The PolicyEngine US Python package contains a rules engine of the US tax-benefit system, and microdata generation for microsimulation analysis.

A comparative assessment of machine learning classification algorithms applied to poverty prediction

The UK's only open-source static tax-benefit microsimulation model.

Useful Stata routines

R client to the PIP API

The aim of the analysis is to create a high resolution map of poverty, income and literacy for El Salvador. The data on these three development indicators come from the 2017 household survey Encuesta de Hogares de Propositos Multiples (EHPM). While the survey data are only available for 1,664 segmentos, the lowest administrative units, the goal …

R client to the Povcalnet API

A tax-benefit model for Scotland

Stata module to download National Household Survey on Living Conditions and Poverty (ENAHO) data from INEI - Perú.

Search and download FAOSTAT bulk download files

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Stata client to the Povcalnet API

Tools for computing inequality estimates in the LIS Data Center LISSY environment.

Data on elevated blood lead level test results for St. Louis, MO

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) Lookup Tables

A Morpheus adapter that loads datasets via the World Bank Open Data API

Repository of data, code and supporting materials to repeat analysis performed by ODOT Research Unit documenting pedestrian injury disparities in Oregon. The standardized scoring uses an objective approach to categorizing Census tracts based on race, ethnicity, and poverty. These categories are then used to calculate population-based pedestrian …

Code to create tax filing units from the American Community Survey. Used to do simulation of federal tax policy change to evaluate changes in poverty rates.

Identifying which households in Costa Rica have the highest need for social welfare assistance

Code for Analysis of Poverty Using Tax-Calculator