Models and Data

2012 Index of Dependence on Government Charts
These charts are a supporting document for the Heritage Foundation report "The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government" by William W. Beach and Patrick Tyrrell.
Working Paper: Are California Public Employees Overpaid?
The methodology behind the results published in Jason Richwine and Andrew Biggs, "The Public Worker Gravy Train," Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2011, at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657704576149941061124736.html.
County-level results for Robert Book and James Capretta’s Report on Medicare Advantage
A supporting document for The Heritage Foundation report, “Medicare Advantage Payment Reductions: The Impact on Seniors by Region”, by Robert Book and James Capretta
How Public Policy Can Support or Inhibit a Growing Economy
A presentation by William Beach and Mike Franc of The Heritage Foundation and Paul Gessing of The Rio Grande Foundation
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
Center for Data Analysis Database Binder
Gathered in the following pages are summaries of 53 databases and eight computer models maintained by The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis (CDA) that are generally available to members of the print and broadcast media. These databases are based on publicly available data and are routinely used by analysts at The Heritage Foundation and other think tanks, academic social scientists, government officials, journalists and others to assess the effectiveness of government programs and measure the impact of proposed changes in programs, as well as to analyze the U.S. and international economies.
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.
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)

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