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Projecting Longitudinal Marriage Patterns for Long-Run Policy Analysis: Technical Paper 2002-2

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  • John Sabelhaus

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Imagine a longitudinal micro data file that contains individual earnings along with basic demographic variables such as age, sex, education, marital status, and spouse’s characteristics for a representative future sample of the population. Such a data set would be invaluable for analyzing solvency and distributional questions about Social Security and other long-run policy issues, because the longitudinal data file would have all the information needed to tabulate taxes paid and benefits received under any set of program rules. The goal of dynamic micro-simulation modeling

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  • Josh O’Harra & John Sabelhaus, 2002. "Projecting Longitudinal Marriage Patterns for Long-Run Policy Analysis: Technical Paper 2002-2," Working Papers 14080, Congressional Budget Office.
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