Tax Policy and the Economy 2007

by Poterba, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780262162463
• ISBN10: 0262162466
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-31
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

This NBER series presents current academic research findings in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included provide important background information for policy analysts in government and the private sector without making specific policy recommendations. This twenty-first installment in the series reports on recent research concerning both taxation and social insurance policy. The papers discuss Medicaid's implicit tax on the benefits of private long-term care insurance, an alternative to current unemployment insurance systems, the tax treatment of health insurance expenditures, the effective marginal tax rates on labor supply and saving, and the rationale for and effect of energy-related tax policies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand	p. 1
Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey
Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts	p. 35
Evaluating Effects of Tax Preferences on Health Care Spending and Federal Revenues	p. 65
Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save?	p. 83
Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving
Federal Tax Policy toward Energy	p. 145
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