My PWBM Publications
These are PWBM publications that I either authored, co-authored, or contributed to.
Policy Briefs
2025
Shifting Immigration Toward High-Skilled Workers, March 27, 2025
The FY2025 House Budget Reconciliation and Trump Administration Tax Proposals: Budgetary, Economic, and Distributional Effects, February 27, 2025
Eliminating Income Taxes on Social Security Benefits, February 10, 2025
2024
Principles-Based Illustrative Reforms of Federal Tax and Spending Programs, December 4, 2024
Authorizing Medicare and Medicaid to Cover Anti-Obesity Medication, November 27, 2024
Taxing Foreign Affiliates of U.S.-Domiciled Firms, October 15, 2024
Computer Sector Investment Tax Incentives: Economic and Budgetary Effects, October 14, 2024
The 2024 Harris Campaign Policy Proposals: Budgetary, Economic and Distributional Effects, August 26, 2024
The 2024 Trump Campaign Policy Proposals: Budgetary, Economic and Distributional Effects, August 26, 2024
President Biden’s FY2025 Budget Proposal: Budgetary and Economic Effects, May 22, 2024
The Budgetary and Economic Effects of permanently extending the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts’ expiring provisions, May 22, 2024
Policy Options for Reducing the Federal Debt: Spring, 2024, April 22, 2024
2023
A Wide Range of Policy Bundles Can Stabilize Federal Debt while Growing the Economy, September 29, 2023
President Biden's Proposal to Extend the Medicare Trust Fund, March 10, 2023
2022
President Biden’s FY2023 Budget Proposal: Budgetary and Economic Effects, April 14, 2022
Medicare Advantage Auto-Enrollment, March 7, 2022
2021
The Macroeconomic Effects of the August 2021 Senate Budget Reconciliation Package, September 9, 2021
PWBM Budget Contest: Privately-Organized Universal Health Insurance in the U.S., February 9, 2021
2020
Biden’s Healthcare Proposals, October 7, 2020
Dynamic Distributional Analysis of the Biden Platform, September 25, 2020.
PWBM Analysis of the Biden Platform, September 14, 2020.
Selected Press Coverage: Bloomberg, Forbes, New York Times, The Hill, Wall Street Journal
Senator Sanders' Medicare For All (S.1129): An Integrated Analysis, with Kent Smetters, January 30, 2020.
Selected Press coverage: Bloomberg, FOXBusiness, Politico, U.S. News
Medicare For All: Comparison of Financing Options, with Kent Smetters, January 30, 2020.
Technical Background Material
Medicare for All: Health, Life, and the Economy, with Kent Smetters, January 22, 2020.