In openfisca-uk, we have entities that are guaranteed to be completely hierachical. For example, a person can be a member of a benefit unit (nuclear family) and a household, but every person in the benefit unit will be in the same household. Variables at the benefit unit level often depend on properties of the household, and right now this is usually done via:
(for example, say household_region is at the household level, and benunit_region is at the benefit unit level)
by making the .household function available to group entities (e.g. benefit unit) which specify that their members will have the same household membership.
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openfisca-uk, we have entities that are guaranteed to be completely hierachical. For example, a person can be a member of a benefit unit (nuclear family) and a household, but every person in the benefit unit will be in the same household. Variables at the benefit unit level often depend on properties of the household, and right now this is usually done via: (for example, sayhousehold_regionis at the household level, andbenunit_regionis at the benefit unit level)I wonder if this could be simplified to:
by making the
.householdfunction available to group entities (e.g. benefit unit) which specify that their members will have the samehouseholdmembership.