NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life

Organizer: Alan Krueger

December 7 and 8, 2007

National Bureau of Economic Research

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Program

Friday, December 7
12:00 n	Optional Lunch at NBER.
1-3:30	Introductions
	Alan Krueger, Princeton University and NBER
	Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University
	David Schkade, University of California at San Diego
	Arthur Stone, SUNY at Stony Brook
	Norbert Schwarz, University of Michigan
	National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life
3:30-3:45	Discussion
3:45-4	Break
4-4:45	William Nordhaus, Yale University and NBER
	Measuring Real Income with Leisure and Household Production
4:45-5	Discussion
5-5:45	David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
5:45-6	Discussion
6:30 pm	Dinner
	Sandrine’s Bistro 8 Holyoke Street Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 8
8-9 AM	Breakfast
9-9:45	Richard Layard, London School of Economics
	Comment on National Time Accounting
9:45-10	Discussion
10-10:15	Break
10:15-11	George Lowenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
11 – 11:15	Discussion
11:15- 12	Steve Landefeld, Bureau of Economic Analysis
12-12:15 PM	Discussion
12:15-1:15	Lunch
1:15-2	Erik Hurst, University of Chicago
2-2:15	Discussion
2:15-3	Danny Blanchflower, Dartmouth College and NBER
	International Evidence on Well-being
3:00-3:15	Discussion
3:15-3:30	Break
3:30-4:00	Next Steps and Open Discussion
4:00	Adjourn