politics, given the desire to pass a major spending and tax relief package as quickly as possible. States are important "agents …

making under ambiguity. Focusing on income-tax financed public spending for infrastructure that aims to enhance productivity … planner who has partial knowledge of population preferences and the productivity of spending. This is a problem of decision … preferences and the productivity of public spending …

One possible explanation for the difficulty in controlling the budget is that a major component of spending --tax … expenditures--receives privileged status. It is treated as tax cuts rather than spending. This paper explores the implications of … (too many tax expenditures). The paper then analyzes alternative budgeting approaches that would explicitly incorporate and …

for out-of-pocket health spending. We show how the response of spending to this expansion in the tax preference can be …In this paper, we calculate the consequences for health spending and federal revenues of an above-the-line deduction … compare our estimates to those from other researchers. And, we use our analysis to derive some implications for tax policy …

In this paper, we review the most prominent provision of the federal income tax code that targets low-income tax filers …, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), as well as the structurally similar Child Tax Credit (CTC). We frame the paper around … Tax Policy Center. We conclude that the EITC is quite successful in meeting its three goals. In contrast, most of the …

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United … countries to improve financing incentives and encourage efficient use of health services. In the case of risk pooling, all … goal. Many countries are exploring new ways of generating revenues for health care to enable them to cope with significant …

combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and …

International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing, a substudy within the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study …. Variation in spending per ESRD patient is relatively small and is correlated with overall per capita health care spending …

helps the selection of politicians that ensure high productivity in public education. Through this mechanism, we show that … future returns to current spending on public education. Greater social diffusion of information makes this knowledge more … with higher social capital spend a higher share of output on public education …