An open source software library for public policy decision-making
Joined August 2018
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Policy Simulation Library retweeted
30 Dec 2024
From Budget analysis to election calculators, see how PolicyEngine helped inform the national conversation in 2024.
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8 Nov 2024
Last week's Demo Day featured Vincent Dadam from U. of Pretoria on the South African Modeling Network. Excellent discussion of this ambitious project to promote open science:
youtu.be/4Q307AeJnE4
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7 Nov 2024
In a recent PSL Demo Day, @jasondebacker provides an example of using @TensorFlow JS to serve an ML model on a webpage.
Find the video on our YouTube channel:
youtu.be/mfqmSfLnB3o
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28 Oct 2024
Coming up at noon ET today.
22 Oct 2024
Mark your calendars: Vincent Dadam will be with us next week, Oct 28, to talk about the South African Modeling Network, a community of scientists sharing tools to understand the SA economy.
meetup.com/psl-meetup/events…
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22 Oct 2024
Mark your calendars: Vincent Dadam will be with us next week, Oct 28, to talk about the South African Modeling Network, a community of scientists sharing tools to understand the SA economy.
meetup.com/psl-meetup/events…
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19 Sep 2024
Our latest Demo Day is up on YouTube. Hear from @CoderaAnalytics CEO Daan Steenkamp on how they leverage open source tools to make data more accessible. Daan also touches on their business model, which serves clients and the public interest.
youtube.com/watch?v=IJIGBWe7…
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16 Sep 2024
Coming up at Noon ET today!
11 Sep 2024
Our Demo Day series resumes on Monday, Sept 16 with Daan Steenkamp, CEO of @CoderaAnalytics. Join us at noon ET to hear how Codera leverages open source tools to provide data to policymakers, business, researchers, and the public.
meetup.com/psl-meetup/events…
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11 Sep 2024
Our Demo Day series resumes on Monday, Sept 16 with Daan Steenkamp, CEO of @CoderaAnalytics. Join us at noon ET to hear how Codera leverages open source tools to provide data to policymakers, business, researchers, and the public.
meetup.com/psl-meetup/events…
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Policy Simulation Library retweeted
18 Aug 2024
New analysis of @KamalaHarris's Child Tax Credit proposal:
* $117B cost in 2025
* Benefits 44% of population
* Cuts child poverty by 31%
* Reduces Gini index by 1.4%
Behavioral responses shift these numbers by 5-6%.
Read the full breakdown: policyengine.org/us/research…
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20 Jun 2024
ICYMI, @MaxGhenis and @nikhil_woodruff gave a great demo of a new feature in @ThePolicyEngine; the ability to analyze behavioral responses to incentives implicit in the tax-benefit system.
Check it out on YouTube:
youtu.be/l4e4NUjwP-E?si=AKCz…
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18 Jun 2024
Coming up today at noon!
13 Jun 2024
Join us next week, at noon ET on Tuesday, June 18 for a PSL Demo Day: Modeling Behavioral Responses in @PolicyEngineUS with @MaxGhenis and @nikhil_woodruff!
Zoom info on Meetup or at PSLmodels.org/events
meetup.com/psl-meetup/events…
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13 Jun 2024
Join us next week, at noon ET on Tuesday, June 18 for a PSL Demo Day: Modeling Behavioral Responses in @PolicyEngineUS with @MaxGhenis and @nikhil_woodruff!
Zoom info on Meetup or at PSLmodels.org/events
meetup.com/psl-meetup/events…
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6 Jun 2024
Tax-Calculator users: Version 4.0.0 has just been released on @pypi and @condaforge!
There are a number of new enhancements, such as the separation of the employer and employee portion of payroll taxes (useful e.g. to analyze payroll tax offsets)
taxcalc.pslmodels.org
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16 May 2024
Great introduction to the Budget Lab at Yale and their Tax-Simulator model by @riccoja in our Demo Day series. If you missed it Monday, check it out on YouTube:
youtu.be/A3UqjBE_vFw?si=z4uI…
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Policy Simulation Library retweeted
15 May 2024
Last week, our CEO @MaxGhenis showcased how PolicyEngine integrates AI into our platform at the @NatlTax Spring Symposium. From enhancing microdata with gradient descent to answering computational policy questions with LLMs, we’re pushing the boundaries of policy analysis.
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13 May 2024
Coming up at noon ET today!
7 May 2024
Coming up next week: PSL Demo Day: The Budget Lab at Yale. John Ricco on this new org and how they're leveraging open source tools to produce research and analysis of US fiscal policy. May 13 at noon ET. Link on Meetup or plsmodels.org
meetup.com/psl-meetup/events…
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7 May 2024
Coming up next week: PSL Demo Day: The Budget Lab at Yale. John Ricco on this new org and how they're leveraging open source tools to produce research and analysis of US fiscal policy. May 13 at noon ET. Link on Meetup or plsmodels.org
meetup.com/psl-meetup/events…
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3 May 2024
Our most recent Demo Day features @jasondebacker sharing an update to the Tax-Brain model, an ability to analyze the incidence of the corporate income tax.
youtu.be/5ZWKKbORrE8?si=aETG…
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24 Apr 2024
ICYMI, check out @bodi_yang on the payroll tax calculator model he developed @OSPCatAEI on YouTube. A great presentation on the OSPC models and this new tool to correctly account for payroll tax offsets when doing revenue estimates.
youtu.be/N2bINtsRB0c
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