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Working Papers

2011

1. Who Retires Early?
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)

2009

2. What Drives Health Care Spending? Can We Know Whether Population Aging Is A 'Red Herring'?
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)

Undated

3. Back to the Future
   Working Paper, Harvard University OpenScholar

Journal Articles

2015

1. The Transformation of Medicare, 2015 to 2030
   Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2015, 18, (2), 119-136 View citations (7)

2014

2. The Fiscal Challenges of Population Aging The Contrasting Cases of The United States and Japan
   Public Policy Review, 2014, 10, (2), 277-300

2013

3. Book Review: The Elgar Guide to Tax Systems Edited by Emilio Albi and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez (Edward Elgar, 2011, Cheltenham, Uk, 462 Pages)
   National Tax Journal, 2013, 66, (2), 499-504

2011

4. Social Security Reconsidered
   National Tax Journal, 2011, 64, (2), 385-414 View citations (9)

2010

5. How to think about the U.S. budget challenge
   Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, 29, (4), 883-891 View citations (1)
6. How to think about the U.S. budget challenge: Response to C. Eugene Steuerle
   Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, 29, (4), 893-895
7. Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment
   The Economists' Voice, 2010, 7, (5), 5

2008

8. A tribute to Richard Abel Musgrave
   Journal of Economics and Finance, 2008, 32, (4), 330-333 View citations (3)
9. Can The Poor Save? Saving and Asset Building in Individual Development Accounts. By Mark Schreiner and Michael Sherraden. Transaction Publishers, 2007, ISBN 0-202-30839-1, 385 pages
   Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2008, 7, (3), 358-359

2007

10. Response
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2007, 26, (1), 184-186
11. The worst system of health care reform-except for all the others: A Federalist approach to health care reform
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2007, 26, (1), 178-181

2005

12. It’s health care, stupid! why control of health care spending is vital for long-term fiscal stability
    Conference Series ; [Proceedings], 2005, 50, (Jun), 183-205

2004

13. The Truth About Social Security and Medicare
    Challenge, 2004, 47, (3), 27-41

2001

14. Handbook of Health Economics
    Journal of Health Economics, 2001, 20, (5), 847-854 View citations (4)

2000

15. Presidential address- Seeing through the fog
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2000, 19, (2), 193-206 View citations (7)

1994

16. Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Public Policy, Values, and Consciousness
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1994, 8, (2), 3-21 View citations (16)
17. Economic Issues in Reform of Health Care Financing
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1994, 25, (1994 Microeconomics), 249-299 View citations (16)
18. Issues Every Plan to Reform Health Care Financing Must Confront
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1994, 8, (3), 31-43 View citations (9)
19. Tax Issues in Health Care Reform
    National Tax Journal, 1994, 47, (2), 407-16
20. The future of health policy, by Victor Fuchs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Price: $29.95
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1994, 13, (4), 785-790

1992

21. Equity in the finance and delivery of health care
    Journal of Health Economics, 1992, 11, (4), 467-471 View citations (3)
22. Reassessing the Role for Wealth Transfer Taxes
    National Tax Journal, 1992, 45, (2), 119-43 View citations (35)
23. Symposium on Economists as Policy Advocates
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1992, 6, (3), 59-60

1991

24. Viewpoint
    Challenge, 1991, 34, (6), 61-63

1990

25. Comment
    Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1990, 13, (2), 171-171
26. Remembering Joseph A. Pechman, 1918-1989
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990, 4, (4), 121-24
27. Review: Social Science Research and Policy
    Journal of Human Resources, 1990, 25, (2), 275-311 View citations (2)
28. Social Security: The LaBrea Tar Pits of Public Policy
    National Tax Journal, 1990, 43, (3), 363-69 View citations (1)
29. Symposium on the Economic Status of African-Americans
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990, 4, (4), 3-7 View citations (1)

1989

30. Fiscal Policy and the Dynamic Inconsistency of Social Security Forecasts
    American Economic Review, 1989, 79, (2), 91-96 View citations (2)
31. Politics and the Professors Revisited
    American Economic Review, 1989, 79, (2), 1-15 View citations (36)
32. Statement by Forty Economists on American Trade Policy
    The World Economy, 1989, 12, (2), 263-266 View citations (1)

1987

33. Symposium on Tax Reform
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1987, 1, (1), 7-10 View citations (5)

1983

34. Orange light for the competitive model
    Journal of Health Economics, 1983, 2, (3), 281-284

1982

35. An Econometric Examination of the New Federalism
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1982, 13, (2), 327-370 View citations (23)

1981

36. Social Security Can Be Saved
    Challenge, 1981, 24, (5), 4-9

1980

37. Advisory Report on Social Security
    Challenge, 1980, 23, (1), 12-16

1976

38. Inflation and the Income Tax
    American Economic Review, 1976, 66, (2), 193-99 View citations (54)
39. Reply to Geoffrey Brennan, "The Distributional Implications of Public Goods."
    Econometrica, 1976, 44, (2), 401-04 View citations (5)

1974

40. A New View of Property Tax Incidence
    American Economic Review, 1974, 64, (2), 212-21 View citations (15)

1973

41. Housing Investment in the Inner City: The Dynamics of Decline
    Journal of Economic Issues, 1973, 7, (4), 738-740

1972

42. Tax Changes and Composition of Fixed Investment: An Aggregative Simulation
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1972, 54, (4), 343-56
43. Taxation of the Poor and the Rich: Discussion
    American Economic Review, 1972, 62, (2), 332-34

1970

44. Income Taxes and Housing
    American Economic Review, 1970, 60, (5), 789-806 View citations (32)
45. Public Goods and Income Distribution
    Econometrica, 1970, 38, (6), 907-20 View citations (96)

1969

46. Efficiency and Equity in the Optimal Supply of a Public Good
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1969, 51, (1), 31-39 View citations (18)

Books

1999

1. Should the United States Privatize Social Security?, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations (20)

Chapters

2004

1. Uncertainty and pension policy
   Chapter 3 in The Economics of Social Security in Japan, 2004

1996

2. Health Care Reform: The Clash of Goals, Facts, and Ideology
   A chapter in Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-Term Care in America, 1996, pp 107-142 View citations (2)

1977

3. Demographic Effects on the Equity of Social Security Benefits
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (17)