codykallen

@andersonfrailey said: > I'll have our intern put together a summary of what the candidates have proposed so far with regards to a wealth tax For distributing the corporate income...

@donboyd5 asked: > Just to be sure I understand precisely, I am assuming @codykallen means that dollar-valued items on individual records (income components, deduction components) would grow at the rate...

@martinholmer asked: > are the published tabulations for each unit type (like income class and head age range) individually or are there tabulations by (for example, income class and head...

I've been working the last few days on doing a statistical matching between the PUF and the SCF. The work for this is over in a separate repo (https://github.com/codykallen/puf-scf-match), with...

@MattHJensen, I was under the impression that the CPS file was simply missing `e02000` and `e26270`. If `e02000` and `e26270` have been misclassified as `e00900`, then this does have serious...

@andersonfrailey, be careful when splitting `e00900` into `e00900` and `e02000`. If you increase `e02000` but not `e26270`, then you classify all of that as passive business income, whereas technically `e02000`...

@andersonfrailey, I would recommend splitting `e00900` into `e00900` (sole proprietorship income or loss), `e26270` (partnership and S corporation income or loss), and `e02000 - e26270` (passive business income or loss)....

@MattHJensen, do you think it would be worthwhile to get help from AEI's housing center? They have a _lot_ of microdata on mortgages. Even if they can't share the actual...

@martinholmer mentioned the PUF documentation. The documentation includes - e19200: Sch A: Total interest paid deduction (we use this) - p25380: Sch E: Rent/Royalty interest expenses (not in records_variables.json) -...

@martinholmer asked, > What is the relationship between p25380 and the other variables in records_variables.json? p25380 is part of Sch E. The only two measures we currently use from Sch...