Research at BEA | Staff Biography
Aten, Bettina H.
Division:
Office of the Director
Phone:
202–606–9647
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Education
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1992
- M.B.A., Wharton School, 1986
Current Areas of Interest
- Spatial price indexes
- Multilateral aggregation methods
- Spatial econometrics
Working Papers
- How can the American Community Survey (ACS) be used to improve the imputation of Owner-Occupied Rent Expenditures?
- by Bettina Aten, Eric Figueroa and Troy Martin, February 2012
- Estimating the Price of Rents in Regional Price Parties
- by Troy Martin, Bettina Aten, and Eric Figueroa, October 2011
- Notes on Estimating the Multi-Year Regional Price Parities by 16 Expenditure Categories: 2005-2009
- Joint with Eric Figueroa and Troy Martin, May 2011
- Comparing the Consistency of Price Parities of Regions of the U.S. in an Economic Framework Approach
- Joint with Marshall Reinsdorf, August 2010
- “Estimates of State and Metropolitan Price Parities for Consumption Goods and Services in the United States, 2005”
- October 2008
- “Estimates of State Price Levels for Consumption Goods and Services: A First Brush”
- November 2007
- “Report on Interarea Price Levels”
- November 2005
Selected Publications
- Regional Price Parities by Expenditure Class, 2005-2009
- With E. Figueroa and T. Martin, Survey of Current Business, Bureau of Economic Analysis, May 2010
- Use of Country Purchasing Power Parities for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels: Potential and Limitations
- With A. Heston, Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty, edited by Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal and Joseph Stiglitz, Oxford University Press 2010
- Chaining Methods for International Real Product and Purchasing Power Comparisons, Issues and Alternatives
- with A. Heston. Purchasing Power Parities of Currencies, Recent Advances in Methods and Applications, edited by D.S. Prasada Rao, Elgar Publishing, 2009.
- Estimates of State and Metropolitan Price Levels for Consumption Goods and Services in the United States, 2005
- With R. D’Souza, Survey of Current Business, Bureau of Economic Analysis, November 2008
- Interarea Price Levels: An Experimental Methodology
- Monthly Labor Review, Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2006
- Regional Output Differences in International Perspective
- With A. Heston, Spatial Inequality and Development, edited by Ravi Kanbur and Anthony Venables, Oxford University Press, 2005
- Price Structure, the Quality Factor, and Chaining
- With A. Heston and R. Summers, Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Vol. 18, 2001
- Cities in Brazil: An Interarea Price Comparison
- International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output and Prices, edited by A. Heston and R. Lipsey, National Bureau of Economic Research, Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 61, 1999
- Does Space Matter? International Comparisons of the Prices of Tradable and Nontradables
- International Regional Science Review, Volume 20, Nos. 1&2, 1997
- Evidence of Spatial Autocorrelation in International Prices
- Review of Income and Wealth, Series 42, Number 2, June 1996
- Energy and Transportation
- With G. Hewings, The Geography of Urban Transportation, edited by Susan Hanson, Guildford Press, New York, 1995
- Real World Military Expenditures for 130 Countries in 1980 and 1985
- With A. Heston, in Economic Issues of Disarmament, edited by J.Brauer and M.Chatterji, New York University Press, New York, 1993
- Transport Choice Models and Price Elasticities by Income Groups
- Transportation Research Record, No.1396, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1993
- International Comparisons of Transport Prices and Output
- Transportation Research Record, Part II, No.1372, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1992
