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Models and Data
 
  • China Global Investment Tracker
    China's role in the global financial arena is becoming increasingly important to the United States and the worldwide community. The China Global Investment Tracker created by The Heritage Foundation is the only available comprehensive dataset relating to large Chinese foreign investments and construction contracts in all areas of the world
  • Description of the Global Insight Short-Term US Macroeconomic Model
    The Global Insight (GI) short-term US macroeconomic model is a large-scale 10-year (44-quarter) macroeconometric model of the US economy. It is used primarily for commercial forecasting. However, over the years, analysts in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis (CDA) have worked with economists at Global Insight to adapt the GI model to do policy analysis.
  • Description of the Tax Policy Advisers' Model
    The Tax Policy Advisers Model is a large-scale overlapping generations dynamic computable general equilibrium model that can be used to analyze the short and long run economic and distributional effects of tax reform in the United States, including the transitional effects of reform on asset prices and housing values and the associated reform-induced intergenerational redistributive effects.
  • Tax Calculator
    The Heritage Foundation Tax Calculator allows you to simulate some key elements of the new tax proposals introduced by President Bush in January 2003 and estimate the tax savings for 2003.
  • Federal Revenue and Spending Chartbook
    A graphical presentation of the historical budget, revenues and expenditures.
  • Social Security Calculator
    Estimate your rate of return from Social Security
  • Personal Retirement Account Calculator
    Estimate how President Bush’s 2005 Social Security plan would have affected your retirement
  • Family of Four
    Demographic, economic and other data on the ‘typical’ family of four
  • Computer-Assisted Research & Reporting (CARR)
  • Federal Revenue and Spending: A Book of Charts
CDA Research Papers

May 26, 2009
China Global Investment Tracker
By Derek Scissors, Ph.D.


May 25, 2009
The Center for Data Analysis Database Binder


September 11, 2007
New Analysis Shows Voter Identification Laws Do Not Reduce Turnout
By David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D., and Keri Weber Sikich
Center for Data Analysis Report #07-04


April 17, 2007
Calibrating Macroeconomic and Microsimulation Models to CBO's Baseline Projections
By Tracy L. Foertsch, Ph.D. and Ralph A. Rector, Ph.D.
Center for Data Analysis Report #07-02


December 07, 2006
Dynamic Analysis at Treasury: What Are the Next Steps?
By Tracy L. Foertsch, Ph.D.
Backgrounder #1989


November 22, 2006
A Dynamic Analysis of the 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts: Applying an Alternative Technique for Calibrating Macroeconomic and Microsimulation Models
By Tracy L. Foertsch, Ph.D., and Ralph A. Rector, Ph.D.
Center for Data Analysis Report #06-10


August 17, 2006
The Treasury Department's Dynamic Analysis of President Bush's Tax Relief Plan: A Summary and Evaluation
By Tracy L. Foertsch, Ph.D., and Ralph A. Rector, Ph.D.
Center for Data Analysis Report #06-06


October 10, 2003
What Mainstream Economic Models Tell Us About Wealth Taxes and Changing Tax Policy
By William W. Beach
Heritage Lecture #799


Featured Data & Charts

Chart 3: Initial Jobless Claims


Chart 1: Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index Change
Chart 2: Daily Yield Spread, Moody's Aaa and baa Rated Corporate Bonds
Chart 4: Percent of Labor Force Long-Term Unemployed

Description of Charts



The U.S. Economic Outlook
A PowerPoint presentation by William Beach on the implications of mounting federal debt for the debt paying generation. Total debt is expected to grow from $5.8 trillion in 2008 to $11 trillion by 2019. That is 41% of GDP in 2008 becoming 82% of GDP by 2019. A Tsunami of debt from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will push total debt to 320% of GDP in 2050 and 750% in 2083. In 2019, Interest payments alone on the debt will be $100 billion more than president Obama projects to spend on the whole Department of Defense. (PowerPoint)

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