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Working Paper
October 8, 2014
Although the Medicare Part D program generally encourages plan sponsors to submit low bids, this paper explores rules relating to low-income beneficiaries that generate a different set of incentives for plans that serve those beneficiaries.
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Working Paper
September 29, 2014
This paper tests whether married women or secondary earners are the marginal worker in a household by examining transitions from the labor force and estimating participation elasticities with respect to the net-of-tax rate for each group.
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Working Paper
September 11, 2014
This paper presents the simulation model that CBO uses to project the budgetary costs of the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA’s) single-family mortgage insurance program.
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Working Paper
July 30, 2014
CBO releases a companion working paper to its report Competition and the Cost of Medicare’s Prescription Drug Program.
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Working Paper
May 2, 2014
This paper presents two basic innovations: a new type of putty-clay capital, used to model business investment; and the use of investment to identify shares of capital income and market value accruing to tangible and intangible capital.
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Working Paper
February 28, 2014
This paper reviews CBO’s estimates of the effects of changes in federal deficits on national saving and private domestic investment.
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Working Paper
January 27, 2014
Focusing on the U.S. sulfur dioxide allowance market, this paper models allowance prices to determine the influence of market fundamentals and administrative announcements on allowance price level and volatility.
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Working Paper
December 19, 2013
Under a broad-based carbon tax or cap-and-trade program, some of the reduction in U.S. emissions would probably be offset by increases in foreign emissions, a phenomenon known as carbon leakage.
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Working Paper
December 6, 2013
This paper shows that considering an aging population is important in analyzing long-term policy changes that involve intergenerational transfers.
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Working Paper
August 22, 2013
Between 2000 and 2005, spending per beneficiary in the fee-for-service portion of Medicare grew at an annual rate of about 7 percent, but between 2007 and 2010, that rate was closer to 4 percent. What caused that slowdown?
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Working Paper
June 26, 2013
This working paper models decisions about purchasing annuities in a context in which individuals learn new information about their health status over time.
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Working Paper
June 4, 2013
This working paper describes the methods developed to project individual earnings in CBO’s long-term microsimulation model.
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Working Paper
May 7, 2013
Working paper on the Department of Defense Readiness Reporting System.
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Working Paper
May 1, 2013
CBO releases companion working paper to its report Modifying Mortgages Involving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Options for Principal Forgiveness.
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Working Paper
March 18, 2013
This paper reviews the broad contours of total factor productivity growth in the U.S. economy since 1870, highlighting the contribution of various technological innovations to the growth of different sectors of the economy.
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Working Paper
November 13, 2012
Offsetting a Carbon Tax’s Costs on Low-Income Households
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Working Paper
November 6, 2012
The U.S. Army plans to spend about an additional $34 billion in 2013 dollars to develop and purchase a new armored vehicle for its infantry, the Ground Combat Vehicle.
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Working Paper
November 5, 2012
Taxation of Owner-Occupied and Rental Housing
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Working Paper
October 25, 2012
A Review of Recent Research on Labor Supply Elasticities
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Working Paper
October 25, 2012
Review of Estimates of the Frisch Elasticity of Labor Supply
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Working Paper
September 20, 2012
Options for Modernizing Military Weather Satellites
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Working Paper
August 23, 2012
Addressing Market Barriers to Energy Efficiency in Buildings
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Working Paper
June 15, 2012
New Evidence on the Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains
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Working Paper
May 25, 2012
Assessing the Short-Term Effects on Output of Changes in Federal Fiscal Policies
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Working Paper
March 27, 2012
Food Insufficiency and Income Volatility in U.S. Households: The Effects of Imputed Earnings in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
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Working Paper
March 5, 2012
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Expected Social Security Retirement Benefits Among Low-Income Women
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Working Paper
February 2, 2012
Revisiting the Excise Tax Effects of the Property Tax
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Working Paper
January 30, 2012
Comparing Wages in the Federal Government and the Private Sector
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Working Paper
January 30, 2012
Comparing Benefits and Total Compensation in the Federal Government and the Private Sector
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Working Paper
January 18, 2012
Lessons from Medicare's Demonstration Projects on Disease Management and Care Coordination