RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PAPERS THAT USE TRIM DATA

• Benefit Programs
• Child Care
• Child Support and Noncustodial Parents
• Citizenship and Immigration
• Data and Methods
• Family Income and Poverty
• Health Policy
• Marriage and Cohabitation
• Taxes
• Welfare Dependence Indicators

Benefit Programs

Giannarelli, Linda, Joyce Morton and Laura Wheaton, "Estimating The Anti-Poverty Effects Of Changes In Taxes And Benefits With The TRIM3 Microsimulation Model", April 2007.

General Accountability Office, "Means Tested Programs; Information on Program Access Can be an Important Management Tool." March 2005.

Urban Institute, Assessing the New Federalism Project: Many of the state reports and profiles completed under this project use TRIM-adjusted CPS for selected tabulations (primarily for poverty and Medicaid tabulations).

Besharov, Douglas J., The Past and Future of Welfare Reform, December 2002. (TRIM3 data contributed to estimates of the number of families receiving non-TANF means-tested benefits.)

Lerman, Robert I. and Michael Wiseman, "Restructuring Food Stamps for Working Families," August 2002. (TRIM3 was used to correct for underreporting of food stamps in the National Survey of America's Families and to simulate food stamp eligibility.)

Zedlewski, Sheila R., Linda Giannarelli, Joyce Morton, Laura Wheaton, Extreme Poverty Rising, Existing Government Programs Could Do More, April 2002.

VerPloeg, Michele and David M. Betson, editors. "Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program. Phase I Report". National Academy Press, Washington DC, 2001.

Wheaton, Laura, Elaine Sorensen, Reducing Welfare Costs and Dependency: How Much Bang for the Child Support Buck?, Fall 1998

Zedlewski, Sheila R., Sandra Clark, Eric Meier, Keith Watson, Potential Effects of Congressional Welfare Reform Legislation on Family Incomes, July 1996

Zedlewski, Sheila R., and Jack Meyer. "Toward Ending Poverty among the Elderly and Disabled: Policy and Financing Options." Report prepared for The Villers Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund. Washington, DC: Urban Institute. 1987.

Zedlewski, Sheila R., and Linda Jefferson. "Analysis of Interaction between the Food Stamp Program and Other Assistance Programs." Report prepared for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. Washington, DC: Urban Institute. 1985.

Child Care

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. "Child Care Eligibility and Enrollment Estimates for Fiscal Year 2005" , June 2008.

Oliver, Helen, Katherin Ross Philips, Linda Giannarelli, An-Lon Chen, "Eligibility for CCDF-Funded Child Care Subsidies Under the October 1999 Program Rules: Results from the TRIM3 Microsimulation Model," June 2002.

Department of Health and Human Services, Access to Child Care for Low-Income Working Families, October 1999

Child Support and Noncustodial Parents

Wheaton, Laura and Elaine Sorensen, "Extending the EITC to Noncustodial Parents: Potential Impacts and Design Considerations", May, 2009.

Wheaton, Laura and Elaine Sorensen, "The Potential Impact of Increasing Child Support Payments to TANF Families", 2007.

>Wheaton, Laura and Elaine Sorensen, Benefits and Costs of Increased Child Support Distribution to Current and Former Welfare Recipients", October 2005.

Wheaton, Laura, "Cost Avoidance and Cost Recovery in California's Child Support Program SFY 2000-01", February 2004.

Wheaton, Laura, "Child Support Cost Avoidance in 1999", June 2003.

Wheaton, Laura, Elaine Sorensen, Reducing Welfare Costs and Dependency: How Much Bang for the Child Support Buck?, Fall 1998

Citizenship and Immigration

Passel, Jeffrey S., Rebecca L. Clark, Immigrants in New York: Their Legal Status, Incomes, and Taxes, April 1998

Data and Methods

Wheaton, Laura, "Underreporting of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the CPS and SIPP", 2007.

Wheaton, Laura and Linda Giannarelli, "Underreporting of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the March CPS". In American Statistical Association 2000 Proceedings of the Section on Government Statistics and Section on Social Statistics.

Assessing the New Federalism, User's Guide to the New Federalism State Database, 1999 (TRIM-adjusted CPS data were used for some of the variables in the database.)

Family Income and Poverty

Linda Giannarelli and Sheila Zedlewski, "Economic Modeling of Child Poverty and Prevention Council Initiatives, Final Report", August 2009.

Legislative Commission to End Poverty in Minnesota by 2020, "Final Report of the Legislative Commission to End Poverty in Minnesota by 2020", January 2009.

Adam Carasso, Harry Holzer, Elaine Maag, and C. Eugene Steuerle, "The Next Stage for Social Policy: Encouraging Work and Family Formation Among Low-Income Men",October 2008.

Wheaton, Laura and Jamyang Tashi, "Poverty Facts, 2004", April 2008

Giannarelli, Linda, Joyce Morton and Laura Wheaton, "Estimating The Anti-Poverty Effects Of Changes In Taxes And Benefits With The TRIM3 Microsimulation Model", April 2007.

Lerman, Robert I. and Michael Wiseman, "Restructuring Food Stamps for Working Families," August 2002. (TRIM3 was used to correct for underreporting of food stamps in the National Survey of America's Families and to simulate food stamp eligibility.)

