Laurence S Seidman
Biographic Data
| ID | 458426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence S Seidman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence S |
| FAMILY NAME | Seidman |
| SIGNATURE | SEIDMAN L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9271-5438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Responsible Health Insurance Revisited: Pouring Liberal Wine into a Conservative Bottle
In 1991, an article appeared proposing a plan for "Responsible National Health Insurance" (RHI) that contained three crucial elements supported by economists affiliated with two conservative policy institutions (the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation). The central purpose of this article is to revisit RHI in light of developments over the past decade, and to make the case that liberals, rather than reject RHI, now should su…
Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit
Hoffman and Seidman offer a complete assessment of the EITC in which they analyze, evaluate, summarize, and critique the state of the program. The authors find that, overall, the EITC works well, and that it has earned its political popularity. Yet they also uncover several problem areas that they address with specific recommendations based on their analysis
The Earned Income Tax Credit: Antipoverty Effectiveness and Labor Market Effects
a nonprofit research organization, was established on July 1, 1945.It is an activity of the W. E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation, which was formed in 1932 to administer a fund set aside by the late
The Quantitative Consequences of Raising the U.S. Saving Rate
The authors investigate the consequences of a permanent unphased increase in the U.S. gross saving rate. They find that "the sacrifice time"--the time that elapses until consumption surpasses the value it would have had under the initial saving rate--is roughly six years and is insensitive to the percentage increase in the saving rate ([Delta sub s]). The percentage gain in output at the end of decade--" the decade gain"--is roughly 26% of [Delta…
Crisis Stability
One criterion for evaluating a nation's military structure is its impact on crisis stability. This article presents a model to capture the process of interacting expectations that determines whether initial suspicions are sufficient to cause one or both nations to strike rather than wait during a crisis. The model can be used to assess the impact on crisis stability of specific changes in military structure. For example, the impact of a populatio…
Conversion to a Consumption Tax: The Transition in a Life-Cycle Growth Model
This paper examines the transitional losses that may follow conversion from an income tax to a consumption tax, even when conversion eventually raises steady-state lifetime welfare. Two recent studies have left the impression that the transitional losses would be large. Using a life-cycle growth model, this paper examines two reasons why these studies have probably overestimated the transitional losses. The model computes the welfare gains and lo…
The Return of the Profit Rate to the Wage Equation
McCallum, Bennett T., The Role of Speculation in the Canadian Forward Exchange Market: Some Estimates Assuming Rational Expectations, this REVIEW 59 (May 1977) 145-151. Officer, Lawrence H., and Thomas D. Willet, The Covered Arbitrage Schedule: A Critical Study of Recent Developments, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 2 (May 1970) 247-257. Stoll, Hans B., An Empirical Study of the Forward Exchange Market under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rate …
The Aroman Food Crisis: A Fable with a Lesson for National Health Insurance
An analogy is always imperfect. Nevertheless, at times it is an effective way to communicate an insight. This paper uses an analogy to examine the consequences of attempting to achieve health sector efficiency through regulation, instead of consumer cost-sharing. It is suggested that as long as hospital care continues to be virtually “free” to patients at the time of use, such regulation may well do more harm than good. Moreover, a national healt…
Conversion to a Consumption Tax: The Transition in a Life-Cycle Growth Model
This paper examines the transitional losses that may follow conversion from an income tax to a consumption tax, even when conversion eventually raises steady-state lifetime welfare. Two recent studies have left the impression that the transitional losses would be large. Using a life-cycle growth model, this paper examines two reasons why these studies have probably overestimated the transitional losses. The model computes the welfare gains and lo…
The Aroman Food Crisis: A Fable with a Lesson for National Health Insurance
An analogy is always imperfect. Nevertheless, at times it is an effective way to communicate an insight. This paper uses an analogy to examine the consequences of attempting to achieve health sector efficiency through regulation, instead of consumer cost-sharing. It is suggested that as long as hospital care continues to be virtually “free” to patients at the time of use, such regulation may well do more harm than good. Moreover, a national healt…
The Return of the Profit Rate to the Wage Equation
McCallum, Bennett T., The Role of Speculation in the Canadian Forward Exchange Market: Some Estimates Assuming Rational Expectations, this REVIEW 59 (May 1977) 145-151. Officer, Lawrence H., and Thomas D. Willet, The Covered Arbitrage Schedule: A Critical Study of Recent Developments, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 2 (May 1970) 247-257. Stoll, Hans B., An Empirical Study of the Forward Exchange Market under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rate …
Conversion to a Consumption Tax: The Transition in a Life-Cycle Growth Model
This paper examines the transitional losses that may follow conversion from an income tax to a consumption tax, even when conversion eventually raises steady-state lifetime welfare. Two recent studies have left the impression that the transitional losses would be large. Using a life-cycle growth model, this paper examines two reasons why these studies have probably overestimated the transitional losses. The model computes the welfare gains and lo…
Crisis Stability
One criterion for evaluating a nation's military structure is its impact on crisis stability. This article presents a model to capture the process of interacting expectations that determines whether initial suspicions are sufficient to cause one or both nations to strike rather than wait during a crisis. The model can be used to assess the impact on crisis stability of specific changes in military structure. For example, the impact of a populatio…
The Quantitative Consequences of Raising the U.S. Saving Rate
The authors investigate the consequences of a permanent unphased increase in the U.S. gross saving rate. They find that "the sacrifice time"--the time that elapses until consumption surpasses the value it would have had under the initial saving rate--is roughly six years and is insensitive to the percentage increase in the saving rate ([Delta sub s]). The percentage gain in output at the end of decade--" the decade gain"--is roughly 26% of [Delta…
The Earned Income Tax Credit: Antipoverty Effectiveness and Labor Market Effects
a nonprofit research organization, was established on July 1, 1945.It is an activity of the W. E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation, which was formed in 1932 to administer a fund set aside by the late
Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit
Hoffman and Seidman offer a complete assessment of the EITC in which they analyze, evaluate, summarize, and critique the state of the program. The authors find that, overall, the EITC works well, and that it has earned its political popularity. Yet they also uncover several problem areas that they address with specific recommendations based on their analysis
Responsible Health Insurance Revisited: Pouring Liberal Wine into a Conservative Bottle
In 1991, an article appeared proposing a plan for "Responsible National Health Insurance" (RHI) that contained three crucial elements supported by economists affiliated with two conservative policy institutions (the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation). The central purpose of this article is to revisit RHI in light of developments over the past decade, and to make the case that liberals, rather than reject RHI, now should su…
Economics (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Earned income tax credit (2 works) · Econometrics (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Microeconomics (2 works) · Political science (2 works)