scholarly journals Employer-Sim Microsimulation Model: Model Development and Application to Estimation of Tax Subsidies to Health Insurance

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Miller ◽  
Thomas M. Selden ◽  
Jessica S. Banthin
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Microsimulation Model ◽  
Tax Subsidies

Tax Subsidies For Employment-Related Health Insurance: Estimates For 2006

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1568-1579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Selden ◽  
Bradley M. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Tax Subsidies

Anti-Poverty Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-87
Author(s):  
Cathal O'Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Microsimulation Model ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Family Model ◽  
Social Transfers ◽  
Microsimulation Models

This chapter discusses the development of a static microsimulation model for the purpose of undertaking an anti-poverty policy reform. Microsimulation models, which simulate the legislative detail of poverty-reduction instruments, can be used to make social-protection instruments more effective in this objective by helping to improve the targeting of these instruments. This chapter describes firstly the structure of the dataset required for microsimulation modelling. It then creates a theoretical understanding of the structure of social transfers, and of the concept of a hypothetical microsimulation model. Although the model developed in this chapter abstracts from the population complexity described in Chapter 1, it allows us in a simpler way to understand the targeting and structure of anti-poverty policies. Some of the issues that arise in creating a base dataset for a microsimulation model are discussed. As validation, debugging, and error checking are paramount in model development, the use of a hypothetical family model to use for validation purposes is introduced. We define some concepts used to calculate the poverty efficiency of a social-protection instrument. Finally, the chapter undertakes a simulation of the development of a means-tested benefit.

scholarly journals Tax Subsidies to Employer-Provided Health Insurance

10.3386/w5147 ◽  
1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gruber ◽  
James Poterba
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Tax Subsidies

scholarly journals Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 710-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neale Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Microsimulation Model ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
Coverage Decision ◽  
Sources Of Variation ◽  
The Affordable Care Act

This paper examines the implicit health insurance that households receive from the ability to declare bankruptcy. Exploiting multiple sources of variation in asset exemption law, I show that uninsured households with a greater financial cost of bankruptcy make higher out-of-pocket medical payments, conditional on the amount of care received. In turn, I find that households with greater wealth at risk are more likely to hold health insurance. The implicit insurance from bankruptcy distorts the insurance coverage decision. Using a microsimulation model, I calculate that the optimal Pigovian penalties are three-quarters as large as the average penalties under the Affordable Care Act. (JEL D14, H51, I13, K35)

Tax Subsidies For Health Insurance: Costs And Benefits

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gruber ◽  
Larry Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Tax Subsidies ◽  
Insurance Costs
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