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600: Democratic Aggregation: Issues and Implications for Consumer Price Indexes

Robert Martin

559: Sources of Increases in Time Alone during the COVID Pandemic: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Harley Frazis

558: Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

Glenn Blackwood, Cindy Cunningham, Matthew Dey, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, Rachel Nesbit, Sabrina Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Cody Tuttle and Zoltán Wolf

557: Distribution of U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures for 2019: A Prototype Based on Consumer Expenditure Survey Data

Thesia I. Garner, Robert Martin, Brett Matsumoto and Scott Curtin

555: Disentangling Rent Index Differences: Data, Methods, and Scope

Brian Adams, Lara Loewenstein, Hugh Montag and Randal Verbrugge

553: The Impact of Remote Work on Local Employment, Business Relocation, and Local Home Costs

Michael Dalton, Matthew Dey and Mark Loewenstein

552: How Robust are Robust Measures of PCE Inflation?

Sergio Ocampo, Raphael Schoenle and Dominic Smith

551: The Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets and Inequality

Joe Piacentini, Harley Frazis, Peter B. Meyer, Michael Schultz and Leo Sveikauskas

550: Some Facts about Concentrated Labor Markets in the United States

Elizabeth Handwerker and Matthew Dey

549: Effects of the Expanded Child Tax Credit on Household Expenditures:Preliminary Intent-to-Treat Estimates from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Sophie M. Collyer, Thesia Garner, Neeraj Kaushal, Jiwan Lee, Jake Schild, Jane Waldfogel and Christopher T. Wimer

548: Building a Consumption Poverty Measure: Initial Results Following Recommendations of a Federal Interagency Working Group

Grayson Armstrong, Caleb Cho, Thesia I Garner, Brett Matsumoto, Juan Munoz and Jake Schild

547: Price-Setting During the Covid Era

Hugh Montag and Daniel Villar

545: Why was Labor Productivity Growth So High during the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Role of Labor Composition

Jay Stewart

544: Household Spending Responses to the Economic Impact Payments of 2020: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Jonathan Parker, Jake Schild, Laura Erhard and David S. Johnson

543: Producing Quality Adjusted Hospital Price Indexes

Brett Matsumoto

542: Putting the Paycheck Protection Program into Perspective: An Analysis Using Administrative and Survey Data

Michael Dalton

541: Productivity Dispersion, Entry, and Growth in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, Sabrina Pabilonia, Jay Stewart and Zoltán Wolf

540: Consumer Response to Economic Impact Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Role of Subjective Assessments of Well-Being: A View from the U.S. Using a Rapid Response Survey

Thesia Garner and Jake Schild

539: Alternative Capital Asset Depreciation Rates for U.S. Capital and Multifactor Productivity Measures

Michael D. Giandrea, Robert J. Kornfeld, Peter B. Meyer and Susan G. Powers

538: How large are revisions to estimates of quarterly labor productivity growth?

Kendra Asher, John Glaser, Peter B. Meyer, Jay Stewart and Jerin Varghese

537: Experimental CPI for lower and higher income households

Josh Klick and Anya Stockburger

536: The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic using Business and Household Survey Microdata

Michael Dalton, Jeffrey A. Groen, Mark A. Loewenstein, David S. Piccone and Anne E. Polivka

535: On the Welfare Costs of Perceptions Biases

Hugh Montag

534: The Problem with Normalizing Preferences that Change in a Cost-of-Living Index

Gregory Kurtzon

533: Location, Location, Structure Type: Rent Divergence within Neighborhoods

Brian Adams and Randal Verbrugge

532: An Update on Employment changes by employer size during the COVID-19 pandemic: a look at the Current Employment Statistics survey microdata

Michael Dalton, Elizabeth Handwerker and Mark A. Loewenstein

531: Changing Tastes Versus Specification Error in Cost-of-Living Measurement

Robert Martin

530: Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences in Productivity

Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, Sabrina Pabilonia, Jay Stewart and Zoltán Wolf

529: Unretirement in the 2010s: Prevalence, Determinants, and Outcomes

Kevin Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea and Joseph F. Quinn

528: Differential Initial Impacts of COVID-19 on the Employment and Hours of the Self-employed

Charlene Kalenkoski and Sabrina Pabilonia

527: Changing the Housing Share of Poverty Thresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure and Equivalence Scales: Does Consumer Unit Size Matter?

Trudi Renwick and Thesia I. Garner

526: The Evolution of U.S. Retail Concentration

Dominic Smith and Sergio Ocampo

525: An Alternative Formula for Elementary Producer Price Indexes

Robert Martin, Andy Sadler, Sara Stanley, William Thompson and Jonathan Weinhagen

524: Labor Market Effects of Local Spread of COVID-19

Michael Dalton

523: Who Telecommutes? Where is the Time Saved Spent?

Harley Frazis

522: Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Growing Wage Inequality in the United States

Elizabeth Handwerker

521: Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel’s Instrumental Variables Method

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua Pinkston and Jay Stewart

520: Differences across Place and Time in Household Expenditure Patterns: Implications for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales

Angela Daley, Thesia I. Garner, Shelley Phipps and Eva Sierminska

519: Subjective Equivalence Scales and Income Poverty in Eastern vs Western European Countries

Martina Mysíková, Tomas Zelinsky, Thesia I. Garner and Kamila Fialova

518: Measuring Export Price Movements with Administrative Trade Data

Susan E. Fleck and Don A. Fast

517: Inequality Aversion vs Altruism: Experimental Evidence

Jake Schild

516: WEIGHTED-COVARIANCE FACTOR DECOMPOSITION OF VARMA MODELS APPLIED TO FORECASTING QUARTERLY U.S. REAL GDP AT MONTHLY INTERVALS

Peter Zadrozny and Baoline Chen

515: Revisiting taste change in cost-of-living measurement

Robert Martin

514: A New Vehicles Transaction Price Index: Offsetting the Effects of Price Discrimination and Product Cycle Bias with a Year-Over-Year Index

Brendan Williams and Erick Sager

513: On Job Requirements, Skill, and Wages

Matthew Dey and Mark A. Loewenstein

512: Retirement Patterns of the Early and Middle Baby Boomers

Kevin Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea and Joseph F. Quinn

511: Market-Based Inflation Expectations and Inflation Realities: A Comparison of the Treasury Breakeven Inflation (TBI) Rate Curve and the Consumer Price Index before, during, and after the Great Recession

Jonathan Church

510: Alternative Poverty Measurement for the U.S.: Focus on Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds

Thesia I. Garner and Marisa Gudrais

509: Uncertainty and Trade Elasticities

Erick Sager and Olga Timoshenko

508: The Double EMG Distribution and Trade Elasticities

Erick Sager and Olga Timoshenko