grahamstark / tax_benefit_model_components

Code used to build microsimulation models, mostly in the Ada language

Microsimulation Model Components

This is a moderately large collection of code used to build microsimulation models, mostly in the Ada language.

It includes:

• Several specialist tabulators
• An implementation of a Piecewise Linear Budget Constraint generator (see: http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/2063)
• Interfaces to various large scale sample survey datasets;
• Utilities for building web interfaces in Ada;
• Affordability Indexes;
• Inequality Measures;
• Data Re-Weighting routines
• Tax Calculators; and
• Optimisation Routines.

There is also an experimental complete South African tax benefit model, and some, but not all, of the code required for a UK Tax Benefit model.

We've taken the liberty of bundling four useful libraries with this code. We're very grateful to the original authors:

• Strings Edit by by Dmitry A.Kazakov (http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de); see http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/strings_edit.htm
• Zip-Ada by by Gautier de Montmollin (http://sourceforge.net/users/gdemont/); see http://unzip-ada.sourceforge.net/
• Numeric IO by by John P Woodruff (mailto:[e-mail]); see http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/reusable_code.htm
• XIA (XPath In Ada) by by Marc A. Criley (mailto:[e-mail]); see http://www.mckae.com/xia.html

Contact: Graham Stark ([e-mail])

See: http://virtual-worlds-research.com