Consumption, Income, and the Well-Being of Families and Children
May 4-5, 2006
Washington, DC.
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Thursday May 4
9:00-10:00: Continental Breakfast
10:00-10:15: Introductions and Overview of the Conference
10:15-11:55: Session 1
Chair: Rebecca Blank, University of Michigan
10:15-11:05: From
Micro to Macro, from Poor to Rich: Consumption and Income in the UK and
the US Orazio
P. Attanasio, Erich Battistin, and Andrew Leicester
Discussant: Chris
Carroll, Johns Hopkins University
11:05-11:55: An Assessment of the Income and Expenses of America’s Low-Income Families Using
Survey Data from the National Survey of America’s Families. Gregory
Acs and Austin Nichols
Discussant:
Patricia Ruggles, National Academy of Sciences
11:55-1:20: Lunch
1:20-3:00 Session 2
Chair: Donald Oellerich, Department of Health and Human Services, ASPE
1:20-2:10: Income,
Consumption, and Well-Being Among Poor Elderly. Kerwin
Charles, Sheldon Danziger, Laurie Pounder, Bob Schoeni
Discussant:
Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation
2:10-3:00: Poverty in the U.S. Based on NAS Recommendations: Income and Expenditures Thesia I. Garner,
Kathleen Short
Discussant:
Gary Burtless, Brookings Institution
3:00-3:20: Break
3:20-5:00 Session 3
Chair: John Iceland, University of Maryland
3:20-4:10: Studying
Consumption with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Comparisons
with the Consumer Expenditure Survey and an Application to
the Intergenerational Transmission of Well-being. Kerwin
Charles, Sheldon Danziger, Geng Li, Bob Schoeni
Discussant:
Susan Mayer, University of Chicago
4:10-5:00: Assessing
Parental Expenditures on Children in Low-Income, Ethnically
Diverse and Immigrant Families. Julieta
Lugo-Gil and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Discussant:
Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution
5:00-6:00: Reception
Friday May 5
8:00-9:00: Continental Breakfast
9:00-12:00 Session 4
Chair: John Weicher, The Hudson Institute
9:00-9:50: Three
Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty. Bruce Meyer and
Jim Sullivan
Discussant:
Steven Haider, Michigan State University
9:50-10:40: Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime? Neeraj Kaushal, Columbia University; Qin Gao, Fordham University; Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Discussant:
Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation
10:40-11:10: Break
11:10-12:00: The
Retirement Consumption Conundrum: Evidence from a
Consumption Survey. Jonathan
Fisher, David S. Johnson, Joseph Marchand, Timothy M.
Smeeding, and Barbara Boyle Torrey
Discussant:
Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College
12:00-1:20: Lunch
1:20-3:00: Session 5
Chair: Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
2:10-3:00: How Well Can We Measure the Well-Being of the Poor Using Food Expenditure? Tom
DeLeire and Helen Levy
Discussant:
Sanders Korenman, Baruch College
2:10-3:00: Over-Spending:
Who, How, and Why? Kerwin
Charles, Geng Li, and Bob Schoeni
Discussant:
Mel Stephens, Carnegie Mellon University
3:00-3:30: Closing comments and Discussion
Robert Schoeni, University of Michigan