NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 21


Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 21
James M. Poterba, editor

The MIT Press, 2007
$25.00 (paper); $58.00 (cloth)
184 pages
ISBN: 0-262-66202-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-66202-4 (paper); 0-262-16246-6, 978-0-262-16246-3 (cloth)

Some chapters may have appeared as NBER Working Papers, which are preliminary versions of the published papers.

Table of Contents:

    Introduction (p. xiii-xvi)
    James M. Poterba

    1. Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey (p. 1-34)
    Jeffrey R. Brown, Norma B. Coe and Amy Finkelstein

    2. Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (p. 35-63)
    Martin Feldstein and Daniel Altman

    3. Evaluating Effects of Tax Preferences on Health Care Spending and Federal Revenues (p. 65-82)
    John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard and Daniel P. Kessler

    4. Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving (p. 83-143)
    Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson

    5. Federal Tax Policy towards Energy (p.145-184)
    Gilbert E. Metcalf


 
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