Research and analysis
Read PolicyEngine's research on recent and proposed policy reforms, as well as technical and general updates from the organisation.
17 results
February 5, 2025
How We're Improving our API in 2025
PolicyEngine's API target architecture for 2025.
March 25, 2024
Beta-launch: PolicyEngine's enhanced microdata for policy analysis
By integrating and calibrating multiple datasets, PolicyEngine makes world-class tax-benefit microsimulation modeling available to anyone.
June 19, 2023
Unveiling poverty impacts by race and ethnicity
A new feature from PolicyEngine reveals how customizable tax and benefit reforms affect poverty rates for Black, White, Hispanic, and other Americans.
May 2, 2023
How PolicyEngine shaped the outcome of the $1 million bet James Medlock won today
Our free tax calculator helped determine Balaji Srinivasan's $500,000 payments to Medlock and GiveDirectly.
April 3, 2023
Revolutionizing policy analysis with AI
Discover PolicyEngine's new GPT-4 integration and audience modes.
March 24, 2023
FiscalSim and PolicyEngine: Emphasizing collaboration and open-source acknowledgment
The Center for Growth and Opportunity launches FiscalSim, a US policy-computing web app drawing heavily from PolicyEngine's work.
March 23, 2023
How much should James Medlock donate to GiveDirectly?
We built a mini-app with the policyengine-us Python package to crunch the implications of a Twitter bet.
March 17, 2023
Automate policy analysis with PolicyEngine's new ChatGPT integration
Score an economic impact in a few clicks. Write a report in one more.
March 8, 2023
Breaking down poverty impacts by sex
PolicyEngine estimates the impact of customizable policy reforms on poverty — overall, by age, and now by sex.
January 12, 2023
From idea to impact: scoring a policy reform on the new PolicyEngine US
A walkthrough of the new app on a US tax-benefit reform.
December 28, 2022
Enhancing the Current Population Survey for policy analysis
We've used modern data science techniques to make PolicyEngine the UK's most accurate microsimulation model. In 2023, we'll do the same in the US.
December 23, 2022
Updating PolicyEngine to reflect SNAP reform in the omnibus bill
A step-by-step guide to syncing our code with the latest legislation.
November 10, 2022
From OpenFisca to PolicyEngine
OpenFisca has catapulted our progress, and now we've forked it into our own microsimulation framework.
September 27, 2022
How to simulate basic and guaranteed income policies in PolicyEngine US
From universal basic income to age-dependent means-tested payments, we've got you covered.
August 10, 2022
PolicyEngine launches in Washington state
Washingtonians can now compute the impacts of the Working Families Tax Credit and federal reforms.
July 1, 2022
The new PolicyEngine US Population Impact page
You design the policy. We compute the poverty, inequality, and budgetary impacts.
April 29, 2022
How developers can explore the PolicyEngine API
The UK API explorer and US API explorer describe variables and policy parameters in our models.
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