Preliminary Conference Programme for 37th IARIW General Conference, Luxembourg, August 22-26, 2022 (as of April 26)
The word version of the Preliminary Conference Programme is available here
Monday, August 22
14:00-20:00, Registration
18:00-20:00, Welcome Reception
Tuesday, August 23
9:00-9:15, Opening Remarks (livestream)
Serge Allegrezza: Director General, STATEC
Kevin Fox: IARIW President
9:15-11:00, Opening Plenary Session: Trust, Well-being, and Productivity (live stream)
Chair: Tim Smeeding (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
1- Trust in Official Statistics across Europe: Evidence from Two Waves of Eurobarometer Using Multilevel Models
Serge Allegrezza (STATEC)- Abstract
2- Life Satisfaction and Noncognitive Skills: Effects on the Likelihood of Unemployment
Kelsey J. O’Connor (STATEC)- Abstract
3- Productivity Gains from Job Satisfaction in Europe
Chiara Peroni (STATEC), Maxime Pettinger (STATEC) and Francesco Sarracino (STATEC)- Abstract
4- From Economic Productivity to Productive Well-being
Charles-Henri DiMaria (STATEC) – Abstract
11:00-11:30, Break
11:30-12:30, Round Table on Trust, Well-being, and Productivity
Panelists:
Bart van Ark (University of Manchester and The Productivity Institute, United Kingdom)
Diane Coyle (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
12:30-14:00, Lunch
14:00-17:30, Concurrent Sessions 2A1-2, 2B1-2, 2C1-2, 2D1-2
Session 2A– Environmental Accounting, Natural Capital and Productivity (livestream)
Organizers: Bart van Ark (University of Manchester and The Productivity Institute, United Kingdom), Rebecca Riley (ESCoE and Kings College London, United Kingdom) and Matthew Agarwala (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Session 2A-1, Environmental Accounting, Natural Capital and Productivity I
14:00-15:30
1- IMF’s Global and Regional Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounts
Mark de Haan (IMF), Jennifer Ribarsky (IMF), Jim Tebrake (IMF) and Achille Pegoue (IMF) –Proposal
2- Proof of Concept for a U.S. Air Emissions Physical Flows Account
Matthew Chambers (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis), Catherine Birney (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Ben Young (Eastern Research Group, Inc., United States) and Wesley Ingwersen (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)- Proposal
3- Targeting R&D Subsidies to Clean Technologies to Address Climate Change and Boost Productivity
Ralf Martin (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) and Dennis Verhoeven (Bocconi University, Italy) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 2A-2, Environmental Accounting, Natural Capital and Productivity II
16:00-17:30
4- A SNA Framework to Capture Growth in the Services of Natural Resources
Rachel Harris Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis, United States) – Proposal
5- Climate Protection Potential of Digital Transformation – The Role of Production Relocation
Thomas Niebel (ZEW Mannheim, Germany), Janna Axenbeck (ZEW Mannheim) and Justus Böning (ZEW Mannheim, Germany) – Proposal
6- Using Natural Capital Accounts to Integrate Environmental Change into Measures of Output and Productivity
Matthew Agarwala (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Josh Martin (UK ONS) and Cliodhna Taylor (UK ONS)- Proposal
Session 2B- Measuring Comprehensive Consumption and Implications for Equivalence Scales, National Accounts, Poverty, and Inequality
Organizers: Thesia Garner (BLS, United States), Diane Coyle (Cambridge University, United Kingdom) Thomas Crossley ( European University Institute, Italy), Nancy Folbre ( University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States), Dean Jolliffe ( Word Bank), Leonard Nakamura (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, United States), Sabrina Pabilonia (BLS, United States) and Paul Schreyer ( OECD)
Session 2B-1, Measuring Comprehensive Consumption and Implications for Equivalence Scales, National Accounts, Poverty, and Inequality I
14:00-15:30
1- Childcare, Household Expenditures and Consumption of Unpaid Services: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Leila Gautham (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States) and Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)- Proposal
2- Poverty Analysis Using a Comprehensive Consumption Measure
Brett Matsumoto (Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States), Jake Schild (Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States)-Proposal
3- The Non-Market Production of Amicable Relationships in Shared Households
Rachel Harris Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis, United States)- Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 2B-2, Measuring Comprehensive Consumption and Implications for Equivalence Scales, National Accounts, Poverty, and Inequality II
16:00-17:30
4- Is GDP Becoming Obsolete? The Beyond GDP
Leonard Nakamura (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, United States) and Charles Hulten (University of Marylandand, United States)- Proposal
5- Household Income Based on a Broad View of Production: The Contribution of Women
Mitsuhiko Iyoda (Momoyama Gakuin University, Japan)- Proposal
6- Estimating Poverty Trends in Absence of Comparable Household Consumption Data: An Example from Nigeria
Marta Schoch (World Bank), Jonathan Lain (World Bank) and Tara Vishwanath (World Bank)- Proposal
Session 2C- New Measures of Global Comparisons in Well-Being and Sustainability
Organisers: Jorrit Zwijnenburg (OECD), Ann Lisbet Brathaug ( Statistic Norway) and Michail Moatsos ( University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Session 2C-1, New Measures of Global Comparisons in Well-Being and Sustainability I
14:00-15:30
