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- noun A form of
computerized analysis used to study detailedmodels .
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The "microsimulation" analysis is by Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Treasury Department official under President Bill Clinton.
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Well, take Gruber's appearance before the Senate HELP Committee on November 2, 2009, for which he used his microsimulation model to make calculations about small business insurance coverage.
Jane Hamsher: How the White House Used Gruber's Work to Create Appearance of Broad Consensus 2010
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In this paper, I use a microsimulation model to estimate the impact of various tax interventions to cover the uninsured, relative to an expansion of public insurance designed to accomplish the same goals.
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In this paper, I use a microsimulation model to estimate the impact of various tax interventions to cover the uninsured, relative to an expansion of public insurance designed to accomplish the same goals.
January 2006 2006
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This paper reviews the results of using this new microsimulation model to estimate the distributional impacts and expenditure and revenue effects of major federal higher education tax and spending policies.
August 2005 2005
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This development effort involved creating new education modules for use in two different microsimulation models—the TPC's tax model and the Urban Institute's transfer income model TRIM.
August 2005 2005
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This paper describes an initial effort to build a microsimulation model that can provide detailed estimates of the distributional impacts of both tax and expenditure programs and the interdependencies of these two types of policy instruments.
August 2005 2005
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For each population scenario, we applied a measurement microsimulation model where census 1 is taken at time
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Christopher J. L. Murray et al. 2010
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Using microsimulation to study the performance of DDMs requires two interconnected models: a population microsimulation model and a measurement microsimulation model.
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Christopher J. L. Murray et al. 2010
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The researchers then evaluated the performance of the variants in three "validation" datasets for which the completeness of death registration is known-a microsimulation of a population of 10 million people followed for 150 years, population data from US counties between 1990 and 2000, and population data from high-income OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries with populations of more than 5 million between 1950 and 2000.
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Christopher J. L. Murray et al. 2010
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