Open Source Policy Center

This week's newsletter features a new paper from @kpomerleau using Cost-of-Capital Calculator's methodology, a new report from @TheUBICenter using Tax-Brain and a new @PSLmodels Demo Day featuring @jasondebacker. ospc.org/newsletter0407…

Just published in #JOSS_theOJ: 'seaborn: statistical data visualization' doi.org/10.21105/joss.…

From @TheUBICenter: @MaxGhenis uses Tax-Brain to estimate the budgetary impact of California's new basic income bill. blog.ubicenter.org/20210403/calif…

At the upcoming PSL Demo Day on Monday, April 5, @jasondebacker will show how to use the Tax-Brain Python API to easily stack tax provisions to create item-by-item analysis of large proposals. pslmodels.org/events.html

This week's newsletter features updates to Tax-Calculator to analyze the American Rescue Plan, a new webapp from @AlexBrill_DC @kpomerleau and @Grant_Seiter analyzing the ARP and a new @PSLmodels Demo Day. ospc.org/newsletter0324…

Monday's Demo Day will feature @MaxGhenis of @TheUBICenter. He'll illustrate how to use the Black code formatter to save time and improve readability of code. Join us on March 22 at 11:30 am ET. pslmodels.org/events.html

This week's newsletter features a new Tax-Calculator update, a new web app from @kpomerleau, @AlexBrill_DC & @Grant_Seiter, and a new addition to the @PSLmodels catalog. ospc.org/newsletter0310…

New blog out today: Pick your Child Tax Credit aei.org/economics/pick… via @AEI @AEIecon @OSPCatAEI with @kpomerleau and @Grant_Seiter

New to open source? Check out the latest PSL Blog post from @jasondebacker on contributing to PSL projects. blog.pslmodels.org/demo-day-8-con…

Taxdata is the latest addition to the PSL Catalog. Written in Python and Julia, Taxdata prepares microdata for tax policy analysis. github.com/PSLmodels/taxd…

The authors utilize @OSPCatAEI's federal income and payroll tax microsimulation model, Tax-Calculator. All code is open source and available at github.com/grantseiter/Ta…

This week's newsletter features a new report from @AlexBrill_DC and @kpomerleau, a new project addition to the OSPC, and open-source flight software on the @NASAJPL @NASAPersevere rover. ospc.org/newsletter0224…

New @AEIecon paper on the tax benefits for households with children. @AlexBrill_DC, @Grant_Seiter, and I provide an overview of current law and analyze some of the recent proposals to expand them. aei.org/research-produ…

If you missed our discussion on child allowances and the Family Security Act yesterday, you can see the recording at youtu.be/tLKscjH1cB4.

This week's newsletter features a new @PSLmodels Demo Day, a report on Romney's Child Allowance plan from @NiskanenCenter and an open-source tool for tracking carbon emissions from compute. ospc.org/newsletter0210…

Join us for tomorrow's PSL Demo Day at 11:30a ET where @MattHJensen will show how to use the Compute Studio API to seamlessly analyze a policy reform with multiple PSL models. pslmodels.org/events.html

From the PSL Blog: @MaxGhenis recaps last week's Demo Day on extracting and analyzing SCF data in Python. blog.pslmodels.org/demo-day-6-scf…

From the PSL Blog: @rickecon reflects on the value of the PSL community and recaps his recent Demo Day on OG-USA –– complete with a description of the model and a note on using the web application. blog.pslmodels.org/demo-day-5-how…

At the upcoming PSL Demo Day, @MaxGhenis will show how to use the scf and microdf Python packages to analyze US wealth data. Join us on Monday at 11:30AM ET. pslmodels.org/events.html

For our first Demo Day of 2021, @RickEcon will present OG-USA, an overlapping-generations model for evaluating fiscal policy. Join us tomorrow at 11:30a ET to get up-and-running with OG-USA. calendar.google.com/event?action=T…