1- GDP and Welfare: Empirical Estimates of a Spectrum of Opportunity
Cliodhna Taylor (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom), Richard Heys (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom), Robert Bucknall (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom) and Stephen Christie –Proposal
2- Social Sustainability, Poverty and Income Levels: An Empirical Exploration
Jose Cuesta (World Bank), Lucia Madrigal (World Bank) and Natalia Pecorari (World Bank) – Proposal
3- The Sustainability of Sustainable Development Measurement
Tingyi Liu (Economics and Management School of Wuhan University, China) and Dong Qiu (Statistics School of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 2C-2, New Measures of Global Comparisons in Well-Being and Sustainability II
16:00-17:30
4- Confidence Intervals and Long-run Trends in Food Prices, the Cost of Basic Needs, and Global Poverty
Michail Moatsos (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) – Proposal
5- The Impact of Social Transfers in Kind on Gender Inequality
Yafit Alfandari (Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel) – Proposal
6- Measuring Intersectional Inequality in Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Dario Meili (Development Economics Group ETH Zurich, Switzerland ) and Isabel Günther (Development Economics Group ETH Zurich, Switzerland) – Proposal
Session 2D: Advancing Measurement and Valuation in the System of National Accounts
Organizers: Catherine Van Rompaey (World Bank) and Peter van de Ven (OECD, retired)
Session 2D-1, Advancing Measurement and Valuation in the System of National Accounts I
14:00-15:30
1- Research on the Value Accounting of Free Internet Service
Weiying Ping (Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China), Yulu Zhang (Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China) and Liangqing Luo (Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China) – Proposal
2- New Estimates of the Value of Unpaid Household Work for Canada, 2015-2019
Amanda Sinclair (Statistics Canada) and Sandy Besporstov (Statistics Canada)- Proposal
3- Measuring the Value Contributions of Intangibles: A Data-driven Approach
Rebecca Riley (King’s College London, United Kingdom), Leonard Nakamura (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, United States) and Oleksii Romanko (King’s College London, United Kingdom)- Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 2D-2, Advancing Measurement and Valuation in the System of National Accounts II
16:00-17:30
4- Productivity and Labor Services with Age and Vintage Adjustment of U. S. Market Hours, 1975-2013
Barbara Fraumeni (Central University of Finance and Economics, China) –Proposal
5- Does Worker’s Experience Matter for Russian Growth?
Ilya B. Voskoboynikov (HSE University, Russia), Evgenia M. Chernina (HSE University, Russia) and Vladimir E. Gimpelson (HSE University, Russia)-Proposal
6- A Sensitivity Analysis of Capital and MFP Measurement to Asset Depreciation Patterns and Initial Capital Stock Estimates
Pierre-Alain Pionnier (OECD), Belen Zinni (OECD) and Kéa Baret (OECD)- Proposal
17:45-19:00, Ruggles Lecture (livestream)
John Fernald (INSEAD and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), Title TBC
19:00-20:30, Dinner
Wednesday, August 24
9:00-12:00, Plenary Session 3 (livestream)
Session 3-1, Understanding the Child Well-Being Impacts of the Pandemic
Organizer: Surajit Deb (University of Delhi, India)
9:00-10:30
1- Impact of COVID-19 on the Welfare of Households with Children: An Overview Based on High Frequency Phone Surveys
Jose Cuesta (World Bank), Siwei Tian (World Bank), Solrun Engilbertsdottir (UNICEF), Enrique Delamonica (UNICEF), David Stewart (UNICEF), David Newhouse (UNICEF)-Proposal
2- The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Children in Kenya
Samuel Siewers (University of Göttingen, Germany), Emma Cameron (World Bank), Antonia Delius (World Bank), Amanda Devercelli (World Bank) and Utz Pape (World Bank) – Proposal
3- Parental Engagement in Early Childhood Education During COVID-19: Learning from Structured Tech and Teacher Support Programs in Urban Maharashtra
Nisha Pankaj Vernekar (Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India), Karan Singhal (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad) and Aditya Narayan Rai (Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India) – Proposal
10:30-11:00, Break
Session 3-2, Advancing Measurement and Valuation in the System of National Accounts
Organizers: Catherine Van Rompaey (World Bank) and Peter van De Ven ( OECD, retired)
11:00-12:30
1- Free Services in the Netherlands
Martin Van Elp (Statistics Netherlands), Nicky Kuijpers (Statistics Netherlands) and Nino Mushkudiani (Statistics Netherlands) – Proposal
2- Valuing the U.S. Data Economy Using Machine Learning and Online Job Postings
José Bayoán Santiago Calderón (Bureau of Economic Analysis, United States) and Dylan Grassier (Bureau of Economic Analysis, United States) – Proposal
3- New Measures of Prices for R&D
Leonard Nakamura (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, United States) – Proposal
12:30-14:00, Lunch
14:00-17:30, Concurrent Sessions 4A1-2, 4B1-2, 4C1-2, 4D1-2
Session 4A- New Developments in Poverty Measurement with a Focus on National Statistical Office Efforts (livestream)
Organizers: Shatakshee Dhongde (Georgia Tech, United States) and Thesia Garner (BLS, United States)
Session 4A-1, New Developments in Poverty Measurement with a Focus on National Statistical Office Efforts I
14:00-15:30
1- The Role of Wealth in Measuring Poverty in Denmark
Daniel F. Gustafsson (Statistics Denmark) –Proposal
2– Measuring Objective and Subjective Aspects of Poverty. Discussion of Different Approaches and Measurement Methods Based on the Polish EU-SILC Survey.
