Institute) |
| How CBO Adjusts for Underreporting of Means-Tested Transfers in its Distributional Analyses ‐ Bilal Habib (Congressional Budget Office) |
| Imputing In-Kind Benefits in Survey Data ‐ Nikolas Mittag (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences) |
| Fixing Errors in a SNAP: Addressing SNAP Under-reporting to Evaluate Poverty ‐ Jonathan Rothbaum (U.S. Census Bureau – presenter), Kathryn Shantz (Urban Institute), and Liana Fox (U.S. Census Bureau) |
10:05-10:15 a.m. | Discussion, Q&A |
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10:15-10:55 a.m. | Home Production |
| Session leader: Erica Groshen (Cornell University) |
| What Can Time Use Data Tell Us about Home Production? ‐ Harley Frazis (Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
| Incorporating Home Production in a Measure of Consumption ‐ Jim Sullivan (University of Notre Dame), Jeehoon Han (Zhejiang University - presenter), and Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago) |
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10:55-11:00 a.m. | Break |
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11:00-11:40 a.m. | Home Production (continued) |
| Session leader: Erica Groshen (Cornell University) |
| Measurement of Household Production and the BEA Satellite Account ‐ Benjamin Bridgman (Bureau of Economic Analysis) |
| Expanding Consumption Measurement ‐ Leonard Nakamura (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - presenter), Diane Coyle (Cambridge University), and Charles Hulten (University of Maryland) |
11:40-11:50 a.m. | Discussion, Q&A |
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11:50-12:35 p.m. | Health Insurance |
| Session leader: Bobbi Wolfe (University of Wisconsin) |
| Health Insurance ‐ Kevin Corinth (University of Chicago) |
| Incorporating Health Insurance into Consumption (Poverty) Measurement ‐ Dahlia Remler (City University of New York) |
12:35-12:45 p.m. | Discussion, Q&A |
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12:45-1:30 p.m. | Reflections and Next Steps |
| David Johnson (University of Michigan) |
| Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago) |
| Thesia I. Garner (Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
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1:30 p.m. | Consumption Symposium Ends |
Questions?
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Last Modified Date: September 22, 2021
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