SGE-ASSA Program
January 4-6, 2008
New Orleans, LA
Economic Instability among U.S. Workers and Families
Organizer: Jonathan A. Schwabish
Chair: Jonathan A. Schwabish
Karen E. Dynan, Douglas W. Elmendorf , and Daniel E. Sichel, Federal Reserve Board --- The Evolution of Aggregate and Household-Level Economic Volatility
Thomas DeLeire, Molly Dahl, and Jonathan Schwabish, Congressional Budget Office --- Variability in Workers’ Earnings: The Frequency of, Trends in, and Causes of Large Earnings Reductions
Constance Newman, Dean Jolliffe, and Mark Prell , U.S. Department of Agriculture --- The Role of Food Stamps in Reducing Poverty over Time
Discussants: Maury Gittleman, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Austin Nichols, Urban Institute
Craig Gundersen, Iowa State UniversityMarket Work and Time Use
Organizer: Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Chair:Charlene Kalenkoski
Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics --- How Much Do People Really Work in the New Economy?
Jennifer Ward-Batts, Claremont McKenna College --- Household Production and Consumption around Retirement: Evidence from Time-Use Data
Charlene Kalenkoski, Ohio University, and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics --- Does Working While in High School Crowd Out Study Time?
Discussants: Daniel Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Giandrea, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Anne Winkler, University of Missouri-St.Louis
Measuring Income and Taxation
Organizer: Mark Ledbetter
Chair: Rosemary Marcus
Robert Brown, Bureau of Economic Analysis --- The Feasibility of Producing Personal Income to Adjusted Gross Income (PI-AGI) Reconciliations by State
Mark Ledbetter, Bureau of Economic Analysis --- An Analytical Framework to Understanding Conceptional Differences between the BEA Measure of Personal Income and the IRS Measure of Adjusted Gross Income
John Peloquin, Minnesota Department of Finance --- Minnesota Forecasting of Income Taxes
Phil King, Canadian Department of Finance --- Methodology of Forecasting Canadian Personal Income Tax Revenues with Microsimulation Models and National Account Estimates
Discussants: Kim Bloomquist, Senior Economist, IRS
Brooks Robinson, Institute for Triple Helix Innovation
Ralph Rector, Heritage Foundation
Joel Platt, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Housing and Housing Services in Federal Statistics
Organizer: Kathleen Short
Chair: Patricia Ruggles
Nicole Mayerhauser and Denise McBride, Bureau of Economic Analysis --- The Treatment of Housing in the National Income and Product Accounts
Thesia I. Garner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Sylvester Young, ILO --- Housing Services in Consumption with a Focus on the U.S.
Kathleen Short and Amy O’Hara, U.S. Census Bureau --- Valuing Housing in Measures of Household Income and Poverty
Discussants: Stephen Malpezzi, University of Wisconsin
John Greenlees, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Semiconductors
Organizer: Ana Aizcorbe
Chair: Samuel Kortum
Ralph Siebert, Purdue University --- How Licensing Resolves Hold-Up:Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas --- The Microeconomics of Microprocessor Innovation
Unnikrishnan Sadasivan Pillai, University of Chicago --- Drivers of Technological Innovation in Computation
Brett Gordon, Carnegie Mellon University --- A Dynamic Model of Consumer Replacement Cycles in the PC Processor Industry
Discussants: Daniel Sichel, Federal Reserve Board
Paul Thomas, Intel
Ana Aizcorbe, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Carol Robbins, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Behavioral Effects of Tax Policy
Organizer: Thornton Matheson
Chair: Pam Moomau
Gerald Auten and David Joulfaian, Department of the Treasury --- The Taxable Income Elasticity Revisited: Evidence from a Long Panel
Bradley Heim and Ithai Lurie, Department of the Treasury --- Do Increased Premium Subsidies Affect How Much Health Insurance Is Purchased? Evidence from the Self-Employed
Bradley Heim, Department of the Treasury --- The Responsiveness of Reported Self-Employment Income to Tax Rate Changes
Thornton Matheson, Department of the Treasury --- The Effect of the Corporate Income Tax on Leverage in Public Corporations
Discussants: Len Burman, Urban Institute
Reevaluating Old Issues with Novel Data Sets
Organizer: Gregory Kurtzon
Chair: Gregory Kurtzon
Tricia Gladden, Bureau of Labor Statistics --- Re-examining the impact of the computer age on the US labor market
Gregory Kurtzon, Bureau of Labor Statistics --- Do the Poor Pay More Store-by-Store?
Marc Fusaro, East Carolina University --- Bank Markets Concentration: Don’t Forget about Credit Unions
Discussants: Peter Meyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bradley Heim, Department of the Treasury
Tricia Gladden, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Marc Fusaro, East Carolina University
The Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government
Organizer: Bill Lawhorn
Chair: Bill Lawhorn
TBD