Section on Methodology / Open Topic on Methodology (2 sessions)

Jennie E. Brand, University of California-Los Angeles

Scott M. Lynch, Duke University

Scott M. Lynch, Duke University

Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity of Expected Income with Short-run Income Measures: A Generalized Error-in-variables Model - Pablo Andres Mitnik, Stanford University

Hierarchical Item Response Models for Analyzing Public Opinion - Xiang Zhou, Harvard University

Mechanism-Based Models with Nonparametric Bounds: A General Strategy for Estimating Age-period-cohort Effects - Ethan Fosse, Princeton University

Standard Errors and Significance Tests for Populations - David F. Greenberg, New York University

Bryce J. Bartlett, Duke University