Jason DeBacker

@Raeda_Anderson @UsmanovGeorge @DrEricRWright @zra_research @AppDemography @PasciutiDaniel @Dcollier74 @DanImmergluck @gmvelarde85 @j_morrrrow @jdbrooks15 @Jenn_A_Andersen @ahyde110 @JDaltonStevens @Stata @shiri_noy @zakiyaluna @FTMathteacher It's great to share resources like this. Here's an alternative using Python in a Colab notebook that does the same with about 4 lines of working code: colab.research.google.com/drive/1MwX3Z_K…

^ code you might want @UsmanovGeorge @DrEricRWright @zra_research @AppDemography @PasciutiDaniel @Dcollier74 @DanImmergluck @zra_research @gmvelarde85 @j_morrrrow @jdbrooks15 @Jenn_A_Andersen @ahyde110 @JDaltonStevens @Stata @shiri_noy @zakiyaluna @FTMathteacher @Dcollier74

I spent all day making code to convert zip codes to county FIP codes to Rural Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC) to rurality level in Stata. It took ~57,000 lines of code. Sharing it here so y'all do not have to remake it. Tagging data nerds in the comments. drive.google.com/file/d/1O_LRfN…

Check out the new US population impact pages from @ThePolicyEngine, where you can simulate tax and benefit policies' aggregate effects. blog.policyengine.org/the-new-policy…

🎉 It's official, PSL Foundation is a tax-exempt entity under IRC 501(c)(3)! We look forward to being better able to support @PSLmodels and transparency and reproducibility in public policy analysis with this status!

@Doreltwt @MaxGhenis If you want to design reforms for the US tax system, you can use the Tax-Brain (population results) and Tax-Cruncher (individual results) web apps: compute.studio/PSLmodels/Tax-…

@MaxGhenis Is there a US one?

Insanely excited that we've launched PolicyEngine UK. For the first time ever, members of the public can design a reform to the tax and benefit system, then see how it would affect the population and their own household. ubicenter.org/introducing-po…

🚨 New working paper (w @ChrisMHerbst) 🚨 How responsive is the child care market to changing economic conditions? How does quality change over the business cycle? 🧵 ⬇️

@JaminSpeer Here was my best sales pitch from when I was at a TN Board of Regents School and we had the same struggle: jasondebacker.com/pdfs/WhyEconMa…