Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling: Volume I, Review and Recommendations

by Constance F. Citro and National Research Council

This book reviews the uses and abuses of microsimulation models--large, complex models that produce estimates of the effects on program costs and who would gain and who would lose from proposed changes in government policies ranging from health care to welfare to taxes.

Volume 1 is designed to guide future investment in modeling and analysis capability on the part of government agencies that produce policy estimates. It will inform...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030904541X
• ISBN13: 9780309045414
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"