Policy Simulation Library Blog

2023: A year in review

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psl-foundation
Highlights from the Policy Simulation Library in 2023.
Dec 28, 2023
Jason DeBacker

2022: A year in review

psl
psl-foundation
Highlights from the Policy Simulation Library in 2022.
Dec 31, 2022
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: How does targeted cash assistance affect incentives to work?

demo-days
benefits
us
How a proposed program in Cambridge, Massachusetts would affect poverty and incentives.
Jul 14, 2022
Max Ghenis

 

Demo Day: Getting Started with GitHub

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github
git
workflow
getting-started
The basics of forking and cloning repositories and working on branches.
Jun 28, 2022
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Analyzing tax competitiveness with Cost-of-Capital-Calculator

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cost-of-capital-calculator
business-taxation
corporate-income-tax
taxes
Using Cost-of-Capital-Calculator with data on international business tax policies.
Apr 18, 2022
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Modeling taxes and benefits with the PolicyEngine US web app

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apps
taxes
benefits
us
PolicyEngine US is a new web app for computing the impact of US tax and benefit policy.
Apr 12, 2022
Max Ghenis

Policy Simulation Library DC Workshop: Open source tools for analyzing tax policy

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PSL-Foundation
Workshop
Washington, DC open-source modeling workshop, March 25, 2022, 8:30am-1:00pm, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.
Mar 3, 2022
Jason DeBacker

2021: A year in review

psl
psl-foundation
Highlights from the Policy Simulation Library in 2021.
Dec 28, 2021
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Using synthimpute for data fusion

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python
data-fusion
synthimpute
The synthimpute Python package fuses and synthesizes economic datasets with machine learning.
Dec 8, 2021
Max Ghenis

 

Demo Day: The OG-Core platform

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python
macroeconomics
overlapping-generations
A Python platform for building country-specific overlapping generations general equilibrium models.
Nov 1, 2021
Jason DeBacker

Demo Day: Deploying apps on Compute Studio

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policy-simulation-library
compute-studio
How to deploy apps on Compute Studio using the new automated deployments feature.
Sep 20, 2021
Hank Doupe

 

Demo Day: Unit testing for open source projects

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R
Python
unit-testing
How to ensure that individual functions do what you expect.
Aug 9, 2021
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Constructing tax data for the 50 states

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tax
data
us
A new dataset to facilitate state-level analysis of federal tax reforms.
Jul 16, 2021
Don Boyd

Demo Day: Using the TaxBrain Python API

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individual-income-tax
tax-brain
tax-calculator
A programmatic interface to compute the impact of tax reform.
Jun 14, 2021
Anderson Frailey

 

Demo Day: Updating Jupyter Book documentation with GitHub Actions

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jupyter-book
GH-actions
documentation
How to keep interactive programmatic notebook-based documentation up-to-date in your pull request workflow.
May 17, 2021
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Producing stacked revenue estimates with the Tax-Calculator Python API

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individual-income-tax
tax-brain
tax-calculator
How to evaluate the cumulative effects of a multi-part tax reform.
Apr 5, 2021
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Stitching together apps on Compute Studio

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PSL
Creating an app with the Compute Studio API.
Mar 8, 2021
Hank Doupe

 

Demo Day: Moving policy reform files from Tax-Brain to Tax-Cruncher

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How to move reforms between a tax-unit-level and society-wide model with the Compute.Studio API.
Mar 2, 2021
Matt Jensen

 

Demo Day: Contributing to PSL projects

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PSL
git
github
How to help software projects in the Policy Simulation Library.
Mar 2, 2021
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Running the scf and microdf Python packages in Google Colab

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microdf
scf
Analyzing US wealth data in a web-based Python notebook.
Jan 29, 2021
Max Ghenis

Demo Day: The OG-USA macroeconomic model of U.S. fiscal policy

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OG-USA
Tax-Calculator
open-source
policy-simulation-library
compute-studio
us
How to model the macroeconomic effects of tax reform with a web app.
Jan 28, 2021
Richard W. Evans

 

Demo Day: Tax-Brain

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individual-income-tax
tax-brain
us
Computing the impact of US tax reform with the Tax-Brain web-app.
Dec 23, 2020
Anderson Frailey

2020: A year in review

psl
psl-foundation
Highlights from the Policy Simulation Library in 2020.
Dec 23, 2020
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Cost-of-Capital-Calculator Web Application

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cost-of-capital-calculator
business-taxation
corporate-income-tax
Computing the impact of taxes on business investment incentives under alternative policy scenarios.
Dec 3, 2020
Jason DeBacker

 

Demo Day: Tax-Cruncher

demo-days
individual-income-tax
tax-cruncher
How to calculate a taxpayer’s liabilities under current law and under a policy reform.
Nov 23, 2020
Peter Metz

 

Demo Day: Building policy reform files

demo-days
The first in Policy Simulation Library’s new live demo series describes specifying tax reforms.
Nov 18, 2020
Matt Jensen

 

Introducing the PSL Blog

announcements
A new way to follow models in the Policy Simulation Library catalog.
Nov 6, 2020
Max Ghenis
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