CRIW Members Elect Karen Dynan as Chair

The members of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW) have elected Research Associate Karen Dynan of Harvard University to succeed Katharine Abraham of the University of Maryland as CRIW Chair. Dynan’s research focuses on consumer spending, household finance, and applied macroeconomics. Before moving to Harvard, she served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the US Department of the Treasury (2014–17), and was a Co-Director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. She spent almost two decades at the Federal Reserve Board, where she was the Assistant Director of the Division of Research and Statistics. Abraham, who served as CRIW Chair for nine years, is the president-elect of the American Economic Association. The CRIW membership includes more than four hundred researchers from colleges and universities, think tanks, and government statistical agencies. Each year, the CRIW organizes an annual conference on economic measurement as well as a meeting at the NBER Summer Institute.