This package aims to simplify and productionise the use of PolicyEngine’s tax-benefit microsimulation models to flexibly produce useful information at scale, slotting into existing analysis pipelines while also standardising analysis.
We do this by:
Standardising around a set of core types that let us do policy analysis in an object-oriented way
Exemplifying this behaviour by using this package in all PolicyEngine’s production applications, and analyses
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Core concepts: Architecture, datasets, simulations, policies, outputs, entity mapping
Economic impact analysis: Full baseline-vs-reform comparison workflow
Advanced outputs: DecileImpact, Poverty, Inequality, IntraDecileImpact
Regions and scoping: Sub-national analysis (states, constituencies, districts)
UK tax-benefit model: Entities, parameters, reform examples
US tax-benefit model: Entities, parameters, reform examples
Examples: Complete working scripts
Visualisation: Publication-ready charts with Plotly
Development: Setup, testing, CI, architecture