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Tuesday, 08/03/2010
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Total Alcohol Expenditure in the United States: Federal Economic Statistics and Industry Data
Gary Huang, ICF Macro ; Nebiyu Taddese, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Andrey Vinokurov, ICF Macro
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Sampling and Weighting of Commodity and Service Units for the Elementary Level of Computation of the U.S. Consumer Price Index
Mary Lee Fuxa, Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:20 AM
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An Empirical Comparison of Constrained Optimization Methods for Benchmarking Economic Time Series
Irene Brown, U.S. Census Bureau
9:35 AM
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Modeling the Dynamics of Corporate Credit Ratings: Creating a Predictive Ratings Model
Meghan Rachel Kent, North Carolina State University; Terri Anna Johnson, North Carolina State University; Nicole Bader, North Carolina State University; Jenna Rice, North Carolina State University
10:05 AM
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Experimenting with Pre-Contact Strategies for Reducing Nonresponse in an Economic Survey
Alfred David Tuttle, U.S. Census Bureau; Richard S. Hough, U.S. Census Bureau; Jeri Mulrow, National Science Foundation; Kenneth M. Pick, U.S. Census Bureau; Diane K. Willimack, U.S. Census Bureau
10:05 AM
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Frame Construction and Sample Maintenance for Current Economic Surveys
Katrina T. Washington, U.S. Census Bureau; James N. Burton, U.S. Census Bureau; Ruth Detlefsen, U.S. Census Bureau
2:20 PM
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Wednesday, 08/04/2010
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The Effect of Weights and Sampling Plans on Price Index Estimates: a Simulation Study
Daniele Toninelli, University of Bergamo; Zdenek Patak, Statistics Canada
8:35 AM
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Monitoring the Economy: An Application of Multivariate Real-Time Signal Extraction
Marc Wildi, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
8:55 AM
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What Does Realized Volatility Tell Us About Macroeconomic Fluctuations?
Zeynep Senyuz, University of New Hampshire; Marcelle Chauvet, University of California, Riverside; Emre Yoldas, Bentley University
10:50 AM
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A Symmetric, Entropy-Based, Relative and Quasi-Absolute Measure of Health Disparities: An Example Using Dental Caries in U.S. Children and Adolescents
Luisa N. Borrell, Lehman College - CUNY; Makram Talih, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
11:35 AM
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Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from Nashville's Project on Incentives in Teaching
Matthew G. Springer, Vanderbilt University; Dale Ballou, Vanderbilt University; J.R. Lockwood, RAND Corporation; Daniel F. McCaffrey, RAND Corporation
3:05 PM
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