This subcontract will fund the effort of Dr. Joanne Hsu, which will include providing guidance on the maintenance and use of multiple national data sets to be used by the Research Team at the University of Colorado and Brookings to carry out the proposed research. We will need to produce analytic datasets suitable to address the aims of the project, which include health and financial data that are acquired by the Research Team and housed at the University of Colorado. Many of the data resources require substantial processing before they are ready for analysis and modeling. Dr. Hsu will develop processes and methodology for the processing of multiple datasets, as well as the design and interpretation of econometric modelling methods.