Anna Szukielojc-Bienkunska (Statistics Poland) and Tomasz Piasecki (Statistics Poland) – Proposal
3- United States Inflation Experience across the Income Distribution
Anya Stockburger (Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States)) and Joshua Klick (Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States)) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 4A-2, New Developments in Poverty Measurement with a Focus on National Statistical Office Efforts II
16:00-17:30
4- The Measurement of Poverty of Low-wage Workers in Developed Countries; The Example of Singapore
Mavis Lim (Ministry of Manpower Singapore) – Proposal
5- The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Inequality and Poverty
Nishant Yonzan (World Bank), Daniel Gerszon Mahler (World Bank) and Christoph Lakner (World Bank) – Proposal
6- Health Insurance in a Comprehensive Consumption Measure
Brett Matsumoto (Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States)- Proposal
Session 4B- Measuring the Self-Employed, Contract Work, and Gig Workers
Organizers: Wendy Li (Moon Economics Institute, United States) and Sabrina Pabiloni ( U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Session 4B-1, Measuring the Self-Employed, Contract Work, and Gig Workers I
14:00-15:30
1– The Impact of Self-employed on Productivity Measurement in the Netherlands
Hugo de Bondt (Statistics Netherlands / CBS) –Proposal
2- Why are Estimates of Self-employment Hours So Volatile?
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) and Cindy Cunningham (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) – Proposal
3- Some Observations on the Rising Self-employment in India
Surajit Deb (Delhi University, Aryabhatta College, India) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 4B-2, Measuring the Self-Employed, Contract Work, and Gig Workers II
16:00-17:30
4- Development of Self-employed in Hungary Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic Related to Selected Economic Activities
Máté Mogyorósi (Hungarian Central Statistical Office), Klaudia Máténé Bella (Hungarian Central Statistical Office), Ildikó Ritzlné Kazimir (Hungarian Central Statistical Office) and Tímea Cseh (Hungarian Central Statistical Office) –Proposal
5- The Status of Self-employed, Contract, and Gig Workers in India: Some Recent Changes
Suresh Chand Aggarwal (University of Delhi, India) – Proposal
6- The Measurement of the Self-employed in Singapore
Jeremy Heng (Singapore Ministry of Manpower) –Proposal
Session 4C-1, New Measures of Global Comparisons in Well-Being and Sustainability III
Organizers: Jorrit Zwijnenburg (OECD), Ann Lisbet Brathaug (Statistic Norway) and Michail Moatsos (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)
14:00-15:30
1-Towards Integrating SNA, SEEA and SDGs – A Simplified Excel-Based Sustainability Accounting Tool for Cities
Steivan Defilla (Tianjin University, China) – Proposal
2- Integrating Purchasing Power Parities in the World Bank’s Classification of Countries by Income Level
Catherine Van Rompaey (World Bank), Nada Hamadeh (World Bank), Eric Metreau (World Bank), Marko Rissanen (World Bank) and Mizuki Yamanaka (World Bank)- Proposal
3- Inequality in Multidimensional Well-Being in the United States
Shatakshee Dhongde (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States), Prasanta Pattanaik (University of California, United States), Riverside and Yongsheng Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 4C-2, Proposal on Big Data: Economic Value, Digital Transformation, Productivity and Policy
Organizers: Daniel Ker (UNCTAD), Wendy Li ( Moon Economics Institute, United States) and David Nguyen ( OECD)
16:00-17:30
1- Firms Going Digital: Tapping into the Potential of Data for Innovation
David Gierten (OECD), Steffen Viete (KfW Bank, Germany), Raphaela Andres (ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Germany) and Thomas Niebel (ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Germany)- Proposal
2- Economic Values of Data and Data Flow, and Global Minimum Tax
Wendy Li (Moon Economics Institute, United States) – Proposal
3– The Double Divide: The Intensity of Intangible and Investment into New Technologies in Small Firms and Their Contribution to Firm Performance
Tjaša Redek (University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia) and Eva Erjavec (University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia) – Proposal
Session 4D- Fighting Inequality and Poverty: Exploiting within and across Country Variations to Evaluate Distributive Impacts of Policy
Organizers: Petra Sauer (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research ( LISER) and Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) ) and Philippe van Kerm (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research ( LISER) and University of Luxembourg )
Session 4D-1, Fighting Inequality and Poverty: Exploiting within and across Country Variations to Evaluate Distributive Impacts of Policy I
14:00-15:30
1- Two Decades of Poverty Reduction on Canada’s Political Agendas: Are Single Parent Households and Single Adults Less Likely to Experience Poverty
Geranda Notten (Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada), Fatima Tuz Zohora (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Charles Plante (Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada) – Proposal
2- The Impact of Social Security Wealth on the Distribution of Wealth in the European Union
Marcin Wroński (Collegium of World Economy, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland) – Proposal