Sheila Zedlewski, "Family Incomes: Rising, Falling, or Holding Steady?," in Alan Weil and Kenneth Finegold, eds., Welfare Reform: The Next Act (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 2002).

Zedlewski, Sheila R., Linda Giannarelli, Joyce Morton, Laura Wheaton, Extreme Poverty Rising, Existing Government Programs Could Do More, April 2002.

VerPloeg, Michele and David M. Betson, editors. "Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program. Phase I Report". National Academy Press, Washington DC, 2001.

Sammartino, Frank J. Federal Income Tax Cuts and Low-Income Families, January 2001.

Zedlewski, Sheila R., Sandra Clark, Eric Meier, Keith Watson, Potential Effects of Congressional Welfare Reform Legislation on Family Incomes, July 1996

Palmer, John and Isabel Sawhill, eds. The Reagan Record. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press. 1984.

Health Policy

Brian Goesling and Heather Koball, "Marriage and Health Care Coverage Among Families with Children" , August 2008.

Giannarelli, Linda, Paul Johnson, Sandi Nelson, and Meghan Williamson, "TRIM3's 2001 Baseline Simulation of Medicaid and SCHIP Eligibility and Enrollment: Methods and Results", TRIM3 Microsimulation Project Technical Paper, April 2005.

Burman, Leonard, Cori Uccello, Laura Wheaton, and Deborah Kobes, "Tax Incentives for Health Insurance", May 2003.

Holahan, John, Cori Uccello, Judith Feder, and Johnny Kim, "Children's Health Insurance: The Difference Policy Choices Make," Inquiry Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2000, pages 7-22.

Bruen, Brian K., Joshua M. Wiener, Johnny Kim, Ossai Miazad, State Usage of Medicaid Coverage Options for Aged, Blind, and Disabled People, September 1999

Holahan, John, Joshua Wiener, Susan Wallin, Health Policy for the Low-Income Population: Major Findings from the Assessing the New Federalism Case Studies, November 1998

Lewis, Kimball, Marilyn Ellwood, John L. Czajka, Counting the Uninsured: A Review of the Literature, July 1998

Marsteller, Jill A., Len M. Nichols, Adam Badawi, Bethany Kessler, Stephen Zuckerman, Shruti Rajan, Variations in the Uninsured: State and County Level Analyses , June 1998

Ullman, Frank C., Brian K. Bruen, and John Holahan, State Children's Health Insurance Program, A Look at the Numbers, March 1998.

Ormond, Barbara A., Randall R. Bovbjerg, The Changing Hospital Sector in Washington, D.C.: Implications for the Poor, 1998

Liska, David W., Niall J. Brennan, Brian K. Bruen, State-Level Databook on Health Care Access and Financing, 1998

Holahan, John Expanding Insurance Coverage for Children, May 1997.

Ku, Leighton, and Theresa A. Coughlin, Use of Sliding Scale Premiums in Subsidized Insurance Programs, March 1997.

Holahan, John and Sheila R. Zedlewski. "Insuring Low-Income Americans through Medicaid Expansion." Health Affairs, Spring 1991.

Marriage and Cohabitation

Brian Goesling and Heather Koball, "Marriage and Health Care Coverage Among Families with Children" , August 2008.

Maag, Elaine, "Taxes and Marriage for Cohabiting Parents", May 2005.

Taxes

Burman, Leonard E. and Laura Wheaton, "Eligibility for Child Tax Credit by Age of Child", May 2007.

Giannarelli, Linda, Joyce Morton and Laura Wheaton, "Estimating The Anti-Poverty Effects Of Changes In Taxes And Benefits With The TRIM3 Microsimulation Model", April 2007.

Burman, Leonard and Laura Wheaton, "Who Gets the Child Tax Credit?", October 2005.

Burman, Leonard, Elaine Maag, Peter Orszag, Jeff Rohaly, and John O'Hare, "The Distributional Consequences of Federal Assistance for Higher Education", August 2005.

Maag, Elaine, "Taxes and Marriage for Cohabiting Parents", May 2005.

Burman, Leonard, Cori Uccello, Laura Wheaton, and Deborah Kobes, "Tax Incentives for Health Insurance", May 2003.

Sammartino, Frank J. Designing Tax Cuts to Benefit Low-Income Families, June 2001.

Sammartino, Frank J. Federal Income Tax Cuts and Low-Income Families, January 2001.

Passel, Jeffrey S., Rebecca L. Clark, Immigrants in New York: Their Legal Status, Incomes, and Taxes, April 1998

Weinberg, Daniel H. "The Distributional Implications of Tax Expenditures and Comprehensive Income Taxation." National Tax Journal 40(2, June): 237-53. June 1987.

Welfare Dependence Indicators

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indicators of Welfare Dependence Annual Report to the Congress 2006 (Selected tables use TRIM-adjusted CPS data.)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indicators of Welfare Dependence Annual Report to the Congress 2005 (Selected tables use TRIM-adjusted CPS data.)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indicators of Welfare Dependence Annual Report to the Congress 2004 (Selected tables use TRIM-adjusted CPS data.)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indicators of Welfare Dependence Annual Report to the Congress 2003 (Selected tables use TRIM-adjusted CPS data.)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indicators of Welfare Dependence Annual Report to the Congress 2002 (Selected tables use TRIM-adjusted CPS data.)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indicators of Welfare Dependence Annual Report to Congress March 2001 (Selected tables use TRIM-adjusted CPS data.)