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>FWIW, the 2016 file on the NBER site is named "asec2016_pubuse_v3.dat" (same as on the Census site), rather than the "asec2016_pubuse.dat" that taxdata expects. Thanks for letting me know! The...

Thanks for doing the research on this, @donboyd5. I'm also annoyed with how long it takes the solver to finish running. I'll test out dropping this in later today!

@donboyd5, when I try to test your suggested changes I get this error: ``` ERROR: LoadError: type Parameters has no field IPM_IterationsLimit ``` Did you run into this at any...

@donboyd5 can you also tell me what Julia version you're using? I've been having trouble getting things running and I think it might have to do with the Julia/package versions.

Thanks, @donboyd5! I was able to get things going with a bit of work. It was just an issue with the `Project.toml` and `Manifest.toml` files. Running now

I've been running the current solver for ~24 hours to create new PUF weights and it still isn't finished so I'd like to say that I'm 100% in favor of...

> Does taxdata assume that once a household is identified as a filer/non-filer in the base year data that it retains that status forever (e.g., even if the blowup factors...

I like these high level ideas, @MaxGhenis. Lemme know if I can help flesh them out more in any way.

Completely speculating here, some of these may be dependent filers. Some could be issues with the data where ages are input wrong. I'd want to look into some of the...

@MaxGhenis yep that's the gist of it. [Here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1c2eREO1eQ7RDiD0MoFmu6FYPHpcHs1G--lxsVJxlMkY/edit?usp=sharing) is a presentation I put together in 2018 that provides a general overview of statistical matching as well. You're right that current...