3- Top Incomes, Gender Differentials and Personal Income Taxation. Recent Evidence for Uruguay
Andrea Vigorito (Instituto de Economia, FCEA, Universidad de la Republica ,Uruguay), Mauricio De Rosa (Instituto de Economia, FCEA, Universidad de la República, Uruguay ) and Joan Vilà (Instituto de Economia, FCEA, Universidad de la República, Uruguay) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
4D-2, Fighting Inequality and Poverty: Exploiting within and across Country Variations to Evaluate Distributive Impacts of Policy II
16:00-17:30
4- Children and the Fiscal Space in Ethiopia: A Gendered CEQ Analysis
Alemayehu Ambel (World Bank) and Getachew Belete (World Bank) – Proposal
5- Transportation Subsidies and Food Insecurity in Remote Communities: Evidence from the Food Mail Program and Nutrition North Canada
Barry Watson (University of New Brunswick, Canada), Angela Daley (University of Maine, United States), Sujita Pandey (University of Maine, United States) and Shelley Phipps (Dalhousie University, Canada) – Proposal
6- Reconstruction of the Social Cash Transfers System in Poland and Household Well-being: 2015-2018 Evidence
Adam Szulc (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland) – Proposal
17:30-18:30, Poster Session
Theme 1, Advancing Measurement and Valuation in the System of National Accounts
1) The Effect on US GDP of Treating Non-profit Institutions Serving Households as Market Producers
Takashi Yamashita (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis) – Proposal
Theme 3, Measuring Comprehensive Consumption and Implications for Equivalence Scales, National Accounts, Poverty, and Inequality
1) A Study on the Measurement of Purchasing Power Parity in China：Multilateral Index Number Systems Based on Stochastic Approach
Xiaoxi Yu (Beijing Technology and Business University, China) and Chunyun Wang (Beijing Technology and Business University, China) – Proposal
2) Measurements Issues in the SNA
Tingyi Liu (Economics and Management School of Wuhan University, China) and Dong Qiu ( Statistics School of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China) – Proposal
3) Measuring Circumstance Poverty in Portugal: Who are the Worst off?
Laman Orujova (NOVA School of Business and Economics, Portugal) – Proposal
4) The Analysis of Interval-censured Data
Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza (The World Bank), Flavia Sacco Capurro (The World Bank) and Fernando Rios-Avila (Levy Institute, United States) – Proposal
5) Objective and Subjective Aspects of Poverty Measurement in the EU
Martina Mysíková (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences) and Tomáš Želinský (Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia)- Proposal
6) Consumption Subsidies Revisited
Itsuo Sakuma (Senshu University, Japan) – Proposal
Theme 5, New Measures of Global Comparisons in Well-Being and Sustainability
1) Measurement of Multidimensional Well-being of Women in India during 2015-16: A Household-Level Study Using National Family Health Survey Data
Anindita Sengupta (Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, West Bengal State University, India) – Abstract
2) How is Mobile Broadband Affecting CO2 Emissions Globally?
Harald Edquist (Ericsson Research, Sweden) – Proposal
3) Measurement of Commodity Price Volatility and Terms of Trade Adjusted Economic Well-Being – A Cross Country Analysis
Ratan Kumar Ghosal (University of Calcutta, India) – Proposal
Theme 6, Natural Capital and Productivity
1) Dynamics of Cross Country Variations in the Productivity Growth and the Role of Natural Capital
Ratan Kumar GhoSal (University of Calcutta, India) and Surajit Sengupta (Bhairab Ganguly College, West Bengal State University, India) – Proposal
Theme 7, Public Sector: Activity, Productivity, and Outcomes
1) Measuring Production and Well-being Outcomes of a Public Sector Clean Heat Subsidy Programme
Arthur Grimes (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, New Zealand ), Caroline Fyfe ( Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, New Zealand), Shannon Minehan (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, New Zealand) and Phoebe Taptiklis (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, New Zealand) – Proposal
2) Corruption in Rich and Poor Countries
Edgar Sanchez Carrera (University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy), Rosalba Rombaldoni (University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy) and Laura Lopez-Gomez (Murcia University, Spain) – Proposal
3) Public Sector Activity in Food Security: The Case of Food Corporation of India
Surajit Deb (University of Delhi, Aryabhatta College, India) – Proposal
Theme 8, Proposal on Big Data: Economic Value, Digital Transformation, Productivity and Policy
1) COVID Resilience by Firms
Oleksii Romanko (King’s College London, United Kingdom), Mary O’Mahony (King’s College London, United Kingdom), Elodie Andrieu (King’s College London, United Kingdom) and Layla O’Kane – Proposal
Theme 10, New Developments in Poverty Measurement with a Focus on National Statistical Office Efforts
1) The Price of Poverty: The Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty
Samuel Kofl Tetteh-Baah (World Bank), Christoph Lakner (World Bank), Daniel Gerszon Mahler (World Bank) and Aziz Atamanov (World Bank) – Proposal
Theme 11, Fighting Inequality and Poverty: Exploiting within and across Country Variations to Evaluate Distributive Impacts of Policy
1) Inflation-Inequality Puzzle: Is It Still Apparent?
