Despite its central role in economic productivity and the well-being of individuals and families, many aspects of the care economy are not well understood. Join us for a webinar on the National Academies report on A Data Infrastructure for Measuring the Care Economy. The report discusses how the care economy is measured in the United States, what the data gaps are, and how the data infrastructure could be strengthened. The report’s authoring committee members will present the report’s conclusions and recommendations. The presentation will be followed by an opportunity for audience questions. To submit a question during the event, please use the Q&A section of the Slido platform below. Presenters: Kosali Simon (Chair) is a distinguished professor, Paul O’Neill Chair, and Herman B Wells Endowed Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, associate vice provost for Health Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington and an executive director of the Indiana University Research Data Commons. She is also a research associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research. Simon is a health economist with interests in health and healthcare outcomes in the context of state and federal policy. Her current research mainly focuses on the impact of health insurance reform on healthcare and labor market outcomes, and on the causes and consequences of the opioid crisis. Simon is active in national leadership roles in her profession, serving on several boards and in editorial positions. She is the president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and served as president and board member of the American Society of Health Economists. Simon serves as editor for the Review of Economics and Statistics and former editor Journal of Health Economics, former co-editor for the Journal of Human Resources, and editorial board member for the American Journal of Health Economics and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland. Simon is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Jay Stewart is research fellow at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Previously, he was the senior research economist in the Division of Productivity Research and Program Development at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), where he directed and conducted research related to improving BLS productivity measures. Before joining the BLS productivity office, Stewart was a research economist in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, where he was heavily involved in all aspects of the development of the American Time Use Survey. Stewart’s research papers cover a wide range of topics related to measurement, including aspects of survey design, analysis of time-use data, childcare, and child sleep. More recently, he served on the United Nations Expert Group subgroup on measuring passive childcare. Stewart obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Pilar Gonalons-Pons is the Alber-Klingelfhofer Presidential Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology with affiliations to the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, the Population Studies Center, Population Aging Research Center, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her research examines how work, families, and public policies structure economic inequalities, including understanding the distribution and economic penalties associated with paid and unpaid care work provided to children and adults. Gonalons-Pons’ empirical work typically uses quantitative techniques and longitudinal datasets from multiple countries, and she has researched the potential and shortcomings of existing survey measures for care provision in the United States. Her work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, Social Problems, Population Development Review, and Socio-Economic Review. Gonalons-Pons has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and she was a postdoctoral fellow at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.