tag : Microsimulation

The Scottish Budget was on Tuesday. I helped the Future Economy Scotland (FES) people do some instant analysis. Kind of fun: took me back a little to when IFS used to do live analysis of the UK Budget for the BBC.

Here’s the Essex Review of Scotben. All very fair, I think.

Here’s a spreadsheet with some rough workings on how well Scotben works in aggregate, against the sources I can pull together on revenues, caseloads and expenditures.

I’ve finished a model comparison exercise with UKMod. UKMod people are writing an evaluation of ScotBen for a project I’m working on.

I’ve written a short note on the model for a project I’m starting this week.

As an experiment, this was written with typst which I’m really impressed with - output looks very pretty and I like the fact that the markup system is a bit fussier and more precise than markdown, but still pretty easy to learn.

Source is here.