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Read PolicyEngine's research on recent and proposed policy reforms, as well as technical and general updates from the organisation.

13 results

How We're Improving our API in 2025 cover image
technical
global

5 February 2025

How We're Improving our API in 2025

PolicyEngine's API target architecture for 2025.

Validation against the Survey of Personal Incomes cover image
uk
technical

14 August 2024

Validation against the Survey of Personal Incomes

Evaluating PolicyEngine's model performance against the UK SPI.

Autumn 2023 model calibration update cover image
uk
technical

4 December 2023

Autumn 2023 model calibration update

Evaluating PolicyEngine's model performance with the latest official statistics.

Revolutionizing policy analysis with AI cover image
global
technical

3 April 2023

Revolutionizing policy analysis with AI

Discover PolicyEngine's new GPT-4 integration and audience modes.

Breaking down policy impacts by wealth decile cover image
uk
technical

28 March 2023

Breaking down policy impacts by wealth decile

Income isn't everything.

Automate policy analysis with PolicyEngine's new ChatGPT integration cover image
global
technical

17 March 2023

Automate policy analysis with PolicyEngine's new ChatGPT integration

Score an economic impact in a few clicks. Write a report in one more.

Breaking down poverty impacts by sex cover image
uk
technical

8 March 2023

Breaking down poverty impacts by sex

PolicyEngine estimates the impact of customisable policy reforms on poverty — overall, by age, and now by sex.

From idea to impact: scoring a policy reform on the new PolicyEngine UK cover image
uk
technical

12 January 2023

From idea to impact: scoring a policy reform on the new PolicyEngine UK

A walkthrough of the new app on a UK tax-benefit reform.

From OpenFisca to PolicyEngine cover image
global
technical

10 November 2022

From OpenFisca to PolicyEngine

OpenFisca has catapulted our progress, and now we've forked it into our own microsimulation framework.

Stamp duties in PolicyEngine UK cover image
uk
technical

22 September 2022

Stamp duties in PolicyEngine UK

The Times reported yesterday that Prime Minister Liz Truss will announce plans to cut Stamp Duty this week. PolicyEngine now supports…

How developers can explore the PolicyEngine API cover image
global
technical

29 April 2022

How developers can explore the PolicyEngine API

The UK API explorer and US API explorer describe variables and policy parameters in our models.

How PolicyEngine estimates the effects of UK carbon taxes cover image
uk
technical

23 April 2022

How PolicyEngine estimates the effects of UK carbon taxes

By fusing datasets with machine learning, we empower anyone to integrate custom carbon taxes with other tax and benefit reforms.

How machine learning tools make PolicyEngine more accurate cover image
uk
technical

7 March 2022

How machine learning tools make PolicyEngine more accurate

Today, we're launching new survey weights that cut deviations from administrative statistics by 97%.

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