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Background Papers
2009
CBO's Long-Term Model: An Overview
June 2009
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Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
April 2009
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Technical Paper 2003-03: The Economic Costs of Reducing Emissions of Greenhouse Gases: A Survey of Economic Models
May 2003
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2008
Background Paper: The Outlook for Housing Starts, 2009 to 2012
November 2008
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Background Paper: Assigning Education Status in CBO's Long-Term Microsimulation Model
October 2008
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2007
Background Paper: How CBO Projects the Real Rate of Interest on 10-Year Treasury Notes
December 2007
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Background Paper: CBO's Health Insurance Simulation Model: A Technical Description
October 2007
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Background Paper: The Impact of Medicare's Payment Rates on the Volume of Services Provided by Skilled Nursing Facilities
July 2007
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Background Paper: Factors Underlying the Growth in Medicare's Spending for Physicians' Services
June 2007
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Background Paper: The Effect of Tax Changes on Labor Supply in CBO's Microsimulation Tax Model
April 2007
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Background Paper: Utilization of Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving: Update to 2003
March 2007
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Background Paper: Housing Wealth and Consumer Spending
January 2007
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2006
Background Paper: Computing Effective Tax Rates on Capital Income
December 2006
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Background Paper: Projecting Labor Force Participation and Earnings in CBO's Long-Term Microsimulation Model
October 2006
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Background Paper: Valuing the Student Loan Consolidation Option
October 2006
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Background Paper: How CBO Forecasts Income
August 2006
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Background Paper: Medical Malpractice Tort Limits and Health Care Spending
April 2006
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Background Paper: Evaluating Benefit Guarantees in Social Security
March 2006
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Background Paper: Utilization of Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving: An Update
February 2006
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2005
Background Paper: Quantifying Uncertainty in the Analysis of Long-Term Social Security Projections
November 2005
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Background Paper: The Price Sensitivity of Demand for Nongroup Health Insurance
August 2005
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Background Paper: Employment During the 2001-2003 Recovery
August 2005
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Background Paper: Taxing the Untaxed Business Sector
July 2005
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Background Paper: R&D and Productivity Growth
June 2005
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Background Paper: Differences in Wage and Salary Income Included in Various Tax Bases
June 2005
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Background Paper: CBO's Revised Method for Estimating and Projecting Potential TFP
January 2005
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2004
Background Paper: What Is Happening to Youth Employment Rates?
November 2004
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Background Paper: A Model to Project Flows into and out of Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings Accounts
October 2004
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Background Paper: CBO's Projections of the Labor Force
September 2004
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Background Paper: How CBO Analyzes the Sources of Lenders' Interest Income on Guaranteed Student Loans
June 2004
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Background Paper: The Taxation of Distributions From Retirement Savings Plans
April 2004
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Background Paper: A Summary of Alternative Methods for Estimating Potential GDP
March 2004
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1980
Background Paper: Tax Subsidies for Medical Care: Current Policies and Possible Alternatives
January 1980
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1979
Background Paper: The Effect of PSRO's on Health Care Costs: Current Findings and Future Evaluations
June 1979
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Background Paper: Physician Extenders: Their Current and Future Role in Medical Care Delivery
April 1979
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Background Paper: Profile of Health Care Coverage: The Haves and Have-Nots
March 1979
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1978
Background Paper: Countercyclical Uses of Federal Grant Programs
November 1978
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Background Paper: Loan Guarantees: Current Concerns and Alternatives for Control
August 1978
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Background Paper: Proposition 13: Its Impact on the Nation's Economy, Federal Revenues, and Federal Expenditures
July 1978
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Background Paper: Federal Housing Policy: Current Programs and Recurring Issues
June 1978
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1977
Background Paper: Health Differentials Between White and Nonwhite Americans
September 1977
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Background Paper: Expenditures for Health Care: Federal Programs and their Effects
August 1977
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Background Paper: The Legal Services Corporation--Budgetary Issues and Alternative Federal Approaches
July 1977
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Background Paper: The U.S. Sea Control Mission: Forces, Capabilities, and Requirements
June 1977
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Background Paper: Nuclear Reprocessing and Proliferation: Alternative Approaches and their Implications for the Federal Budget
May 1977
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Background Paper: Incomes Policies in the United States: Historical Review and Some Issues
May 1977
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Background Paper: Social Security Benefits for Students
May 1977
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Background Paper: Commodity Initiatives of Less Developed Countries: U.S. Responses and Costs
May 1977
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Background Paper: Retirement Accounting Changes: Budget and Policy Impacts
April 1977
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Background Paper: The Federal Government's Pay Systems: Adjustment Procedures and Impacts of Proposed Changes
February 1977
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1976
Background Paper: Financing Postal Operations: Alternative Approaches and their Budgetary Implications
March 1976
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