Doug Elmendorf

Nov 6, 2024 | aei.org | R. Glenn Hubbard |Doug Elmendorf |Wendy Edelberg |Janice Eberly

When Congress considers legislation, nonpartisan agencies provide estimates of the law’s potential economic effects to policymakers, a process known as “scoring.” In recent decades, analysts at the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation have developed models that incorporate complex feedback effects, going beyond conventional scoring techniques.

Aug 28, 2023 | slowboring.com | Doug Elmendorf

Doug Elmendorf is Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and former Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Heidi Williams is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy.