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Autor:
John F. Cogan
Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inef
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 37:404-421
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and great recession, many countries face substantial deficits and growing debts. In the United States, federal government outlays as a ratio to GDP rose substantially from about 19.5 percent before the
Publikováno v:
National Tax Journal. 64:795-816
In this paper, we estimate the effect of the tax preference for health insurance on health care spending using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys from 1996–2005. We use the fact that Social Security taxes are only levied on earnings be
Publikováno v:
Tax Policy and the Economy. 21:65-82
In this paper, we calculate the consequences for health spending and federal revenues of an above-the-line deduction for out-of-pocket health spending. We show how the response of spending to this expansion in the tax preference can be specified as a
Autor:
John F. Cogan, Olivia S. Mitchell
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Perspectives. 17:149-172
Recently we were asked to serve on the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security (CSSS) along with 14 other members drawn equally from both major political parties. The Commission's charge was to provide recommendations to modernize the So
Publikováno v:
American Political Science Review. 96:127-140
Does a typical House member need to worry about the electoral ramifications of his roll-call decisions? We investigate the relationship between incumbents' electoral performance and roll-call support for their party—controlling for district ideolog
The perils of presidential support: How the Republicans took the House in the 1994 midterm elections
Publikováno v:
Political Behavior. 18:345-367
The results of the 1994 U.S. national elections were by all accounts extraordinary. The Republican Party's victory was historic in its depth and breadth. The party gained fifty-two seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, eight seats in the U.S. S
Recently, we evaluated a fiscal consolidation strategy for the United States that would bring the government budget into balance by gradually reducing government spending relative to GDP to the ratio that prevailed prior to the crisis (Cogan et al, J
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In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- c