Edmond Berisha (Montclair State University, United States), Orkideh Gharehgozi (Montclair State University, United States) and Rangan Gupta (University of Pretoria, South Africa) – Proposal
2) Spatial Disequilibrium, Provincial Inequality and Individual Inequality in Urban China
Jeffrey S. Zax (University of Colorado Boulder, United States) – Proposal
3) Job Discrimination, Earning Inequality and Policy Action: An Empirical Study with Indian Data
Panchanan Das (University of Calcutta, India) and Sumita Biswas (University of Calcutta, India) – Proposal
4) On Decomposing the Changes in Wage Inequality in Palestine over Time
Rabeh Morrar (An-Najah National University, Palestine), Hatem Jemmali (Higher Institute of Accountancy and Administration of Enterprises, University of Manouba, Tunisia) and Fernando RIOS-AVILA (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, United States) – Proposal
5) The Impact of Urbanization on Child Material Deprivation in Spain
Ana Moro-Egido (University of Granada, Spain) and Maria Navarro (University of Granada, Spain) – Proposal
6) Inequality of Opportunity and the Probability of Being Very Rich or Very Poor
Alessio Rebechi (Griffith University, Australia), Nicholas Rohde (Griffith University, Australia) and Gordon Anderson (University of Toronto, Canada) – Proposal
7) Assessing Multidimensional Relative Deprivation of Sub-castes in India
Chhavi Tiwari ( Ined – Institut National D’études Démographiques) – Proposal
8) Preventing the Return of Poverty in China
Liu Li Jin (School of Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China) and Guo Lu (School of Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China) – Abstract
9) Income Inequality and Political Instability
Ahliddin Malikov (Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan ) and Behzod Alimov (Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan ) – Proposal
10) Dynamics of Convergence in State Domestic Products among Indian States
Achal Kumar Gaur (Banaras Hindu University, India) – Proposal
11) The Industry Origin of China’s Inequality: An Exploration of the Impact of Government Industrial Policies on Income Distribution
Harry Wu (National School of Development, Peking University, China) and Esther Wu (National School of Development, Peking University, China) – Proposal
Theme 12, Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution around the World
1) Intergenerational Wealth Persistence in Great Britain
Ricky Kanabar (University of Bath, United Kingdom) and Paul Gregg (University of Bath, United Kingdom) – Proposal
2) Socio-economic Analysis of Distribution: An Investigation of the Influence of Income Distribution and Returns on Capital on Wealth Formation in Different Institutional Environments
Anastasia Biermann (Statistisches Bundesamt, Destatis, Germany) – Proposal
3) Wealth Inequality, Growth and Openness – A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Panchanan Das (University of Calcutta, India) – Proposal
4) Inequality of Opportunity in Wealth – Measurement from Germany
Viola Hilbert (DIW Berlin, Germany), Daniel Graeber ( DIW Berlin, Germany) and Johannes König (DIW Berlin, Germany) – Proposal
Theme 13, Reducing Gaps between Micro and Macro Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth in Compiling Distributional National Accounts
1) Distribution of Household Income, Consumption and Savings
Fernando Pineda Solís (National Accounts) – Proposal
Theme 14, Globalization- Addressing Conceptual and Practical Measurement Issues in a Rapidly Changing World
1) Historical Geography of the Semiconductor Industry
David Byrne (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) – Proposal
2) Measuring Global Flow of Funds: Cross-Border Country-Sectors Interconnected via ‘Who-to-whom’ Accounts
Nan Zhang (Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan) – Proposal
3) International Distributions of Net Factor Income from Abroad of Nations
Yafei Wang (Beijing Normal University, China), Dong Qiu ( Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China) and Chunyun Wang (Beijing Technology and Business University, China) – Proposal
4) Intangible Capital and Productivity Growth since Globalisation: A Cross Country Analysis
Surajit Sengupta ( Bhairab Ganguly College, West Bengal State University, India) and Ratan Kumar Ghosal ( University of Calcutta, India) – Abstract
Theme 15, Economic Insecurity: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
1) The Nexus between Child Labour in Agriculture and the Future of Jobs
Kingsley Kwame Gyamera Abrokwa (FAO, RAF) – Proposal
2) Economic Security for the Old-Age Population in India: Measurement across States
Surajit Deb (University of Delhi, Aryabhatta College, India) – Proposal
3) Migration, Poverty, and Well-Being in Tanzania
Gabriel Kulomba Simbila (National Bureau of Statistics) – Abstract
Other
1) Combining Property Transaction Data with a Representative Sample to Obtain a Biased Correct Property Price Index
Alim Furkan Kalay (The University of Queensland, Australia) and Alicia N. Rambaldi (The University of Queensland, Australia) – Proposal
2) A New Method for Constructing Price Spline Surfaces
Miriam Steurer (Graz University, Austria) and Norbert Pfeifer (Graz University, Austria) – Proposal
3) The Impact of Changing GDP Accounting Conventions on Evidence for Decoupling
Gregor Semieniuk (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States) – Proposal
4) Unemployment Transitions and the Role of Minimum Wage: From Pre-crisis to Crisis and Recovery
Eirini Andriopoulou (Council of Economic Advisors and Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) and Alexandros Karakitsios (Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) – Proposal
