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PSL Demo Day 56: Behavioral Responses in PolicyEngine

50:51

PSL Demo Day 55: The Budget Lab at Yale

46:46

PSL Demo Day 54: Distributing the Corporate Income Tax

19:35

Demo Day 53: OSPC's Payroll Tax Calculator

28:13

PSL Demo Day 52: New OG-Core features

17:43

PSL Demo Day 51: Using AI to enhance policy analysis

34:38

PSL Demo Day 57: Codera Analytics

Daan Steenkamp, CEO and Founder of Codera Analytics, shares the open sources tools his company offers to make data available and accessible to researchers, policy analysts, and those in business. Built on publicly available data sources and open source software, Codera offers EconData, a database of new and vintage economic data for South Africa. Codera also hosts models, such as their Nowcast model, and can build custom applications and models for clients.
Resources:
* codera.co.za
* Daan's recent talk on Democratizing Data, mentioned in the Demo Day: tinyurl.com/fn2s5bjz
#data #economics #opensource

Видео

PSL Demo Day 56: Behavioral Responses in PolicyEngine

50:51

PSL Demo Day 56: Behavioral Responses in PolicyEngine

Просмотров 383 месяца назад

Max Ghenis and Nikhil Woodruff walk through the methodology behind simulating labor supply responses to changes in after-tax wage rates and how users can implement these in PolicyEngine-US. Max and Nikhil highlight the quantitative significance of these responses on aggregate estimates and the importance of modeling both tax and benefit policy together. Resources: * Slides (with links to intera...

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PSL Demo Day 55: The Budget Lab at Yale

Просмотров 704 месяца назад

John Ricco (Yale) gives an introduction to the Budget Lab at Yale and their Tax-Simulator model. * Budget Lab Website: budgetlab.yale.edu/ * Budget Lab GitHub org: github.com/Budget-Lab-Yale #budget #opensource #taxpolicy

PSL Demo Day 54: Distributing the Corporate Income Tax

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PSL Demo Day 54: Distributing the Corporate Income Tax

Просмотров 225 месяцев назад

Jason DeBacker (U of SC and PSL Foundation) demonstrates a new functionality of Tax-Brain, an ability to distribute the corporate income tax. Resources: Tax-Brain docs: taxbrain.pslmodels.org Tax-Brain repo: github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Brain PSL Demo Day 4: How to use Tax-Brain with Anderson Frailey: ruclips.net/video/Zc_XEErfO5E/видео.html #PSLmodels, #tax, #opensource, #policy

Demo Day 53: OSPC's Payroll Tax Calculator

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Demo Day 53: OSPC's Payroll Tax Calculator

Просмотров 1455 месяцев назад

Bodi Yang (AEI) demonstrates the capabilities and usage of the Open Source Policy Center's (OSPC) Tax-Calculator-Payroll, which can be used to compute the payroll tax offset associated with changes in the employer contribution to payroll taxes. This tool allows for more accurate revenue estimates when simulating payroll tax changes with the Tax-Calculator model. * Documentation for the Tax-Calc...

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PSL Demo Day 52: New OG-Core features

Просмотров 496 месяцев назад

Jason DeBacker describes some new features in the OG-Core model; the ability to allow a number of parameters to be time varying. These recent extensions allows for significant flexibility to model through exogenous parameters a number of variables that can be thought to respond to policy, but aren't fully endogeneized in the model. Examples include policies affecting education, health, or the e...

PSL Demo Day 51: Using AI to enhance policy analysis

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PSL Demo Day 51: Using AI to enhance policy analysis

Просмотров 1027 месяцев назад

Nikhil Woodruff (CTO, PolicyEngine) demonstrates how PolicyEngine has used machine learning and AI to enhance policy analysis. Nikhil gives a brief overview of how PolicyEngine has used ML to create more accurate synthetic data, then delves in to the PolicyEngine-Chat GPT plugin. He provides real time examples of using GPT-4 to create text summarizing the model output and using GPT-4 to run Pol...

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PSL Demo Day 50: NYC Open Data

Просмотров 2010 месяцев назад

Zachary Feder (City of New York) discusses the history and successes of New York City's Open Data, an office of the city government that makes data accessible to all. These data are then used across government agencies, by journalists, activists, researchers, and others to improve city services and the lives of those living, working, and visiting NYC. Zachary shows how you can access these data...

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PSL Demo Day 49: Jupyteach

Просмотров 6810 месяцев назад

Spencer Lyon (Valorum Data) discusses and demonstrates the Jupyteach platform, a learning management system for teaching data science, economics or other topics in Python. This new platform has been used by QuantEcon, NYU, Peking University and other institutions to teach large classes through interactive lessons. One could also tailor these tools to produce custom training programs. #datascien...

Demo Day 48: NOAA's Open-Source JABBA Model

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Demo Day 48: NOAA's Open-Source JABBA Model

Просмотров 5511 месяцев назад

Maia Sosa Kapur (NOAA) describes the JABBA model, which is used for fisheries management policies and research. Maia relates the science behind the model, but also important lessons for open source software development more generally, as well as NOAA's embrace of open source tools. * JABBA model on GitHub: github.com/jabbamodel/JABBA * JABBA on NOAA: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/peer-reviewe...

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Demo Day 47: DemocracyLab

Просмотров 1811 месяцев назад

Mark Frischmuth, Founder and Executive Director of DemocracyLab, describes how DemocracyLab brings together tech-for-good projects with volunteers. Mark also shares the origin story of DemocracyLab and how it grew from his original vision to what it is now a platform that serves hundreds of projects across the globe and that has brought the talents of thousands of volunteers to bear on importan...

PSL Demo Day 46: 2i2c, Building a Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education

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PSL Demo Day 46: 2i2c, Building a Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education

Просмотров 141Год назад

Chris Holdgraf ( choldgraf), Executive Director of 2i2c (2i2c.org) talks about 2i2c's mission, successes, and the future of open science in education and research. He also touches on Project Jupyter and BinderHub, both of which he's also involved with. #opensource #openscience #cloudcomputing #jupyter Links related to the presentation: * Chris' slides: bit.ly/2023-10-2i2c-overview * ...

PSL Demo Day 45: CBO's Open Source Modeling

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PSL Demo Day 45: CBO's Open Source Modeling

Просмотров 47Год назад

Kevin Perese (Senior Advisor) gives an update on CBO's efforts to be transparent highlights their open source models. Dorian Carloni (Principal Analyst) then gives a demonstration of the captax model, CBO's open source model of effective tax rates on capital. * CBO's captax model: github.com/US-CBO/captax * CBO transparency efforts: www.cbo.gov/publication/58930 * CBO Interactive force structur...

PSL Demo Day 43: A Python module of UN population data

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PSL Demo Day 43: A Python module of UN population data

Просмотров 75Год назад

Richard W. Evans (CGO) shares work he's done to build a Python module to read and extrapolate UN Population Prospects data for macroeconomic modeling purposes. Resources: * Rick's slides: tinyurl.com/5ys9ps6z * Colab notebook: tinyurl.com/5t32cepx * OG-ZAF model: github.com/EAPD-DRB/OG-ZAF * OG-Core model: github.com/PSLmodels/OG-Core * UN population data: population.un.org/wpp/ * Rick's websit...

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Demo Day 42: Allegheny County Analytics

Просмотров 26Год назад

Erin Dalton (Allegheny County DHS) discuses their efforts to bring data to the people. This includes individualized data portals, geographic analytics to understand community wide needs, and opening up their risk assessment models to public scrutiny. Allegheny County has been a leader in this regard and it has fostered trust and improved outcomes as a result. Resources: * Allegheny County Analy...