The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth

What The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth does

The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) is a nonprofit professional association incorporated in Washington, D.C. under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, founded in September 1947 in conjunction with the International Statistical Institute. It operates a scholarly forum for the definition, measurement, and analysis of national income and wealth, the distribution of income and wealth, poverty measurement, systems of economic and social accounting, and international comparisons. Its customers are academic researchers and government statistical agencies; its institutional members include the World Bank, OECD, IMF, Eurostat, European Central Bank, Statistics Canada, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Statistics Austria, and the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, with a stated reach across 57 countries.

IARIW's core products are a quarterly peer-reviewed journal (the Review of Income and Wealth, published since 1966 under contract with Wiley), biennial General Conferences, periodic Special Conferences, the Ruggles Memorial Lecture series, and the Kendrick and Ruggles Prizes. The organization has no proprietary technology platform; its infrastructure consists of the iariw.org website, a Wild Apricot membership portal, and the Wiley Online Library distribution channel for journal content, with a free open archive at roiw.org covering articles from 1966 through 2022. The Association has held 24 regional and special conferences alongside its general conferences since 1949.

The business model is membership-based, community-led, and not growth-financed. Recurring revenue derives from institutional membership fees (with institutional members entitled to nominate up to three individuals for full member privileges) and journal subscription/licensing revenue from Wiley, supplemented by one-time conference registration fees. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The organization is governed by an elected Council, currently led by Executive Director David Johnson (Georgetown University), and does not have a parent company, subsidiaries, or external capital backing. The 39th General Conference is scheduled for August 24-28, 2026, in Brussels, hosted by the National Bank of Belgium.

Name

The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth

Legal name

The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth

Website

https://iariw.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1947

Operating status

Operating

Short description

The IARIW is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit scholarly association founded in 1947 that advances research on income and wealth measurement by publishing the quarterly Review of Income and Wealth journal (with Wiley), convening biennial General Conferences and special conferences, and serving approximately 40 institutional members (including the World Bank, OECD, IMF, Eurostat, and major national statistical offices) plus individual members across 57 countries.

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NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Professional Organizations (81392)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

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Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Academic & Scholarly Publishing (Journals, Monographs)

Keywords

• Income distribution research
• Wealth measurement
• National accounting
• Economic statistics
• Scholarly publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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Revenue model

1. Institutional Membership Fees: National and international statistical organizations pay institutional membership fees to support the association. Institutional Members have the right to name up to three individuals who receive full membership privileges including the Review of Income and Wealth journal and all member communications and voting rights. All employees of Institutional Members receive free online access to all articles published in the Review of Income and Wealth since 1966.
2. Conference Registration Fees: The IARIW generates revenue through registration fees for its biennial General Conferences and special conferences. Participants receive member rates for registration. The Association also organizes pre-conference training sessions, some free of charge for members.
3. Journal Subscriptions and Licensing: The Review of Income and Wealth journal generates revenue through institutional subscriptions via Wiley. Non-members pay to access articles published since 2018, while members access articles free of charge. Articles from 1966 through 2022 are available free of charge at roiw.org.

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Core offering

The IARIW is a nonprofit scholarly research association that advances knowledge in income and wealth measurement by organizing biennial General Conferences, special thematic conferences, publishing the quarterly Review of Income and Wealth journal, and providing individual and institutional membership services. Its primary deliverables are the peer-reviewed journal, conference participation, and scholarly community governance for academic and government statisticians from 57 countries.

Product overview

The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) is an academic research association that provides a portfolio of scholarly products and services centered on the advancement of knowledge in income and wealth measurement. Its core offerings include the quarterly Review of Income and Wealth journal, biennial General Conferences, Special Conferences, the Ruggles Lectures series, and the Ruggles Prize and Kendrick Prize awards. The association serves academic and government statisticians from 57 countries through membership programs, conference participation, and scholarly publication, functioning as a forum for research communication rather than a technology product platform.

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Products and services

• Review of Income and Wealth The official quarterly peer-reviewed journal of IARIW, publishing research on economic measurement, national income and wealth accounting, inequality, poverty measurement, and related economic statistics. It is distributed through Wiley Online Library for articles from 2018 onward, with a free archive of 1966-2022 articles at roiw.org, and is accessible free of charge to members.
• IARIW General Conferences Biennial international conferences bringing together academic scholars and government statisticians to present research on income, wealth, economic and social accounting, and statistical methodology. The 39th General Conference is scheduled for August 24-28, 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, hosted by the National Bank of Belgium.
• IARIW Special Conferences
• Ruggles Memorial Lectures Distinguished memorial lecture series named after Richard and Nancy Ruggles, delivered at IARIW General Conferences by leading scholars on topics of economic measurement and the history of national accounting.
• Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Prize Annual award valued at $2,500 USD given to researchers aged 35 or under for outstanding scholarship presented at IARIW General Conferences. Past recipients include researchers from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, University of Luxembourg, LISER, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Kendrick Prize Annual prize of $1,000 USD recognizing the best article published in the Review of Income and Wealth, honoring John W. Kendrick's contributions to economic growth and productivity research. Recent winners include Gordon Anderson (2023) and Thomas Blanchet, Juliette Fournier, and Thomas Piketty (2022).
• Individual and Institutional Membership Membership program providing access to the quarterly Review of Income and Wealth, member rates for conference registration, paper submission rights, voting in IARIW elections, and free access to all journal articles published since 1966. Institutional members (national statistical offices, international organizations) can name up to three individuals who receive full membership privileges; all employees of institutional members receive free online journal access.

