DESIGNING NONMARKET ACCOUNTS FOR THE UNITED STATES
Interim Report
Katharine G. Abraham and Christopher Mackie, Editors
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Suggested citation: National Research Council. (2003). Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States: Interim Report. Panel to Study the Design of Nonmarket Accounts. K.G. Abraham and C. Mackie, eds. Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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PANEL TO STUDY THE DESIGN OF NONMARKET ACCOUNTS
KATHARINE G. ABRAHAM (Chair),
Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland
DORA COSTA,
Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DAVID CUTLER,
Department of Economics, Harvard University
NANCY FOLBRE,
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BARBARA FRAUMENI,
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
ROBERT E. HALL,
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
DANIEL S. HAMERMESH,
Department of Economics, University of Texas, Austin
ALAN KREUGER,
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
ROBERT MICHAEL,
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
HENRY M. PESKIN,
Edgevale Associates, Nellysford, VA
MATTHEW D. SHAPIRO,
Department of Economics, University of Michigan
BURTON A. WEISBROD,
Department of Economics, Northwestern University
CHRISTOPHER MACKIE, Study Director
MARISA GERSTEIN, Research Assistant
MICHAEL J. SIRI, Project Assistant
COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS 2002-2003
JOHN E. ROLPH (Chair),
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
JOSEPH G. ALTONJI,
Department of Economics, Yale University
ROBERT BELL,
AT&T Laboratories, Florham Park, New Jersey
LAWRENCE D. BROWN,
Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania
ROBERT M. GROVES,
Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
JOEL HOROWITZ,
Department of Economics, Northwestern University
WILLIAM KALSBEEK,
Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina
ARLEEN LEIBOWITZ,
School of Public Policy Research, University of California, Los Angeles
THOMAS A. LOUIS,
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
VIJAYAN NAIR,
Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
DARYL PREGIBON,
AT&T Laboratories, Florham Park, New Jersey
KENNETH PREWITT,
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
NORA CATE SCAHEFFER,
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
MATTHEW D. SHAPIRO,
Department of Economics, University of Michigan
ANDREW A. WHITE, Director
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