18:30-20:00, Dinner
20:00-22:30, IARIW Members Meeting (livestream)
Thursday, August 25
Plenary Session 5: Special Session to Mark the 75th Anniversary of the IARIW (livestream)
9:00-10:30, Research Progress, Challenges and the Future
1- Old Wine in New Digital Bottles: The Challenges of Measuring the Digital Economy
Diane Coyle (Cambridge University)
2- Improving the SNA: Measuring Wealth and the Treatment of Land and Natural Resources
Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia and UNSW Sydney)
3- Economic Insecurity and the Labour Market
Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics, CNRS)
10:30-11:00, Coffee Break
11:00-12:00, Panel Discussion
12:00-13:30, Lunch
13:30, Excursion
18:30-20:00, Dinner
Friday, August 26
9:00-12:30, Concurrent Sessions 6A1-2, 6B1-2, 6C1-2, 6D1-2
Session 6A- Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution around the World (livestream)
Organizers: Michail Moatsos (Utrecht University, the Netherlands and World Inequality Database) and Simon Toussaint (Utrecht University, the Netherlands and World Inequality Database)
Session 6A-1, Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution around the World I
9:00-10:30
1- Heterogenous Rates of Return on Homes and Other Real Estate: Do the Rich Do Better? Do Blacks Do Worse?
Edward N. Wolff (New York University, United States) – Proposal
2- The Business Cycle Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
Jesse Bricker (Federal Reserve Board, United States), Kamila Sommer (Federal Reserve Board, United States), Joseph Briggs (Federal Reserve Board, United States) and Sarah Friedman (University of Chicago, United States) – Proposal
3- The Mortgage Piggy Bank, Saving Behavior and the Distribution of Wealth: Evidence from Euro Area Countries
Luís Teles Morais (Nova School of Business and Economics & European Central Bank, DG Statistics)- Proposal
10:30-11:00, Break
Session 6A-2, Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution around the World II
11:00-12:30
4- Top Wealth and Income: New Data, Methods, and Estimates for Germany
Johannes König (DIW Berlin, Germany), Christian Schluter (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France) and Carsten Schröder (DIW Berlin, Germany) – Proposal
5- Individual Wealth Inequality: Measurement and Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Gayatri Koolwal (World Bank), Ardina Hasanbasri (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, and Word Bank), Talip Kilic (World Bank) and Heather Moylan (World Bank) – Proposal
6- Wealth Survey Calibration: Imposing Consistency with Income Tax Data
Daniel Kolář (Institute of Economic Studies, India)- Proposal
Session 6B- New Developments in Poverty Measurement with a Focus on National Statistical Office Efforts
Organizers: Shatakshee Dhongde (Georgia Tech, United States) and Thesia Garner (BLS, United States)
Session 6B-1, New Developments in Poverty Measurement with a Focus on National Statistical Office Efforts III
9:00-10:30
1- Determinants of the Degree in Which Individuals are Left Behind in European Countries
Francisca García-Pardo (University of Malaga, Spain), Elena Bárcena-Martín (University of Malaga, Spain) and Salvador Pérez-Moreno (University of Malaga, Spain) – Proposal
2- Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era: Opportunities and Challenges
Zhiyuan Ren (Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, China) and Yuhan Zhu (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China)- Proposal
3- A Proposal to Broaden Poverty Indicators in the EU Based in Key Social Needs
Olga Cantó (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain), Luis Ayala (UNED, Spain), Rosa Martínez (URJC, Spain), Carolina Navarro (UNED, Spain) and Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz (UNED, Spain)- Proposal
10:30-11:00, Break
6B-2, New Developments in Poverty Measurement with a Focus on National Statistical Office Efforts IV
11:00-12:30
4- A New Inequality-sensitive Multidimensional Deprivation Index (MDI) for Dichotomous Variables
Jacques Silber (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Jose Espinoza-Delgado (University of Goettingen, Germany) – Proposal
5- Money, Unpaid Work and Leisure: The Challenges of Measuring Time and Income Poverty
Franziska Ellen Dorn (University of Göttingen, Germany), Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States)- Proposal
6- Multidimensional Hardship in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Shatakshee Dhongde (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States) and Brian Glassman (U.S. Census Bureau) – Proposal
Session 6C- Reducing Gaps between Micro and Macro Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth in Compiling Distributional National Accounts
Organizers: David Johnson (University of Michigan, United States) and Jorrit Zwijnenburg ( OECD)
Session 6C-1, Reducing Gaps between Micro and Macro Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth in Compiling Distributional National Accounts I
9:00-10:30
1- Micro Macro Alignment of Household Income and Consumption in the EU. A Case Study Comparing the Eurostat Centralized Exercise with National Distributional Results
Friderike Oehler (Eurostat), Alessandra Coli (Eurostat), Radoslav Istatkov (Eurostat), Hakam Jayyousi (Eurostat) and Orestis Tsigkas (Eurostat) – Proposal
2- Pareto Tail Estimation in the Presence of Missing Rich in Compiling Distributional National Accounts
Jorrit Zwijnenburg (OECD) and Joseph Grilli (OECD)- Proposal
3- Does Predistribution or Redistribution Account for Varying Income Inequality?
