About Economic Studies

The Brookings Economic Studies program analyzes current and emerging economic policy issues facing the United States and the industrialized and developing world. The research aims to increase understanding of how the economy works and what can be done to make it work better.

Learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our Expert pages and our Research pages.

To help organize, focus, and leverage their work, Economic Studies contains a variety of Centers, Projects and major initiatives which are organized around four priority areas.

Business and the Economy 

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  Publishing research on current issues in macroeconomic policy, described in a clear and accessible style to maximize the impact on economic policymaking.
• Initiative on Business and Public Policy
  Providing research and recommendations on policy issues affecting the conduct of business in the U.S. and abroad.
  

Health Care Reform

• Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
  Working to raise the quality and value of medical care, restructure provider payments, expand access to affordable health insurance, and leverage the benefits of innovation and information technology.
• Quality Alliance Steering Committee 
  A collaborative effort among existing quality alliances, government, physicians, nurses, hospitals, health insurers, consumers, accrediting agencies and foundations to dramatically improve the quality of health care across the U.S.

Social Policy 

• Center on Children and Families
  Studying policies for the well-being of children and their parents, in order to find more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the U.S.
• The Future of Children
  A collaboration of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution.
• Policy Evaluation Project
  Providing a robust base of evidence to assess new policy ideas and incorporate successful ideas into the policy formulation process.
• The Retirement Security Project
  Promoting efforts to make retirement saving easier and more rewarding, so as to improve retirement income prospects for American workers.

Tax and Fiscal Policy

• Budgeting for National Priorities
  Promoting greater fiscal responsibility by explaining the facts, developing new ideas, educating the public, and finding common ground among experts and policy makers.
• Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
  Clarifying the nation’s tax policy choices with timely, accessible analysis and facts for policymakers, journalists and researchers.

Across Multiple Areas 

• Center on Social and Economic Dynamics  
  Improving the understanding of complex issues such as health epidemics and potential policy responses to those crises through the use of computational modeling and simulation techniques.
• The Hamilton Project
  Producing evidence-based policy proposals to help create broad-based economic growth by harnessing the power of markets, enhancing individual economic security, and embracing a role for effective government.

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