IARIW Major Objectives

To advance education and knowledge in the general area of income and wealth by organizing conferences, by circulating scholarly papers accessible to the general public through the Association’s website, and by publishing a quarterly journal containing research on economics and statistics.
To carry out its said objects and purposes in the following fields of interest: the definition, measurement, and analysis of national income and wealth; the distribution of income and wealth, and poverty; the development of systems of economic and social accounting and their use for economic policy; international comparisons; and other related economic and statistical matters.

Announcements

IARIW Council Member Election

The IARIW Council member election will take place this summer. Current Council terms expire at the 2026 General Conference for the four elected Council members listed below:

Wendy Li
Sanjiv Mahajan
Rebecca Riley
Jorrit Zwijnenburg

The 2026 – 2030 candidate biographies can be found here.

Voting will begin on July 14 and conclude on August 14, 2026. Ballots will be emailed to current IARIW members. If you do not receive one on July 14, please email info@iariw.org.

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. Vote for your favorite virtual issue here by August 25.

Update on IARIW Activities from the Executive Director

The latest update on IARIW activities can be found here.

Upcoming Events

39th IARIW General Conference

August 24-28, 2026

The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth welcomes abstract submissions for the 39th General Conference in Brussels, Belgium, August 24-28, 2026. Abstract submissions should be relevant to one of the 10 Themes or included in an Other category. Abstract submissions closed on October 31, 2025. Proposals will be reviewed by theme organizers and the IARIW program committee, and authors will be notified about acceptance in mid-January 2026. For more information, click here.

Past Events

65th ISI World Statistics Congress October 5-9, 2025 IARIW Session: “International Efforts to Measure Household Distributional Information in Line with Macroeconomic Aggregates” and more information can be found here.
IARIW-UEB/VNU-WB Conference October 2-3, 2025 The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), The University of Economics and Business/Vietnam National University (UEB/VNU) and the World Bank organized a special IARIW-UEB/VNU-WB conference on the importance of data generation and analysis in data-scarce contexts and policy implications for the Asia region in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 2- 3, 2025. More information can be found here. The conference program can be found here. For more information on the pre-conference training sessions click here. For information regarding accommodation click here.
IARIW-Hitotsubashi University Conference on “Population Ageing: Implications for Economic Measurement and Economic Performance”, Tokyo, Japan March 24-25, 2025 The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), in partnership with Hitotsubashi University, organized a conference entitled ”Population Ageing: Implications for Economic Measurement and Economic Performance” in Tokyo, Japan on March 24- 25, 2025. The Conference Program can be found here. For information about the conference click here. Delegates attending the IARIW conference may also be interested in attending the 8th Word KLEMS Conference being held at same venue (International House of Japan) March 27-28, check here for the conference program.
38th IARIW General Conference, London August 26-30, 2024 The 38th IARIW General Conference took place in London, England, August 26-30, 2024. The final conference program can be found here. The conference website can be found here. Information on the pre-conference training sessions is accessible here. The training sessions and the Ruggles Lecture video recordings are accessible here.
IARIW-CIGI Conference on “The Valuation of Data”, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada November 2-3, 2023 The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), in partnership with CIGI, organized a conference entitled “The Valuation of Data” in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on November 2-3, 2023. For information about the conference click here. To view the program click here To view the Conference photos click here.
64th ISI World Statistics Congress, Ottawa, Canada July 16-20, 2023 The ISI World Statistics Congresses (WSC) take place once every two years in different countries and cities/venues. Though the ISI organizes them, we work closely with the country’s National Statistics Office and Society. From July 16 to 20, 2023, the 64th WSC will take place in Ottawa, Canada. Details on the session on income distribution hosted by the IARIW, including presentations from the panel’s participants, can be found here.

65th ISI World Statistics Congress

October 5-9, 2025

IARIW Session: “International Efforts to Measure Household Distributional Information in Line with Macroeconomic Aggregates” and more information can be found here.

IARIW-UEB/VNU-WB Conference

October 2-3, 2025

The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), The University of Economics and Business/Vietnam National University (UEB/VNU) and the World Bank organized a special IARIW-UEB/VNU-WB conference on the importance of data generation and analysis in data-scarce contexts and policy implications for the Asia region in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 2- 3, 2025. More information can be found here. The conference program can be found here. For more information on the pre-conference training sessions click here. For information regarding accommodation click here.

IARIW-Hitotsubashi University Conference on “Population Ageing: Implications for Economic Measurement and Economic Performance”, Tokyo, Japan

March 24-25, 2025

The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), in partnership with Hitotsubashi University, organized a conference entitled ”Population Ageing: Implications for Economic Measurement and Economic Performance” in Tokyo, Japan on March 24- 25, 2025. The Conference Program can be found here. For information about the conference click here. Delegates attending the IARIW conference may also be interested in attending the 8th Word KLEMS Conference being held at same venue (International House of Japan) March 27-28, check here for the conference program.

38th IARIW General Conference,
London

August 26-30, 2024

The 38th IARIW General Conference took place in London, England, August 26-30, 2024. The final conference program can be found here. The conference website can be found here. Information on the pre-conference training sessions is accessible here. The training sessions and the Ruggles Lecture video recordings are accessible here.

IARIW-CIGI Conference on “The Valuation of Data”, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

November 2-3, 2023

The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), in partnership with CIGI, organized a conference entitled “The Valuation of Data” in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on November 2-3, 2023. For information about the conference click here. To view the program click here To view the Conference photos click here.

64th ISI World Statistics Congress, Ottawa, Canada

July 16-20, 2023

The ISI World Statistics Congresses (WSC) take place once every two years in different countries and cities/venues. Though the ISI organizes them, we work closely with the country’s National Statistics Office and Society. From July 16 to 20, 2023, the 64th WSC will take place in Ottawa, Canada. Details on the session on income distribution hosted by the IARIW, including presentations from the panel’s participants, can be found here.