ANNOUNCEMENTS.

This section presents the topics and organizers of individual sessions at the 29th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth from August 20 to 26, 2006 in Joensuu, Finland. The Luxembourg Wealth Study is developing international standards for comparisons of micro data that are compatible with national accounts data. The session will include papers concerning measurement of wealth from both a micro and a macro point of view, methodological issues concerning micro and macro estimates, the relationship between micro and macro estimates as well as comparative studies on portfolio composition and the distribution of wealth. Stephen Jenkins and Holly Sutherland will seek papers concerned with innovative approaches to addressing the imperfections of survey data, using improvements to survey instruments and addressing the issues after data collection. David Caplan and Tim Smeeding will discuss the state of the art in the measurement of government output and productivity following these developments and discuss how the views of producers of economic statistics and the needs of policy makers can be reconciled. Miles Corak will highlight developments in the measurement of child poverty, offer comparisons in levels and changes of child poverty rates across rich and developing countries, and relate poverty and low income to the well being of children as well as their capacity to become successful adults.