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CDA Research Papers

October 23, 2008
The 2008 Index of Government Dependency
By William W. Beach
Center for Data Analysis Report #08-08

 

June 11, 2008
Welfare Reform a Factor in Lower Voter Registration at Public Assistance Offices
By David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D., and Patrick Tyrrell
Center for Data Analysis Report #08-03

 

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

 

March 27, 2006
Public Policy in the Age of Entitlements
By William W. Beach
Heritage Lecture #931

 

April 22, 2005
Keep the Social Security Wage Cap: Nearly a Million Jobs Hang in the Balance
By Rea S. Hederman, Jr., Tracy L. Foertsch, Ph.D., and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
Center for Data Analysis Report #05-04

 

April 19, 2005
Raising the Social Security Wage Cap Would Hurt Small Businesses
By Norbert J. Michel, Ph.D., J. Scott Moody, and Ralph A. Rector, Ph.D.
Backgrounder #1845

 

January 12, 2005
The Unacceptable Costs of Raising Payroll Taxes to "Save" Social Security
By Dana R. Dillon
WebMemo #639

 

September 10, 2004
Peace of Mind in Retirement: Making Future Generations Better Off by Fixing Social Security
By William W. Beach, Alfredo B. Goyburu, Ralph A. Rector, Ph.D., David C. John, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Thomas Bingel
Center for Data Analysis Report #04-06

 

February 04, 2000
Why Critics of Social Security Personal Retirement Accounts Are Wrong
By Daniel J. Mitchell, Ph.D.
Backgrounder #1344

 

December 17, 1998
Calculating Social Security's Rate of Return
By William W. Beach and Gareth G. Davis
Executive Memorandum #564

 

December 11, 1998
Social Security's Rate of Return: A Reply to Our Critics
By William W. Beach and Gareth G. Davis
Center for Data Analysis Report #98-08

 

October 16, 1998
How Public Policy Reforms Would Unleash Hispanic America's Economic Potential
By William W. Beach, Gareth G. Davis, Rea S. Hederman, Kirk Johnson, and Nina Shokraii Rees
Backgrounder #1227

 

September 07, 1998
Social Security's Rates of Return for Union Households
By William W. Beach and Gareth G. Davis
Center for Data Analysis Report #98-06

 

July 30, 1998
A State-by-State Analysis of the Returns From Social Security
By William W. Beach, Gareth G. Davis, and Sarah E. Youssef
Center for Data Analysis Report #98-05

 

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