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IMPROVING INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL POLICY DECISIONS, THE USES OF MICROSIMULATION MODELING
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| Volume: |
v. 1 |
| By: |
Panel to Evaluate Microsimulation Models for Social Welfare Programs, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£61.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0309073812 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780309073813 |
| Publisher: |
NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1991 |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
Reviews the uses and abuses of microsimulation models. This volume informs congressional and executive decision makers about the strengths and weaknesses of models and estimates and interests social scientists in the potential of microsimulation techniques for basic and applied research as well as policy uses. |
| Synopsis: |
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 congressional and executive decision makers about the strengths and weaknesses of models and estimates and will interest social scientists in the potential of microsimulation techniques for basic and applied research as well as policy uses. The book concludes that a "second revolution" is needed to improve the quality of microsimulation and other policy analysis models and the estimates they produce, with a special emphasis on systematic validation of models and communication of validation results to decision makers. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
National Academies Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |