The Boskin commission, along with most other estimates of bias in the U.S. CPI, have taken a micro-statistical approach, estimating separately the magnitude of each category of potential bias. Recent work by staff economists at the Federal Reserve Board has added corroborating evidence of price mis-measurement, using a macroeconomic approach that is essentially independent of the BIS Review 106/1997  -5micro-statistical exercises.
Specifically, employing disaggregated data from the national income and product accounts, this research finds that the measured growth of real output and productivity in the service sector is implausibly weak, given that the return to owners of businesses in that sector apparently has been well-maintained.