CPR Research and Publications

Medicaid, Managed Care, and Kids

Deborah A. Freund
September 30, 2000

Multiple Comparisons with the Best, with Economic Applications

William C. Horrace & Peter Schmidt
March 19, 2000

Are We Understating the Impact of Economic Conditions on Welfare Rolls?

Dan A. Black, Terra G. McKinnish & Seth G. Sanders
February 29, 2000

Health Promotion for Older Adults: What Is the Potential?

Linda P. Fried
December 31, 1999

See related: Aging

The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed

Leonard Burman
December 31, 1999

See related: Economic Policy

Social Security Reform: Improving Benefit Adequacy and Economic Security for Women

Timothy M. Smeeding
October 31, 1999

The Evolving Practice of Medicine: A View from the Front Line

Robert M. Corwin, Thomas H. Dennison, Patricia D. Franklin, Paul B. Ginsburg & David G. Murray
August 31, 1999

Helping the Working Poor: Employer- vs. Employee-Based Subsidies

Stacy Dickert-Conlin & Douglas Holtz-Eakin
There has been renewed interest in subsidizing firms that employ disadvantaged workers as a means of addressing poverty and other social problems. In contrast, the prevailing practice is largely to provide social welfare benefits directly to individuals.
July 31, 1999

Patients as Consumers: Making the Health Care System Our Own

David J. Lansky
September 30, 1998

The Hidden Age Revolution: Emergent Integration of All Ages

Matilda White Riley
The author aims to show the potential for age integration to transform the basis for policy in the 21st century.
April 30, 1998

See related: Aging

New Conundrums: Public Policy and the Emerging Health Care Marketplace

James R. Tallon
February 28, 1998

Financing Higher Standards in Public Education: The Importance of Accounting for Educational Costs

William Duncombe & John Yinger
The authors explain why a performance focus and educational cost indexes must go hand in hand
January 31, 1998

Pro-Work Policy Proposals for Older Americans in the 21st Century

Richard V. Burkhauser & Joseph F. Quinn
In this report the authors summarize how government policy has influenced retirement since the end of World War II.
October 31, 1997

Empirical Evaluation of Bureaucratic Models of Inefficiency

William Duncombe, Jerry Miner & John Ruggiero
September 30, 1997

Healthier and Wealthier? The Changing Economic Circumstances of the Elderly

James P. Smith
How is the economic status of the elderly changing and what are their prospects for the future? The authors' portrait tells us how well off they are on average, but also about the vast disparities that exist among them.
April 30, 1997

See related: Aging

American Longevity: Past, Present, and Future

Samuel H. Preston
How long we live, and how long members of our families and social groups live, is extraordinarily important to us. Unfortunately, the subject of longevity falls between the cracks of academe and has received far less attention than it warrants.
September 30, 1996

See related: Aging, Longevity

Health Care: Public Good or Private Enterprise?

David M. Lawrence
June 30, 1996

Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination

John M. Yinger
December 31, 1995

Public Policy and Entrepreneurship

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
This brief surveys the various notions of "small business," presents criteria that should underlie policies toward business, and reviews the case for public policies to stimulate entrepreneurship and small business.
October 31, 1995

On the Measurement and Causes of Technical Inefficiency in Local Public Service: With an Application to Public Education

John Ruggiero, William Duncombe & Jerry Miner
September 30, 1995

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