October 2021 Newsletter

This is a monthly newsletter of PSL model releases, events, and updates.
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Demo Days

Recent presentations

• James Hiebert (University of Michigan and City of Philadelphia) demonstrated how to use the American Community Survey with Tax-Calculator.

Upcoming presentations

• Jason DeBacker (University of South Carolina) will showcase the new OG-Core platform.

OpenFisca-UK

A model of the United Kingdom's tax system based on the OpenFisca platform.

General updates

• PolicyEngine, a new web app built on OpenFisca-UK, was recently launched in the UK. The tool lets users experiment with proposals that reform the tax and benefit systems and see the impact on society and their households.

Tax-Calculator

A USA federal individual income and payroll tax microsimulation model

General updates

• Used in a new Tax Policy Center study on synthetic tax data.

• Behavioral-Responses is a partial-equilibrium behavioral module that works with Tax-Calculator.
• Capital-Cost-Recovery is a library with freely available capital cost recovery data across OECD countries.
• Cost-of-Capital-Calculator evaluates the effect of US federal taxes on businesses' investment incentives.
• microdf is a package for analyzing economic microdata as pandas DataFrames.
• OG-Core is a general overlapping-generations model for evaluating fiscal policies.
• OG-USA is an overlapping-generations model for evaluating fiscal policy in the United States.
• OpenFisca-UK is a model of the United Kingdom's tax system based on the OpenFisca platform.
• ParamTools is a library for parameter processing and validation with a focus on computational modeling projects.
• PCI-China is a machine learning algorithm that predicts China's policy changes by mining its state-controlled media.
• TaxData is a library that prepares microdata files to be used by Tax-Calculator.
• Tax-Brain is an integrator package for multiple open source tax models.
• Tax-Calculator is a USA federal individual income and payroll tax microsimulation model.
• Tax-Cruncher calculates federal tax liabilities from individual data under a range of policy scenarios.