PIR Publications

Publications and Working Papers

2003-2007

  • Bradley, Ralph. "Analytical Bias Reduction for Small Samples in the US Consumer Price Index," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2007.
  • Bradley, Ralph.  "Can Health Care Claims Data Improve the Estimation of the Medical CPI?," joint with Xong S, Marder W. and Conklin J., International Conference on Index Number Theory and the Measurement of Prices and Productivity, ed Nakamura A. and Diewert E.  Forthcoming, National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Erickson, Timothy. "An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods" (with Ariel Pakes). 
  • Erickson, Timothy. "Equilibrium Market Dynamics and the Measurement of Inflation and Quality Change" (with Patricia Langohr). 
  • Greenlees, John and Robert McClelland. "Price Differentials Across Outlets in Consumer Price Index Data, 2002-2006,", presented at the Tenth Meeting of the InternationalWorking Group on Price Indices, Ottawa, Canada, October 11, 2007.
  • Verbrugge, Randal. "The Puzzling Divergence of Aggregate Rents and User Costs, 1980-2004." Working Paper, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Verbrugge, Randal. "The Puzzling Divergence of Aggregate Rents and User Costs, 1980-2004: Summary and Extensions" (with Thesia Garner) in Price and Productivity Measurement, Vol. I: Housing, Eds. W. Erwin Diewert, Bert M. Balk, Dennis Fixler, Kevin J. Fox and Alice O. Nakamura, Trafford Press, forthcoming 2007. (Also available as BLS Working Paper 409)
  • Verbrugge, Randal. "Do the CPI's Utilities Adjustments for OER Distort Inflation Measurement?" Working Paper, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Verbrugge, Randal. "Explaining the Rent-OER Inflation Divergence, 1999-2006" (with Rob Poole). BLS Working Paper 410.
  • Verbrugge, Randal. "Improving the CPI's Age-Bias Adjustment: Leverage, Disaggregation and Model-Averaging" (with Joshua Gallin). BLS Working Paper 411.
  • Verbrugge, Randal. "Determinants of Rent Changes: Location, Location, Location?" (with Dorfman, Johnson, Marsh, Poole, Shoemaker) Working Paper, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Garner, Thesia. "The CE and the PCE: A Comparison" (2006). Monthly Labor Review, September 2006. 
  • Garner, Thesia, and Kathleen Short. "Economic Well-Being Based on Income, Consumer Expenditures and Personal Assessments of Minimum Needs" (2004)  BLS Working Paper 381, March 2006.
  • Greenlees, John. "The BLS Response to the Boskin Commission Report," International Productivity Monitor, Number 12 (Spring 2006), pp. 23-41.
  • Verbrugge, Randal. "The CPI is Not A Constant-Standard-of-Living Compensation: What You Don’t Know About Cost-of-Living Indexes" (with Greg Kurtzon). Working Paper, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Bradley, Ralph. "Pitfalls of using Unit Values as a Price Measure or Price Index," Journal of Social and Economic Measurement, 2005.
  • Greenlees, John. "Introducing the Chained Consumer Price Index," (with Robert Cage and Patrick Jackman), in International Working Group on Price Indices (Ottawa Group): Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting (Thierry Lacroix, ed.). Paris: INSEE, 2003, pp. 213-246.
  • Greenlees, John. "Round Table Remarks: Scanner Data in Official Statistics," in Scanner Data and Price Indexes (Robert Feenstra and Matthew Shapiro, eds.). NBER Studies in Income and Wealth 64, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. 113-116. 

1999-2002

  • Bradley, R. "Price Index Estimation Using Price Imputation for Unsold Item." in Feenstra, R. and Shapiro, M., eds. Scanner Data and Price Indexes, NBER, 2002, pp349-379.
  • Erickson, Timothy and Whited, Toni M. "Two-Step GMM Estimation of the Errors-in-Variables Model Using High-Order Moments." Econometric Theory, June 2002, 18(3), pp. 776-99.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Short, Kathleen. "Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Expenses: What Do They Tell Us about 'Minimum Living' Thresholds and Equivalence Scales?" in John A. Bishop and Yoram Amiel, eds., Inequality, Poverty and the Redistribution of Income, Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 10, New York: Elsevier Science, Forthcoming.
  • Garner, Thesia I., Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, and Sastre, Mercedes. "The Influence of Demographic and Household Specific Price Indices on Consumption Based Inequality and Welfare: A Comparison of Spain and the United States." Southern Economic Journal, forthcoming.
  • Garner, Thesia and Stewart, Kenneth J. "Consumer Price Index and COLAs" in David J. Ekerdt, ed., Encyclopedia of Aging, Macmillan Reference USA, an Imprint of the Gale Group, New York, 2002.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Short, Kathleen "Experimental Poverty Measures Under Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenditures." Monthly Labor Review, August 2002, pp. 3-13.
  • Greenlees, John. "Consumer Price Indexes: Methods for Quality and Variety Change," Statistical Journal of the United Nations ECE, 17 (2000), pp. 59-74.
  • Erickson, Timothy. "Constructing Instruments for Regressions With Measurement Error When No Additional Data Are Available: Comment." Econometrica, January 2001, 69(1), pp 221-22.
  • Garner, Thesia I., Iceland, J., Johnson, David S., and Short, K. "Are Children Worse Off? Evaluating Child Well-being Using the New (and Improved) Measure of Poverty." Journal of Human Resources, 2001, Vol. 36:2, 2001, pp. 398-412.
  • Greenlees, John.  "The U.S. CPI and the Cost-of-Living Objective," presented at the Joint ECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices in Geneva, Switzerland, November 2, 2001.
  • Greenlees, John. "Random Errors and Superlative Indexes," presented at the Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association in San Diego, California, July 8, 1999. Reprinted as Bureau of Labor Statistics Working Paper 343, March 2001.
  • Greenlees, John. "The U.S. CPI and the Cost-of-Living Objective," presented at the Joint ECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices in Geneva, Switzerland, November 2, 2001.
  • Jain, R. "A State Space Model-Based Method of Seasonal Adjustment." Vol. 124: 7, July 2001
  • Johnson, David S. "Book review: Consumption and Social Welfare: Living standards and their distribution in the United States" (by Daniel T. Slesnick). Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 39:3, Sept. 2001.
  • Johnson, David S., Rogers, John, and Tan, Lucilla. "A Century of Family Budgets in the United States." Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 124:5, May 2001.
  • Kokoski, Mary. "Using Hedonic Methods for Quality Adjustment in the CPI: The Consumer Audio Products Component," (with K. Waehrer and P. Rozaklis), BLS Working Paper 344, 2001. 
  • McClelland, Robert. Do Prices Rise Uniformly Across Regions? with Dennis Fixler Center for Applied Economic Research Working Paper June 2001
  • To, Theodore and Burke, Andrew. "Can Reduced Entry Barriers Worsen Market Performance?" International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2001, 19(5), pp. 695-704.
  • Zadrozny, Peter and Chen, Baoline. "Analytic Derivatives of the Matrix Exponential for Estimation of Linear Continuous-Time Models," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2001) 25, 1867-1879.
  • Zadrozny, Peter and Chen, Baoline. "Real-Time Quarterly Signal-Plus-Noise Model for Estimating 'True' GDP," American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section 2001.
  • Bradley, R. "Finite Sample Effects in the Construction of Price Index." Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 17, no. 3, 2000.
  • Erickson, Timothy and Whited, Toni M. "Measurement Error and the Relationship Between Investment and Q." Journal of Political Economy, October 2000, 108(5), pp. 1027-57.
  • Erickson, Timothy. "The Ambiguous Effect of New and Improved Goods on the Cost-of-Living." Economics Letters, August 2000, 68(2), pp. 143-7.
  • Greenlees, John. "Consumer Price Indexes: Methods for Quality and Variety Change," Statistical Journal of the United Nations ECE, 17 (2000), pp. 59-74.
  • Johnson, David S., Lino, Mark. "Teenagers: Employment and Contributions to Family Spending," Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 123:9, September 2000.
  • Johnson, David S. "Economic and Social Conditions of Children and the Elderly," Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 123:4, April, 2000.
  • Verbrugge, Randal. "Risk Aversion, Learning Spillovers, and Path Dependent Economic Growth." Economics Letters, 2000, 68(1), pp. 197-202.
  • Verbrugge, Randal and Sarangi, Sudipta. "Price Discrimination in Rental Markets." Economics Letters, 2000, 69(2), pp. 153-158.
  • Zadrozny, Peter and Baoline Chen. "Estimation of Capital and Technology with a Dynamic Economic Model," with Baoline Chen, American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section (2000), 173-178.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Rozaklis, Patricia. "Accounting for Owner Occupied Housing in Poverty: Focus on Thresholds." American Statistical Association (ASA) Proceedings of the Section on Government Statistics and Section on Social Statistics, 1999, Baltimore, Maryland. American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA, 1999, pp. 33-35.
  • Kokoski, Mary, Moulton, Brent, and Zieschang, Kimberly. "Interarea Price Comparisons for Heterogeneous Goods and Several Levels of Commodity Aggregation," in Alan Heston and Robert Lipsey, eds. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, NBER studies in Income and Wealth. Univ of Chicago Press, 1999 pp. 123-170.
  • Short, Kathleen, Garner, Thesia I., Johnson, David S. and Doyle, Patricia. Experimental Poverty Measures: 1990 to 1997. Current Population Reports, Consumer Income, P60-205. U.S. Census Bureau. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 1999.
  • Zadrozny, Peter and Stuart Scott. "Aggregation and Model-Based Methods in Seasonal Adjustment of Labor Force Series," American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section (1999), 156-161.

