andersonfrailey

Here the C-TAM benefits are being merged onto the 2016 CPS file that is matched with the IRS-SOI PUF. My title was a bit unclear. By "Adding benefits to the...

@Amy-Xu the current problem with the CPS scripts is that AEI has let their SAS subscription expire so we can't run them to add new variables.

@martinholmer, my initial reaction is that test should work. For households with multiple tax units, we check to see if any of the units should be combined. It's possible that...

@martinholmer I agree. I'll post updates to this issue as I pin down the exact issue.

Briefly going back to your initial question in this issue, @martinholmer. >Shouldn't the value of XTOT be equal to the value of (nu18+n1820+n21) for every filing unit in both the...

That looks better. We control for number of dependents and filing type during our matching process so except in the cases where the unit is more than five people, everything...

@martinholmer asked: >OK. So, the 13,442 filing units in the new puf.csv file with XTOT > (nu18+n1820+n21) are still under investigation, right? Right. I've spent the day looking through the...

I've spent the past couple of days digging into this issue and wanted to give an update on what I've been able to find. The root of the issue is...

@MaxGhenis, I'll reopen this until I get some more time to look into the issue. I've got some work to do on Tax-Brain that I need to prioritize for now...

@codykallen , we aren't able to distinguish between married filing separately and married filing jointly in the CPS. In the match, married people in the CPS are matched to married...