Sources and Preparation of Data Used in HISIM2—CBO’s Health Insurance Simulation Model: Working Paper 2019-04

Jessica Banthin, Keren Hendel, Ben Hopkins and Geena Kim

No 55087, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: CBO’s new health insurance simulation model, HISIM2, is a microsimulation model, meaning that it uses individual-level input data to simulate population behavior. Beginning with the spring 2019 baseline budget projections, CBO completely revamped the way it models consumer and employer behavior; the agency also updated to new sources of individual-level input data. This paper describes the input data and the procedures for adjusting and adding to those data to form the sample used by HISIM2. The new model has been designed to use the Current Population Survey as its main

JEL-codes: H51 I10 I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-04-18
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cmp and nep-ias
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-04/55087-HISIM2_WP.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cbo:wpaper:55087

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().