The Distributional Impacts of Public Policies

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: The Distributional Impacts of Public Policies....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Priorities, Programs, and Presidents: Assessing Patterns of Growth in US Social Welfare Programs, 1950–1985....Pages 13-32
Recent Trends in Poverty and the Antipoverty Effectiveness of Income Transfers....Pages 33-46
Reagan, the Recession, and Poverty: What the Official Estimates Fail to Show....Pages 47-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Alternative Child Support Regimes: Distributional Impacts and a Crude Benefit-Cost Analysis....Pages 67-86
Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Social Security Benefits: Their Impact on the Incomes of the Elderly....Pages 87-115
Distributional Analyses of Three Deficit Reduction Options Affecting Social Security Cash Benefits....Pages 116-148
The Effects of Taxing Unemployment Insurance Benefits Accounting For Induced Labor Supply Responses....Pages 149-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
The Growth and Distribution of Tax Expenditures....Pages 171-201
Microsimulation Models and State Tax Reform: The Case of Massachusetts....Pages 202-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
The ‘Group-Benefit’ Method: A New Methodology for Distributional Analyses of Fiscal Policies in Developing Nations....Pages 219-238
Politics and Distributional Impact Studies: The Dilemma of Economic Analysis in the Policy-Making Process....Pages 239-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-257