IARIW ROIW Anniversary Virtual Issue Ballot Survey

Vote for the Best Virtual Issue to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Review of Income and Wealth

For 75 years, the Review of Income and Wealth (ROIW) has brought together scholars on economic measurement and the study of income and wealth. As the official journal of the IARIW, the Review has served as a platform for researchers from academia, statistical agencies and international organization and has advanced the scientific debates on important topics such as the System of National Accounts (SNA), the measurement of inequality and international comparisons of well being.

To mark this milestone, the IARIW Council and ROIW Editorial Board invited all IARIW members to compile their favorite ROIW issue, drawing on the full history of ROIW articles. Please vote for your favorite issue below. Voting will conclude on August 25th. At the Member’s Meeting on August 26, the people with the highest-scoring issues will be recognized. You can see all six issues here. Each issue's link can be found below. Questions? Email us, info@iariw.org.

1.Please vote for your favorite issue below.

Ahead of Their Time: Pioneering Articles from the Review of Income and Wealth. This virtual issue brings together articles that were ahead of their time. LINK.

Measuring Progress: The Evolving Landscape of Economic
Measurement. This issue features articles by leading researchers in the field of economic measurement: Erwin Diewert, Paul Schreyer, Jan de Haan, and their co-authors. LINK.

The Evolution of Multilateral Price Indexes: From International Comparisons to Scanner Data. This virtual issue highlights key milestones in the development of multilateral price indexes published in the Review of Income and Wealth. LINK.

Nobel Laureates and the Measurement of Economic Well-Being.
Since its founding in 1951, the Review of Income and Wealth has occupied a unique place in economics. LINK

Comparing real incomes across countries. The Review is where the country-product-dummy method was born, where the aggregation problem was fought out, where the Penn World Table was published, and where the methods were later put on rigorous footing. LINK

Finding the Missing Rich: Top-Tail Corrections in Wealth Inequality Measurement. This virtual issue brings together ROIW articles that shaped the measurement of wealth inequality at the top: from survey-based baselines and long-run top-share estimates to Pareto corrections, rich-list adjustments, capitalization methods, national-accounts alignment, and generalized Pareto approaches. LINK