OpenRG is a network of experts that helps organizations implement open source tools through training, research support, technical papers, and consulting.
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2017
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Congrats to my friend and colleague @jasondebacker: NTA trifecta. Last week he won (with coauthors) best paper of 2024 in @JournalTax (Natl Tax Journal) AND best referee in 2024 (with Emilie Jackson). AND Jason was elected a board member of @NatlTax (Natl Tax Association).
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Congratulations to my colleague, @DonBoyd12, who won the Steven D. Gold award last week at the @NatlTax annual meeting. "The Gold Award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to state and local fiscal policy and have demonstrated a capacity to cross the boundaries between academic research and public policy making."
ntanet.org/2024/07/joan-youn…
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Perspective: @OpenRG's @MattHJensen provides evidence that the #IRS does not comply with its section 6103(p)(3)(C) reporting requirements.
He argues that the @jctgov has the statutory authority to correct this problem. taxnotes.co/3OfkMuW
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Carbon Tax and LVT destined for a #TaxBracket finals
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The last two days were excellent being together in person in Logan, Utah with the @cgousu staff from DC, Colorado, and Utah. A very dynamic, entrepreneurial, and nonpartisan place to work.
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Distributional analyses are a big deal. How does a policy change affect households that are rich, poor, old, young? How does a policy affect firms of different sizes in different industries? Very cool page @USCBO.
CBO created a new web page making its distributional analyses accessible in one place. cbo.gov/publication/58291
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Day 1 of @cgousu 50-state #microsimulation model #hackathon in Logan, Utah. @nikhil_woodruff @MaxGhenis @andersonfrailey @MattHJensen and Wes Smith.
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My first paper for @cgousu as a visiting scholar describes a proposed cash assistance program in Cambridge, MA: $500/mo for 18mo to families below 200% of the poverty line. I find it would both significantly cut poverty and worsen work incentives. 🧵 thecgo.org/research/how-does…
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Powerful point by @elidourado @cgousu in this post. I have argued other reasons why +borrowing during low interest rate periods was a bad idea. Eli argues that institutional inefficiency at the govt level dwarfs any interest rate incentives for borrowing.
thecgo.org/benchmark/state-c…
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Looking to try out our PolicyEngine US app to compute the impact of tax and benefit policy? Get started with this six-minute demo video, which shows how a SNAP reform would affect a single parent of one.
youtu.be/GUX665_cgbQ
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🚨🇺🇸 We're extremely excited to share POLICYENGINE US! 🇺🇸🚨
Now anyone can freely compute taxes and benefits, both under current law and customizable policy reforms. 🎉 blog.policyengine.org/policy…
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Tune in to see @jasondebacker talking about @PSLmodels and @MaxGhenis on @ThePolicyEngine (a @PSLFoundation sponsored project) at the @UCBITSS conference on Friday.
I'm looking forward to returning (virtually) to my alma mater on Friday to share how @ThePolicyEngine is improving transparency in public policy analysis.
Join the @UCBITSS Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences Annual Meeting here.
linkedin.com/events/10thbits…
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Our founders @MaxGhenis and @nikhil_woodruff wrote in @citizen_network about why they created PolicyEngine and what's next for the product.
"We envision a more inclusive, evidence-based future for tax and benefit policy."
citizen-network.org/library/…
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The steady but slow recovery of the U.S. labor market from the Feb. 2020 #COVID #recession. Current labor market (bold black) is better at this point of the recovery than the Great Depression (bold blue) and the Great Recession (pink), but still behind the other 12 recoveries.
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At the upcoming PSL Demo Day, Hank Doupe (@hankdoupe) will show how to deploy web applications on the Compute Studio platform. Join us on Monday at 11:30a.
pslmodels.org/events.html
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The Timber Moose Lodge is where I want to hold my next conference. Would be great for macro modeling of fiscal policy, open source policy modeling. @Baker_CPF @OpenRG @OSE_Lab @cgousu
Watch “Flythru video of America's Biggest Log Cabin” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/604484411
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How would the tax plan President Biden unveiled during the campaign impact the economy? The results depend on the economic assumptions you use to measure the effect of different policies. Learn more here about TPC's experiment with another tax model. tpc.io/3eL91KK
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Our first report in the UK, by @MaxGhenis @nikhil_woodruff @CharlesRBauman1 and Deepak Singh, simulates replacing the UK tax and benefit system with a 50% flat income tax, with the surplus returned as a UBI. Poverty would fall more than 30%. ubicenter.org/uk-blank-slate…
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🚨Paper alert🚨 "Block-Enhanced Precision Matrix Estimation for Large-Scale Datasets": doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2021.…
with Aryan Eftekhari, Dimosthenis Pasadakis(usi.to/vh8)
Matthias Bollhöfer (icm.tu-bs.de/~bolle/)
Olaf Schenk. @heclausanne