Background Papers

2007

• Background Paper: How CBO Projects the Real Rate of Interest on 10-Year Treasury Notes
  December 2007  html  pdf  
• Background Paper: CBO's Health Insurance Simulation Model: A Technical Description
  October 2007  pdf  
• Background Paper: The Impact of Medicare's Payment Rates on the Volume of Services Provided by Skilled Nursing Facilities
  July 2007  pdf  
• Background Paper: Factors Underlying the Growth in Medicare's Spending for Physicians' Services
  June 2007  pdf  
• Background Paper: The Effect of Tax Changes on Labor Supply in CBO's Microsimulation Tax Model
  April 2007  pdf  
• Background Paper: Utilization of Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving: Update to 2003
  March 2007  pdf  
• Background Paper: Housing Wealth and Consumer Spending
  January 2007  pdf  

2006

• Background Paper: Computing Effective Tax Rates on Capital Income
  December 2006  pdf  data  
• Background Paper: Projecting Labor Force Participation and Earnings in CBO's Long-Term Microsimulation Model
  October 2006  pdf  
• Background Paper: Valuing the Student Loan Consolidation Option
  October 2006  pdf  
• Background Paper: How CBO Forecasts Income
  August 2006  pdf  
• Background Paper: Medical Malpractice Tort Limits and Health Care Spending
  April 2006  pdf  
• Background Paper: Evaluating Benefit Guarantees in Social Security
  March 2006  pdf  
• Background Paper: Utilization of Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving: An Update
  February 2006  pdf  

2005

• Background Paper: Quantifying Uncertainty in the Analysis of Long-Term Social Security Projections
  November 2005  pdf  
• Background Paper: The Price Sensitivity of Demand for Nongroup Health Insurance
  August 2005  pdf  
• Background Paper: Employment During the 2001-2003 Recovery
  August 2005  pdf  
• Background Paper: Taxing the Untaxed Business Sector
  July 2005  pdf  
• Background Paper: Differences in Wage and Salary Income Included in Various Tax Bases
  June 2005  pdf  
• Background Paper: R&D and Productivity Growth
  June 2005  pdf  
• Background Paper: CBO's Revised Method for Estimating and Projecting Potential TFP
  January 2005  html  pdf  

2004

• Background Paper: What Is Happening to Youth Employment Rates?
  November 2004  html  pdf  
• Background Paper: A Model to Project Flows into and out of Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings Accounts
  October 2004  pdf  
• Background Paper: CBO's Projections of the Labor Force
  September 2004  html  pdf  
• Background Paper: How CBO Analyzes the Sources of Lenders' Interest Income on Guaranteed Student Loans
  June 2004  html  pdf  
• Background Paper: The Taxation of Distributions From Retirement Savings Plans
  April 2004  pdf  
• Background Paper: A Summary of Alternative Methods for Estimating Potential GDP
  March 2004  html  pdf  

1980

• Tax Subsidies for Medical Care: Current Policies and Possible Alternatives
  January 1980  pdf  

1979

• The Effect of PSRO's on Health Care Costs: Current Findings and Future Evaluations
  June 1979  pdf  
• Physician Extenders: Their Current and Future Role in Medical Care Delivery
  April 1979  pdf  
• Profile of Health Care Coverage: The Haves and Have-Nots
  March 1979  pdf  

1978

• Background Paper: Countercyclical Uses of Federal Grant Programs
  November 1978  pdf  

1977

• Health Differentials Between White and Nonwhite Americans
  September 1977  pdf  
• Expenditures for Health Care: Federal Programs and their Effects
  August 1977  pdf