Rafael Carranza (INET Oxford and DSPI, University of Oxford, United Kingdom) and Brian Nolan (INET Oxford and DSPI, United Kingdom) – Proposal
10:30-11:00, Break
Session 6C2, Reducing Gaps between Micro and Macro Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth in Compiling Distributional National Accounts II
11:00-12:30
4- Issues in Distributing National Income in the US
Gerald Auten (Office of Tax Analysis US Treasury Department) – Proposal
5- Wealth Dynamics of Households; Linking Micro and Macro
Ingber Roymans (Banque centrale du Luxembourg) – Proposal
6- Cashing in on Wealth: Links between Wealth and Income Inequality from the Lens of Distributional Wealth Accounts
Nina Blatnik (DG Statistics, European Central Bank), Ilja Kristian Kavonius (DG Statistics, European Central Bank) and Luís Teles Morais (DG Statistics, European Central Bank) – Proposal
Session 6D- Economic Insecurity: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
Organizers: Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg), Nicholas Rohde (Griffiths University, Australia) and Barry Watson (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Session 6D-1, Economic Insecurity: Measurement, Causes and Consequences I
9:00-10:30
1- Economic Insecurity, Racial Anxiety and Right-Wing Populism
Alessio Rebechi (Griffith University, Australia) and Nicholas Rohde (Griffith University, Australia) – Proposal
2- Job Insecurity, Savings and Consumption: An Italian Experiment
Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg), Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics – CNRS, France) and Conchita D’Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg) – Proposal
3- Money Matters: Consumption Volatility Across the Income Distribution
Jonathan Fisher (Washington Center for Equitable Growth, United States) and Bradley Hardy (Georgetown University, United States)- Proposal
10:30-11:00, Break
Session 6D-2, Economic Insecurity: Measurement, Causes and Consequences II
11:00-12:30
4- Measuring Economic Insecurity with a Joint Income-wealth Approach
Dmitry Petrov Dóbrikov (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain) and Marina Romaguera de la Cruz (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Spain)- Proposal
5- Relative Measurement of Economic Security
Alessandro Gallo (University of Bologna, Italy), Silvia Pacei (University of Bologna, Italy) and Maria Rosaria Ferrante (University of Bologna, Italy) – Proposal
6- Measurement of Economic Insecurity in the European Union between 2005 and 2020
Máté Mogyorósi (Hungarian Central Statistical Office), Klaudia Máténé Bella (Hungarian Central Statistical Office), Ildikó Ritzlné Kazimir (Hungarian Central Statistical Office) and Tímea Cseh (Hungarian Central Statistical Office) – Proposal
12:30-14:00, Lunch
14:00-17:30, Concurrent Sessions 7A1-2, 7B1-2, 7C1-2, 7D1-2
Session 7A-1, Income & Wealth (livestream)
Organizer: Program Committee
14:00-15:30
1- Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977–2018
Stephen Jenkins (LSE) and Nicolas Hérault (University of Melbourne)- Proposal
Moshe Justman (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) and Hadas Stiassnie (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) – Proposal
3- The Value of Unpaid Child Care and Paid Employment by Gender: What are the Impacts of Low-fee Universal Childcare Program?
