Matt Jensen

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@donboyd5, I'm glad this method for customized growfactors is working well. I will look over that in more depth shortly, but first I wanted to remember the motivation for the...

On to the substance of this issue: I don't see anything wrong with the approach you're using. If it appears to be working now, that is excellent. One note, though,...

Would be neat to see how [recipe 6](http://taxcalc.pslmodels.org/recipes/recipe06.html) might look after these changes.

@nikhilwoodruff, thanks for opening this issue, and @MaxGhenis, thanks for your followup. The project welcomes issues unaccompanied by PRs as well as PRs addressing issues from those who didn't open...

> what does it mean for a parameter to be "unsafe"? One example is where neither the PUF-based nor CPS-based data files have the necessary variables to support the use...

Here is a review paper that I wrote with Aparna Mathur a few years ago on this topic. http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Tax-Notes-Mathur-Jensen-June-2011.pdf

Today there is an [article](https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-ultimately-pays-for-corporate-taxes-the-answer-may-color-the-republican-overhaul-1502184603) on this topic in the Wall Street Journal.

I agree that modeling changes to the corporate income tax, including the process that might lead those changes to impact labor productivity and therefore wages, could be a useful project...

@martinholmer said: > So, simply dividing up the assumed aggregate change in CIT revenue, and distributing the shares of the aggregate CIT revenue change across individuals, does not lead to...

@martinholmer, thanks very much for the extensive summary, and thanks again to @yuying27 for your excellent work on this project. @yuying27, if you have availability again later this fall or...