Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 21.

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 21, edited by James M. Poterba, will be available from the MIT Press this spring. The paperback price is $25.00; the clothbound price is $58.00.

This NBER series presents current academic research findings in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included provide important background information for policy analysts in government and the private sector without making specific policy recommendations. This twenty-first installment in the series reports on recent research concerning both taxation and social insurance policy. The papers discuss Medicaid's implicit tax on the benefits of private long-term care...