Reports and Publications

*NEW* “AEAStat/CGR Brief on the Proposal to Amend the U.S. Tax Code to Give BEA and BLS Access to Certain Business Tax-Return Data,” November 2024
“The Evolving Federal Data Ecosystem: New Opportunities for Economic Research?” July 8, 2024 (Summary of a joint AEAStat/CGR Working Session held at the 2024 ASSA meetings)
“AEAStat Statement on Implications of New Privacy Protection Methods for Economic Research,” April 2024
“Implications of New Privacy Protection Methods for Economic Research,” June 16, 2023 (Summary of an AEAStat Working Session held at the 2023 ASSA meetings)
“AEA White Paper on Data Synchronization,” June 2023*
“AEA Statement on Data Synchronization,” June 2023*
“Updating National Economic Statistics with Real Time Data: Challenges and Opportunities,” April 26, 2022 (Summary of an AEAStat Working Session held at the 2022 ASSA meetings)
“How Data Sync Can Save U.S. Official Statistics,” September 22, 2021*
“Economic Measurement of Consequences of Systemic Racism: Challenges and Opportunities,” May 17, 2021
“Measuring the Economic Effects of Systemic Racism and Discrimination,” March 1, 2021 (Summary of a joint AEAStat/National Economic Association Working Session held at the 2021 ASSA meetings)
“Statement on the Need for Accurate and Reliable Data from the 2020 Decennial Census,” June 26, 2021*
“Successful Private Firm-Academic Researcher Arrangements for Access to and Replicable Use of Private Data,” March 27, 2020
“Principles and Prerequisites for an Effective Move of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the Commerce Department,” December 4, 2019*
“Statement of Support for Maintaining the Statistical and Scientific Integrity of the USDA’s Economic Research Service,” May 30, 2019
“Statement of Support for Moving the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the Department of Commerce,” November 5, 2018*
“American Economic Association Statement on Principles of Economic Measurement,” April 26, 2018

* Joint with the AEA Committee on Government Relations