--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-12/the-boskin-commission-report-after-a-decade-introduction-to-the-symposium-and-implications-for-productivity/" title: "The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: Introduction to the Symposium and Implications for Productivity" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-13T06:53:28+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-13T06:53:28+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Spring 2006" ipm_keyword: - "Boskin Commission" - "CPI" - "deflation" - "inflation bias" - "price measurement" - "productivity measurement" ipm_research_theme: - "Measurement and methodology" ipm_country_focus: - "International" - "United States" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: Introduction to the Symposium and Implications for Productivity Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-12/the-boskin-commission-report-after-a-decade-introduction-to-the-symposium-and-implications-for-productivity/ # The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: Introduction to the Symposium and Implications for Productivity [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-12-1-Triplett.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Triplett, Jack. 2006. “The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: Introduction to the Symposium and Implications for Productivity.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 12 (Spring 2006): 5–6. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-12/the-boskin-commission-report-after-a-decade-introduction-to-the-symposium-and-implications-for-productivity/ ## Author: - Jack Triplett Brookings Institution ## IPM Issue 12 Spring 2006 pp. 5–6 ## Related IPM articles [The Challenges of Productivity Measurement — Review Article on The Measure of Economies: Measuring Productivity in an Age of Technological Change Chad Syverson Spring 2025 | IPM Issue 48 | pp. 139–143](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-48/the-challenges-of-productivity-measurement-review-article-on-the-measure-of-economies-measuring-productivity-in-an-age-of-technological-change/) [Productivity Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Review Article on Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency: Theory and Practice Bert Balk Spring 2021 | IPM Issue 40 | pp. 134–139](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-40/productivity-measurement-with-data-envelopment-analysis-and-stochastic-frontier-analysis-a-review-article-on-measurement-of-productivity-and-efficiency-theory-and-practice/) [Productivity Measurement in Global Value Chains Marcel Timmer Fall 2017 | IPM Issue 33 | pp. 182–193](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-33/productivity-measurement-in-global-value-chains/) [Data for Productivity Measurement in Market Services: An International Comparison Robert Inklaar, Marcel Timmer, Bart van Ark Spring 2008 | IPM Issue 16 | pp. 71–81](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-16/data-for-productivity-measurement-in-market-services-an-international-comparison/) [What Is To Be Done for Better Productivity Measurement Erwin Diewert Spring 2008 | IPM Issue 16 | pp. 40–52](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-16/what-is-to-be-done-for-better-productivity-measurement/) [Productivity and Sustainable Consumption in OECD Countries: 1980-2005 Dean Baker, David Rosnick Fall 2007 | IPM Issue 15 | pp. 41–54](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-15/productivity-and-sustainable-consumption-in-oecd-countries-1980-2005/) [Can Measurement Error Explain the Weakness of Productivity Growth in the Canadian Construction Industry? 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Triplett explains that a one percentage point upward bias in price indexes translates directly into a one percentage point downward bias in measured output and productivity growth, and surveys the five symposium papers which assess the Commission’s analysis, findings, and influence a decade after the 1996 final report. Cette introduction à un symposium sur le rapport de la Commission Boskin après une décennie établit l’importance des indices de prix exacts pour une mesure fiable de la productivité. Triplett explique qu’un biais à la hausse d’un point de pourcentage dans les indices de prix se traduit directement par un biais à la baisse d’un point de pourcentage dans la croissance mesurée de la production et de la productivité, et passe en revue les cinq articles du symposium qui évaluent l’analyse, les conclusions et l’influence de la Commission une décennie après le rapport final de 1996. [Download full PDF](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-12-1-Triplett.pdf)