Wulong Gu (Statistics Canada) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 7A-2, New Insights from Micro-Data and Innovative Data Sources (livestream)
16:00-17:30
1- Why Do Europeans Save? Micro-Evidence from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey
Charles Yuji Horioka (Kobe University, Japan) and Luigi Ventura (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)- Proposal
2- Understanding the Geography of Women’s Labor Market Outcomes
3- Using New Methods and Data Sources to Improve Economic Statistics
David Curran (UK Office of National Statistics) and Tony Zemaitis (The Turing Institute, United Kingdom) –Proposal
Session 7B-1, Reducing Gaps between Micro and Macro Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth in Compiling Distributional National Accounts III
Organizers: David Johnson (University of Michigan, United States) and Jorrit Zwijnenburg (OECD)
14:00-15:30
Sofie R. Waltl (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) & Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria), Denisa Naidin (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) & University of Luxembourg) and Michael H. Ziegelmeyer (Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) & Munich Center for the Economics of Aging(MEA), Germany) – Proposal
2- Distributional National Accounts for Australia
Matthew Fisher-Post (Paris School of Economics, World Inequality Lab, France), Nicolas Herault (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Roger Wilkins (University of Melbourne, Australia) – Proposal
3- Closing the Gap. How to Estimate Inter-household Data Transfers in Income Statistics
Jon Epland (Statistics Norway), Tor Morten Normann (Statistics Norway) and Mads Ivar Kirkeberg (Statistics Norway) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 7B-2, Economic Insecurity: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
Organizers: Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg), Nicholas Rohde (Griffiths University, Australia) and Barry Watson (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
16:00-17:30
1- First Out, Last In amid COVID-19: Employment Vulnerability of Youths in Arab Countries
Vladimir Hlasny (UN ESCWA) and Shireen AlAzzawi (Santa Clara University, United States) – Proposal
2- The Double Hazard: Health Problems, Covid-19 and Economic Insecurity
Črt Kostevc (University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia) and Tjaša Redek (University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia) – Proposal
3- The Connection between Poverty and Good Health
Yafit Alfandari (Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel) and Tzilla Sade (Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel) – Proposal
Session 7C-1, Housing
Organizer: Program Committee
14:00-15:30
1- Warning:Some Transaction Prices can be Detrimental to your House Price Index
Robert J. Hill (University of Graz, Austria), Norbert Pfeifer (University of Graz, Austria), Miriam Steurer (University of Graz, Austria) and Radoslaw Trojanek (Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland) – Proposal
2- How Do Homes Transfer Across The Income Distribution? The Role of Local Supply Constraints
Alicia N. Rambaldi (University of Queensland, Australia) and James Hansen (University of Queensland, Australia) – Proposal
3- Aging and Housing Prices
Chihiro Shimizu (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Tomoo Inoue (Seikei University, Japan), Yongheng Deng (Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) and Kiyohiko Nishimura (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 7C-2, Covid-19
16:00-17:30
1- Investigating Businesses’ Responses to COVID via Web Crawling
Charlotte Chunming Meng (National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), United Kingdom), John Forth (City University of London, United Kingdom) and Rebecca Riley (King’s College London, United Kingdom) –Proposal
2- The Effects of Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Emergency on Household Disposable Incomes
Conchita D’Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg), Andrew Clark (PSE-CNRS), Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg) and Giorgia Menta (LISER, Luxembourg) – Proposal
3- The Impact of the Pandemic on Children in Public Schools from Low-income Households
Karan Singhal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad) and Ankur Sarin (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad) – Proposal
Session 7D-1, New Developments in Poverty Measurement with a Focus on National Statistical Office Efforts V
Organizers: Shatakshee Dhongde (Georgia Tech, United States) and Thesia Garner (BLS, United States)
14:00-15:30
1- China’s Urban Poor – Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants 2013 and 2018
Bjorn A. Gustafsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Ding Sai (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) – Proposal
2- The Sensitivity of the Profile of Global Poverty to the Per-capita Allocation Rule
Dean Jolliffe (World Bank) and Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah (World Bank) – Proposal
3- Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements
Hai-Anh H. Dang (World Bank), Talip Kilic (World Bank), Calogero Carletto and Kseniya Abanokova( World Bank) – Proposal
15:30-16:00, Break
Session 7D-2, Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution around the World III
Organizers: Michail Moatsos (Utrecht University, the Netherlands and World Inequality Database) and Simon Toussaint (Utrecht University, the Netherlands and World Inequality Database)
16:00-17:30
1- Household Wealth and Its Distribution in the Netherlands, 1854–201
Michail Moatsos (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Simon Toussaint (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Amaury de Vicq (Paris School of Economics, France & Groningen University, the Netherlands) and Tim van der Valk (Ministry of Finance, the Netherlands) – Proposal
2- The Sky and the Stratosphere: Concentrated Wealth in India During the ‘Lost Decade’
Rishabh Kumar (University of Massachusetts, United States) and Ishan Anand (OP Jindal University, India) – Abstract
3- Global Wealth Dynamics
Clara Martínez-Toledano (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Thomas Blanchet (UC Berkeley, United States), Luis Bauluz (University of Bonn, Germany) and Alice Sodano (World Inequality Lab, France) – Proposal
18:30, Reception
19:00, Farewell Dinner