The 2018 IRS/Census Workshop on Income Measurement, held on March 20, 2018, featured selected papers from authors representing many areas of the IRS, Census, and other government agencies, as well as academic and private-sector experts on income reporting, administrative records, and poverty measurement.

Opening Remarks

• Ron Jarmin (Associate Director for Economic Programs, and Performing the Non-Exclusive Functions and Duties of the Director, Census Bureau)
• Barry Johnson (IRS, Director, Statistics of Income Division)
• Maggie R. Jones (Census Bureau)

Session 1: Improving Survey Designs
Moderator: Jim Ziliak, University of Kentucky

• Reporting Accuracy of Social Security Benefits and its Implications in the Health and Retirement Study
  Irena Dushi and Howard Iams, (Social Security Administration)

• Does Encouraging Record Use for Financial Assets Improve Data Accuracy? Evidence from Administrative Data (presentation)
  Jonathan Eggleston and Lori Reader (Census Bureau)

• Improving Earnings Imputations in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
  Gary Benedetto, Rebecca Chenevert, Jonathan Eggleston, Mark Klee, Joanna Motro, and Rob Munk (Census Bureau)

• Program Confusion between SSI and Social Security: Can Payment Amounts Be Retained? (presentation)
  Katy Giefer and Joanna Motro (Census Bureau)

Session 2: Sharpening Poverty Measurement
Moderator: Trudi Renwick (Census Bureau)

• Measuring Trends in the Distribution of Annual Earnings
  David Pattison (Social Security Administration)

• Precision in Measurement: Using SNAP Administrative Records and the Transfer Income Model to Evaluate Poverty Measurement
  Kathryn Stevens, Liana Fox, and Misty Heggeness (Census Bureau)

• Price Heterogeneity and Consumption Inequality
  Luigi Pisano, Luca Riva, and Andrea Stella (Northwestern University, Brown University, Federal Reserve Board)

• Do Older Americans Have More Income Than We Think? (presentation)
  Adam Bee and Joshua Mitchell (Census Bureau)
  

Session 3: Using DER to Improve CPS Analysis
Moderator: Victoria Bryant, Internal Revenue Service

• Match Bias or Nonignorable Nonresponse? Improved Imputation and Administrative Data in the CPS ASEC
  Jonathan Rothbaum (Census Bureau)
• Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Their Earnings When She Earns More
  Misty Heggeness and Marta Murray-Close (Census Bureau)
• Aggregate Labor Market Fluidity (presentation)
  Henry Hyatt, Seth Murray, and Kristin Sandusky (Census Bureau)
• The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data (presentation)
  Kevin Rinz and John Voorheis (Census Bureau)

Session 4: Other Applications of Administrative Data
Moderator: Mary-Helen Risler, Internal Revenue Service

• Estimating the Extent of Individual Income Tax Filing Noncompliance (presentation)
  Patrick Langetieg, Mark Payne, and Alan Plumley (Internal Revenue Service)
• Household Incomes in Tax Data: Using Addresses to Move From Tax Unit to Household Income Distributions (presentation)
  Jeff Larrimore, Jacob Mortenson, and David Splinter (Federal Reserve Board, Joint Committee on Taxation)
• Job Ladders and Growth in Earnings, Hours, and Wages (presentation)
  Joyce Hahn, Henry Hyatt, and Hubert Janicki (Census Bureau)

Wrap-up

• Alan Plumley (IRS Office of Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics)