policyengine-microsimulation

What problem does it solve?

Policy analysis and budget forecasting for reform scenarios require robust, population-level impact assessments that correctly account for weighting and distribution across households and individuals. This skill provides an end-to-end microsimulation workflow to compare baseline and reform scenarios, producing weighted outcomes such as income, poverty, and budgetary effects.

Core Features & Use Cases

• End-to-end microsimulation for national and state-level policy analyses.
• Supports reforms through Reform objects and parameter exploration to assess fiscal and distributional impacts.
• Generates weighted MicroSeries outputs (income, poverty indicators, inequality metrics) with entity mapping (household, person, SPMs) for downstream statistics.

Quick Start

Instantiate a baseline Microsimulation and a reform, run calc() on key variables for a chosen year, and compare the results.