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At What Price? Conceptualizing and Measuring Cost-of-Living and Price Indexes (2002) / Chapter Skim
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Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 315-318

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... Census Bureau, is currently the first chairperson of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, and also serves as director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Program on Technological Change and Productivity Measurement.
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... He is a member of the Statistics Canada Services Advisory Committee, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and chairman of the Statistics Canada Advisory Committee on Prices. His fields of interest include microeconomic theory, mathematical economics, international trade, public finance, measurement economics and accounting, nonparametric estimation and smoothing methods.
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... He has been a mathematician at the RAND corporation, vice president of the Interpublic Group of Companies, president of a computer software and data processing firm, chairman of the computer sciences department at City College of New York, and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Econometric Society and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
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... Concurrently, he is dean of the Sloan School of Management, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association and, from 1989-1991, served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
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