The PSID has included extensive information on pensions, wealth, consumption/expenditures, health, and other relevant domains in various years since the survey began in 1968. All of these domains are measured in the last several waves. The goals of this conference are to bring together scholars...

The theme of the ACR 2008 conference is "Port of Call." Researchers from around the world will arrive in the international trading center of San Francisco, laden with a valuable cargo of ideas for sale and trade. Our theme therefore is meant to highlight the international nature of our...

In the last few decades, house prices have undergone major medium-run fluctuations in many industrialized economies. Boom-bust cycles in house prices, coupled with a substantial increase in household indebtedness, have drawn the attention of policymakers and academics towards the developments in...

Papers in all fields of interest to the IARIW, i.e. all papers that advance knowledge about income and wealth are welcome. Submissions in the following fields are particularly encouraged: input-output tables, theory and practice; PPPs; satellite accounts for non-profit institutions; and...

The overarching goal of the conference is to develop and understand basic principles that generate these flows of resources of different kind and extent. Sub-themes include consequences of family change for childhood resources and children's well-being; distribution of resources within...

The conference, which will highlight threats to the security of the payments system and explore solutions to those challenges, will cover such topics as: - Identifying security issues in the retail payments system; - Preventing and containing payments fraud; - Allocating losses when payments...

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