Unsung Hero: NBER Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

Here's to the the NBER's ongoing Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW), unsung hero, home of down-and-dirty measurement mavens since 1935.  Yes, since 1935!  Check out Chuck Holten's fascinating CRIW description in the NBER Reporter, and the full list of associated CRIW volumes published. What a stunning record of steady service.

FYI a typical program (in this case, from last summer) appears below.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 NBER/CRIW Workshop

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, Carol Corrado and Charles R. Hulten, Organizers

July 13-14, 2015

Charles B Room Royal Sonesta Hotel 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Monday, July 13:
8:30 am	Continental breakfast
9:00 am	Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Gabriel Zucman, London School of Economics Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States Since 1913 Discussant: John Sabelhaus, Federal Reserve Board
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Jae Song, Social Security Administration David J. Price, Stanford University Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBERTill M. von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Firming Up Inequality Discussant:  Johannes Schmieder, Boston University
11:15 am	Phillipe Aghion, Harvard University and NBERUfuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Antonin Bergeaud, Banque de France Richard Blundell, University College London David Hemous, INSEAD Innovation and Top Income Inequality Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado and NBER Hale Utar, Bielefeld University International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level Discusant: David Autor, MIT and NBER
1:45 pm	Dongya Koh, University of Arkansas Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Washington University in St. Louis Yu Zheng, City University of Hong Kong Labor Share Decline and the Capitalization of Intellectual Property Products Discussant: Dan Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Measuring the Effects of the Tipped Minimum Wage Using W-2 Data
3:30 pm	Muge Adalet McGowan, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques(OCDE) Dan R. Andrews, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques(OCDE)Labour Market Mismatch and Labour Productivity: Evidence from PIAAC Data
4:00 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 14:
8:30 am	Continental breakfast
9:00 am	Carol Corrado, The Conference Board Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College London Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, LUISS University of Rome Bilal Nasim, Institute of EducationIs International R&D Tax Competition a Zero-sum Game? Evidence from the EU  Discussant: Bronwyn Hall, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:45 am	Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board Jae Sim, Federal Reserve Board Why Do Innovative Firms Hold So Much Cash? Evidence from Changes in State R&D Tax Credits Discussant: Daniel Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Moore’s Law goes Multicore: The Economic Consequences of a Fundamental Change in how Computers work Discussant: Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:45 am	John Bai, University of Southern California Daniel Carvalho, University of Southern California Gordon Phillips, University of Southern CaliforniaThe Impact of Bank Credit on Labor Reallocation and Aggregate Industry Productivity Discussant: Javier Miranda, Census Bureau
12:30 pm	Lunch
Joint Session with Macro Productivity:
1:30 pm	Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland and NBER Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Chicago and NBER Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, ESADE-Universitat Ramon LlullCapital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe Discussant: Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto
2:15 pm	Colin J. Hottman, Columbia University Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER What is ’Firm Heterogeneity’ in Trade Models? The Role of Quality, Scope, Markups, and Cost Discussant: Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Lucia Foster, Bureau of the Census Cheryl Grim, Bureau of the Census John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Zoltan Wolf, Center for Economic Studies, US Bureau of Census Macro and Micro Dynamics of Productivity: Is the Devil in the Details? Discussant: Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER
4:00 pm	Adjourn
5:15 pm	Reception at the Royal Sonesta Hotel