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)
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
10:55-11:05 a.m.	Break
11:05-12:25 p.m.	Applications of Traditional and Non-traditional Approaches
	Session leader: Thomas Crossley (European University Institute Villa La Fonte)
	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: Non-market Consumption and Data Fusion ‐ 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
12:35-12:40 p.m.	Break
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), Jeehoo Han (Zhejiang University), 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
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
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) and Kathryn Shantz (Urban Institute)
10:05-10:15 a.m.	Discussion, Q&A
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), Jeehoo Han (Zhejiang University - presenter), Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago)
10:55-11:00 a.m.	Break
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
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
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)
1:30 p.m.	Consumption Symposium Ends

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Last Modified Date: August 31, 2021