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 University

Market 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 (cosponsored with AEA)