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Current Work on the Distributional Analysis of Household Income Resulting From Policy Changes: Working Paper 2022-09

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  • Bilal Habib
  • Rebecca Heller

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The Congressional Budget Office developed a framework to further standardize analyses of the distribution of household income and to complement analyses of policy changes’ budgetary and economic effects. This paper introduces that analytical framework and describes the agency’s current methods, along with examples.This paper discusses the analytical choices that CBO plans to make in its distributional analyses of policy changes and notes how different choices could affect the analysis. Also discussed are the inherently difficult choices associated with

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  • Bilal Habib & Rebecca Heller, 2022. "Current Work on the Distributional Analysis of Household Income Resulting From Policy Changes: Working Paper 2022-09," Working Papers 58508, Congressional Budget Office.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbo:wpaper:58508
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    JEL classification:

    • C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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