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PSLmodels / OG-Core

An overlapping generations model framework for evaluating fiscal policies.
https://pslmodels.github.io/OG-Core/
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Precompute and store txfunc .pkl files #524

Closed rickecon closed 4 years ago

rickecon commented 4 years ago

Because estimating the tax function parameters from the microsimulation model in txfunc.py takes a significant amount of computation time, this issue proposes to precompute the baseline estimated tax functions for various start years and for both the proprietary IRS Public Use File (PUF) and for the publicly available with OG-USA Current Population Survey (CPS) file. These .pkl files take very little hard drive space, and each represents at least an hour of computation time.

I propose that we store these files in a new OG-USA/ogusa/data/txfuncs/ directory. @jdebacker

jdebacker commented 4 years ago

Relatedly, besides caching some precomputed tax functions in the repo, let's also allow the user to pass a path to where the tax functions they want to use are stored, if run_micro=False.

jdebacker commented 4 years ago

These precomputed tax functions were added in PR #544.