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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... The papers relate to all of the elements that are part of using microsimulation models for policy analysis purposes: that is, to estimating the budgetary and population effects of alternative programs and policies. As approached through microsimulation techniques, this task entails simulating the effects of program changes at the level of the individual decision units involved-such as families for changes to income support programs or doctors and hospitals for changes to health care cost reimbursement programs.
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