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• International Statistical Institute (ISI)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 October 2025The IARIW organizes sessions at the ISI World Statistics Congress, held every two years. In 2025, an IARIW session on 'International Efforts to Measure Household Distributional Information in Line with Macroeconomic Aggregates' was held at the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague, October 5-9, 2025.
• The University of Economics and Business/Vietnam National University (UEB/VNU)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 October 2025The IARIW, in partnership with the University of Economics and Business/Vietnam National University (UEB/VNU) and the World Bank, organized a special conference on 'Improving Well-being Measurement in Data-challenged Environments in Developing Countries for Better Evidence-based Policies' held in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 2-3, 2025. The conference focused on data generation and analysis in data-scarce contexts and policy implications for the Asia region, with pre-conference training sessions provided by the World Bank.
• Hitotsubashi UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 March 2025The IARIW partnered with Hitotsubashi University to organize a special conference on 'Population Ageing: Implications for Economic Measurement and Economic Performance' held in Tokyo, Japan on March 24-25, 2025. The conference was held at the International House of Japan, and delegates were also invited to attend the 8th Word KLEMS Conference at the same venue on March 27-28, 2025.
• CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 November 2023The IARIW partnered with CIGI to organize a conference on 'The Valuation of Data' held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on November 2-3, 2023. The conference brought together researchers to discuss methodologies for valuing data as an economic asset, with sessions on national accounts approaches, economic perspectives on data valuation, personal and health data valuation, data governance frameworks, and policy implications.
• Bank of ItalycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 March 2023The IARIW partnered with the Bank of Italy to organize a conference on 'Central Banks, Financial Markets, and Inequality' held in Naples, Italy, March 29-April 1, 2023. The venue was at the Bank of Italy's Naples branch, and the conference featured sessions on monetary policy and inequality, financial markets, and distributional effects of central bank policies.
• National Bank of BelgiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe National Bank of Belgium serves as the local host and organizational partner for the 39th IARIW General Conference in Brussels, Belgium, August 24-28, 2026. The conference registration portal is hosted on the NBB Events platform (nbbevents.be/iariw-conference-2026).
• Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWiley (formerly Blackwell) publishes the Review of Income and Wealth journal under a contract that provides the IARIW with a guaranteed annual advance and revenue share from institutional subscriptions. Articles since 2018 are available through Wiley's online library, with members receiving free access.
• National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe IARIW partnered with the National Bureau of Statistics of China to organize a special conference on 'Experiences and Challenges in Measuring National Income and Wealth in Transition Economies' held in Beijing, China in September 2007.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) - Latin America counterpart (Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Economistas): ALACDE is a regional scholarly association organizing economics conferences and supporting economic research in Latin America. It is comparable as a regional scholarly society serving economic measurement and policy research communities, but operating in a different geography.

Broad incumbents

• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): NBER is a private U.S. nonprofit that produces working papers and convenes researchers on economic measurement topics (especially in its programs on productivity, inequality, and aging). It is a broad incumbent with a much larger output volume and budget than IARIW, but overlapping topical territory.
• Econometric Society: The Econometric Society publishes Econometrica and organizes regional and world congresses. It is a broader incumbent that competes for the same quantitative-economics scholarly audience IARIW serves, though its theoretical/econometric focus is narrower on measurement methodology.
• Royal Economic Society: The RES is the U.K.-based learned society for economists, publishing the Economic Journal and convening annual conferences. It is a broad incumbent peer with similar membership-association structure but broader economics scope rather than IARIW's measurement focus.
• American Economic Association: The AEA is a much larger U.S.-anchored scholarly society publishing multiple top-tier journals (AER, JEL) and hosting the largest annual economics meetings. It is a broad incumbent with overlapping membership and topics but vastly larger scale and resources than IARIW.
• European Economic Association: The EEA organizes the annual European Economic Congress and publishes the Journal of the European Economic Association. It is a broad incumbent peer for European-based economists and overlaps with IARIW's European-heavy institutional member base.

Others

• OECD Statistical Advisory Service: OECD's Statistics and Data Directorate produces methodological guidance, working papers, and convenes experts on national accounts and distributional statistics. It is an OTHERS peer—an institutional producer of comparable content and convening power, though it is a governmental body rather than a scholarly society.

Direct peers

• International Economic Association: The IEA is an international scholarly society that organizes world congresses for economists, convening a similar academic-plus-policy audience across many countries. It is a direct peer as both function as membership-based learned societies with periodic conferences and affiliated publications.
• International Statistical Institute: The ISI is the global umbrella organization for statistics, holding the biennial World Statistics Congress where IARIW already organizes sessions. It is a direct peer as both serve as international scholarly societies convening statisticians and methodologists globally, with overlapping member bases and journal/conference models.
• International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS): IAOS is an ISI section focused on official statistics—the same national statistical office community that constitutes IARIW's institutional member base. Both organizations serve the intersection of academia and government statistics, making IAOS the most direct comparable peer in mission and constituency.

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