Social security and Medicare policy from the perspective of generational accounting

Alan Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence Kotlikoff

No 9206, Working Papers (Old Series) from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: An application of the generational accounting method of fiscal policy analysis to projected spending paths for Social Security and Medicare suggesting that, under realistic assumptions for these programs, future generations as well as current young Americans could bear a significantly larger share of the burden of government spending than previously thought.

Keywords: Social security; Medicare; Fiscal policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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Chapter: Social Security and Medicare Policy from the Perspective of Generational Accounting (1992)
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