5th IZA Labor Statistics Workshop: The Measurement of Incomes, Living Costs and Standards of Living
Program
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+++ keynote: 40 minutes +++ discussants: 5 minutes (each) +++ floor discussion: 20 minutes +++
+++presentation: 20 minutes +++ discussant: 5 minutes +++ floor discussion: 15 minutes +++
Wednesday, July 20
15:00 - 15:30
Welcome and Introductions
15:30 - 16:10
Joshua D. Merfeld (KDI School of Public Policy and Management and IZA), Jonathan Morduch (NYU)
"Poverty and Consumption Smoothing"
Discussant:
Sonalde Desai (University of Maryland)
16:10 - 16:50
Theano Kakoulidou (ESRI, Dublin), Mark Regan (ESRI, Dublin)
"How Important are the Unit of Analysis and Equivalence Scales When Measuring Income Poverty and Inequality? Evidence from Ireland"
Discussant:
Thesia Garner (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
16:50 - 17:10
Break
17:10 - 17:50
Pallavi Choudhuri (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Sonalde Desai (University of Maryland), Santanu Pramanik (National Council of Applied Economic Research)
"The Impact of Covid-19 on Household Consumption Expenditure in India"
Discussant:
Laura Caron (Columbia University)
17:50 - 18:30
Gewei Wang (Peking University), Jinquan Gong (Peking University), Yafeng Wang (Peking University), Yaohui Zhao (Peking University and IZA)
"Consumption and Poverty of Older Chinese: 2011-2020"
Discussant:
Marco Ranaldi (UCL)
18:30
Concluding Remarks
Thursday, July 21
15:00 - 15:40
Marco Ranaldi (UCL)
"Global Distributions of Capital and Labor Incomes: Capitalization of the Global Middle Class"
Discussant:
Shoghik Hovhannisyan (World Bank)
15:40 - 16:50
Keynote:
Bruce D. Meyer (University of Chicago), Derek Wu (University of Chicago), Brian Curran (University of Chicago)
"The Geographical Adjustment of Poverty Thresholds"
Discussant:
David Johnson (National Academy of Sciences)
Discussant:
Federico Perali (University of Verona)
16:50 - 17:10
Break
17:10 - 17:50
Nikolas Mittag (CERGE-EI and IZA), Pablo Celhay (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Bruce D. Meyer (University of Chicago)
"Errors in Reporting and Imputation of Government Benefits and Their Implications"
Discussant:
Katharine G. Abraham (University of Maryland and IZA)
17:50 - 18:30
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza (World Bank and IZA), Fernando Rios-Avila (Levy Institute), Flavia Sacco-Capurro (World Bank)
"Recovering Income Distribution in the Presence of Interval-Censored Data"
Discussant:
Matt Dey (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
18:30
Concluding Remarks
Friday, July 22
15:00 - 15:40
Shoghik Hovhannisyan (World Bank), Carlos Rodriguez-Castelan (World Bank), Veronica Montalva-Talledo (World Bank), Tyler Remick (George Washington University), Kersten Stamm (World Bank)
"Job Quality of Wage Employment Across Developing Countries"
Discussant:
Joshua D. Merfeld (KDI School of Public Policy and Management and IZA)
15:40 - 16:20
Federico Perali (University of Verona), Elena Dalla Chiara (University of Verona)
"Relational Well-Being and the Many Dimensions of Poverty in Italy"
Discussant:
Nikolas Mittag (CERGE-EI and IZA)
16:20 - 16:40
Break
16:40 - 17:20
Laura Caron (Columbia University), Erwin Tiongson (Georgetown University and IZA)
"Households in Transit: COVID-19 and the Changing Measurement of Welfare"
Discussant:
Theano Kakoulidou (ESRI, Dublin)
17:20 - 18:00
Sebastian Königs (OECD and IZA), Anna Vindics (OECD)
"The Geography of Income Inequalities in OECD Countries - Evidence from National Register Data"
Discussant:
Dirk Van Duym (US Bureau of Economic Analysis)
18:00
Concluding Remarks
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