Previous Years

  • Blanciforti, Laura A. and Garner, Thesia I. "Household Income Reporting: An Analysis of U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data." Journal of Official Statistics, 10(1), 1994, pp. 69-91.
  • Bradley, R., Cook, B., Leaver, S., and Moulton, B. "An Overview of the Research on Potential Uses of Scanner Data." In Proceedings of the Third meeting of the International Working Group on Price Indexes, 1997, 169-182.
  • Bradley, R. "Potential Benefits form the Use of Scanner Data." American Statistical Association Proceedings, 1996.
  • Bradley, R. "Growth of U.S. Health Care Spending." Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 12, no. 3, October 1994. pp45-56.
  • Erickson, Timothy. "Restricting Regression Slopes in the Errors-in-Variables Model by Bounding the Error Correlation." Econometrica, July 1993, 61(4), pp. 959-69.
  • Erickson, Timothy. "Proper Posteriors from Improper Priors for an Unidentified Errors-in-Variables Model." Econometrica, November 1989, 57(6), pp. 1299-1316.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Dardis, Rachel. "Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of End-Stage Renal Disease Treatments." Medical Care, 25(1), January 1987, pp. 25-34
  • Garner, Thesia I. and De Vos, Klaas. "An Evaluation of Subjective Poverty Definitions Comparing Results from the U. S. and the Netherlands." Review of Income and Wealth, 37(3), September 1991, pp. 267-285.
  • Garner, Thesia I. "Another Look at the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey: A Comparison of the 1972-73 Survey and the Continuing Survey Methodologies," in
  • Vickie L. Hampton, ed., American Council on Consumer Interests 34th Annual Conference, April 1988, Chicago, Illinois, The Proceedings. Columbia, Missouri: American Council on Consumer Interests, 1988, pp. 159-165.
  • Garner, Thesia I. "The Consumer Expenditure Survey: Methodological Issues for Today and Tomorrow." Family Economics Review, 1(3), August 1988.
  • Garner, Thesia I. "The Consumer Expenditure Survey: Methodological Issues for Today and Tomorrow." Annual Agricultural Outlook Conference Proceedings '88. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1988.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Blanciforti, Laura. "Household Income Report Completeness: An Analysis of U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data." American Statistical Association (ASA) Proceedings of the Section on Economic and Business Statistics 1991, Atlanta, GA., American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA, 1992.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Blanciforti, Laura. "Reporting of Household Income: Complete Versus Incomplete Response." Bureau of the Census Third Annual Research Conference, March 29-April 1, 1987 Proceedings. Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C., 1987.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Blanciforti, Laura. "Income Reporting in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey," in Vickie L. Hampton, ed., American Council on Consumer Interests 33rd Annual Conference, April 1-4, 1987, Denver, Colorado, The Proceedings, Columbia, Missouri, 1987.
  • Garner, Thesia I.; Hogarth, Jeanne M.; Miller, Richard D.; Passero, Willilam, and Sedransk, Nell. "Data Comparability Among Federal Household Surveys," in Robert N. Mayer, ed., Enhancing Consumer Choice. Columbia, Missouri: American Council on Consumer Interests, 1991, pp. 525-539
  • Garner, Thesia I., and Lippert, Alice. "The Consumer Expenditure Survey: Information Exchange and Overview,"in Karen P. Schnittgrund, ed., American Council on Consumer Interests 31st Annual Conference, March 1985, Forth Worth, Texas, the Proceedings. Columbia, Missouri: American Council on Consumer Interests, 1985, pp. 288-289.
  • Garner, Thesia; Okrasa, Wlodzimierz; Smeeding, Timothy, and Torrey, Barbara Boyle. "Household Surveys of Economic Status in Eastern Europe: An Evaluation," in Susan Powers, ed., Proceedings from the Conference on Economic Statistics for Economies in Transition: Eastern Europe in the 1990's, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Eurostat, 1994, pp. 309-348.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Shipp, Stephanie. "Consumer Expenditures in the U.S.: Survey Description and Distributional Analyses," in C. Dagum and M. Zenga, eds., Studies in Contemporary Economics: Income and Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Poverty. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1990, pp. 285-300.
  • Garner, Thesia, I and Zieschang, Kimberly D. "Weighting the Consumer Expenditure Survey Data: The GLS Study," in Karen P. Schnittgrund, ed., American Council on Consumer Interests 32th Annual Conference, April 9-12 1986, St. Louis, Missouri, The Proceedings. Columbia, Missouri: American Council on Consumer Interests, 1986, pp. 179-184.
