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Run all calculations at the SPM unit level first, then map to person #20

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MaxGhenis opened this issue Jan 2, 2021 · 0 comments

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MaxGhenis commented Jan 2, 2021 •

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Suggested flow:

Remove taxes and transfers from SPM units, tallying up the total revenue from doing so
Add UBIs to SPM units based on revenue and total population
Calculate poverty gap by SPM unit
Map down change in SPM resources to the person level
Calculate poverty rate (by demographic) and share better off at the person level

See e.g. this will produce the incorrect result since taxes are by person but liabilities affect the full SPM unit:

us-calc/funding.py

Lines 238 to 240 in 36e9e34

    
           if 'income_taxes' in taxes: 
        
               funding -= (target_persons.fedtaxac * target_persons.asecwt).sum() 
        
               target_persons.new_spm_resources += target_persons.fedtaxac

MaxGhenis mentioned this issue

Results differ from flat tax analysis #21

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ngpsu22 closed this as completed

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