  • Garner, Thesia I.; Miller, Richard D., and Kimberly D., and Miller, Richard D. "Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey Data: Directions for Future Research." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 15(3-4). 1989.
  • Garner, Thesia I. and Phipps, Shelley. "Are Equivalence Scales the Same for the United States and Canada?" Review of Income and Wealth, 40(1), March 1994, pp. 1-17.
  • Garner, Thesia I., Johnson, David S., Shea, Martina, and Short, Kathleen. "Poverty Measurement Research Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation." American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 88(2), May 1998, pp. 352-356.
  • Garner, Thesia I., Johnson, David S., Shea, Martina, and Short, Kathleen. "Putting the Experimental Poverty Measure into Practice." FOCUS, 19(2), Spring 1998, pp. 16-20
  • Greenlees, John. "Incorporating a Geometric Mean Formula into the CPI," (with Kenneth Dalton and Kenneth Stewart), Monthly Labor Review, Volume 121 (October 1998), pp. 3-7.
  • Greenlees, John. "Measurement Issues in the Consumer Price Index," (with Katharine Abraham, Robert Baskin, Dennis Fixler, Patrick Jackman, Mary Kokoski, Sylvia Leaver, Robert McClelland, Karin Moses, Brent Moulton, Marshall Reinsdorf, and Kenneth Stewart), Statistical Journal of the United Nations ECE, 15 (1998), pp. 1-36.
  • Greenlees, John. "Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index," (with Katharine G. Abraham and Brent R. Moulton), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 12 (Winter 1998), pp. 27-36.
  • Greenlees, John. "Expenditure Weight Updates and Measured Inflation," in Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the International Working Group on Price Indices (B. M. Balk , ed.). Statistics Netherlands, 1998, pp. 57-64.
  • Jain, R. "Measurement Error and State space Model Based Method of Seasonal Adjustment: Some Empirical Results." Published in the 1998 Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.
  • Jain, R. "Automatic Outlier Detection In Seasonal Adjustment Methods." Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1997.
  • Jain, R. "Trading Day and Easter Holiday In Seasonal Adjustment Methods." Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1996.
  • Jain, R. "Comparative Performance of State Space Model-Based and ARIMA Model-Based Methods of Seasonal Adjustment." Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1995.
  • Jain, R. "The Seasonal Adjustment of the Consumer Price Indexes of Women's Apparel: An application of State Space Model-Based Approach to Intervention Analysis." Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1993.
  • Johnson, David S. and Garner, T. "The Estimation of Unique Equivalence Scales." Proceedings of the 1993 ASA Winter Conference, 1994.
  • Johnson, David S. and Garner, Thesia I. "Unique Equivalence Scales: Estimation and Implications for Distributional Analysis." Journal of Income Distribution, 4(2), 1994/1995, pp. 215-234.
  • Johnson, David S., Shipp, Stephanie, and Garner, Thesia I. "Developing Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure Data, " in American Statistical Association (ASA) Proceedings of the Section on Government and Social Statistics, 1997, Anaheim, California. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 1997, pp. 28-37.
  • Johnson, David S, McClelland, R. and Jaditz, T. "Another Look at Evidence on the Distribution of Certain Speculative Prices." International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 1993, Vol. 3:3.
  • Johnson, David S. and McClelland, R. "A General Nonparametric Test for Independence and Applications." Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1998, 13:6.
  • Johnson, David S. "Equivalence Scales and the Distribution of Well-being Across and Within Households," in The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production: International Perspectives (Aldi Hagenaars memorial volume), S. Jenkins, A. Kapteyn and B. vanPraag editors, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • Kokoski, Mary and McClelland, Robert. "Econometric Issues in the Analysis of Charitable Giving." Public Finance Quarterly, October, 1994, 22 (4), pp. 498-517.
  • Kokoski, Mary. "Indices of Household Welfare and the Value of Leisure Time. "Review of Economic and Statistics. February, 1987, 69 (1), pp. 83-89.
  • Kokoski, Mary. "Problems in the Measurement of Consumer Cost-of-Living Indexes." Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, January, 1987, 5 (1), pp. 39-46.
  • McClelland, Robert. Small Sample Bias in Geometric Mean and Seasoned CPI Component Indexes with Marshall Reinsdorf, July 1997
  • McClelland, Robert. Price Dispersion And Cost-of-Living Indices BLS Working Paper 293, September 1997
  • McClelland, Robert. Evaluating Functional Form Bias in Various Indexes Using Simulations BLS Working Paper 289, January 1997
  • McClelland, Robert. On the Use of the Geometric Mean and Laspeyres Formulas in the CPI July 1998

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