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Behind the scenes: Meet our tax-benefit microsimulation team in Viet Nam!
How can Vietnamese policymakers improve their policy choices related to social protection and tax policies? Who are the experts providing evidence on different policy scenarios and their pros and cons to local decision makers?...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Microsimulation ImputationJournal Article
The impact of indirect tax on income distribution and poverty in TanzaniaThis study analyses the impacts of indirect tax benefits policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by applying a standard static microsimulation model TAZMOD v1.8...
Income distribution SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulationTechnical Note
Feasibility study: simulating the impacts of farm subsidies on poverty and inequality in African countriesAgricultural subsidies may have significant productive and distributional consequences, and policy-makers need to be able to assess these impacts as a part of the overall tax and benefit policy...
Agricultural policy Subsidies TaxationJournal Article
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–beneft policies during the COVID‑19 pandemic: Evidence from EcuadorTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | By combining household survey data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with detailed tax-benefit simulations, this paper quantifies the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax-benefit poli...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyJournal Article
Income distribution and the potential of redistributive systems in Africa: A decomposition approachTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are expanding in order to finance increasing public spending...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policy MicrosimulationWorking Paper
The effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives: A microsimulation analysis on selected African countriesAlthough the effect of fiscal drag is well studied in the industrialized world, empirical evidence from developing economies remains limited...
Inflation Income tax Fiscal dragTechnical Note
Full-year adjustment for modelling COVID-19 policies in SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation modelsThis technical note presents a modelling approach used in Lastunen et al. (2021) where tax and benefit policies are scaled to reflect their actual duration during a single calendar year...
COVID-19 Tax-benefit microsimulation PovertyTechnical Note
Iterative proportional fitting for reweighting input data in SOUTHMOD microsimulation modelsThis note describes how the counterfactual datasets in the working paper by Lastunen et al. (2021) have been reweighted, for each country analysed, to the ‘pre-crisis’ time point of 31 March 2020...
COVID-19 SOUTHMOD MicrosimulationReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v2.0This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationTechnical Note
Top income adjustments and tax reforms in Ecuador: an application of ECUAMODThis technical note has been produced alongside a WIDER working paper assessing the effects on income inequality and income tax simulations of adjusting top incomes of employees in survey data based on administrative tax records in Ecuador...
Top incomes Tax data Tax reformTechnical Note
Unemployment insurance and income protection in Ecuador: an application of ECUAMODThis note has been produced alongside a WIDER working paper assessing the effect of the Unemployment Insurance benefit on income protection in Ecuador...
Unemployment insurance Income protection MicrosimulationWorking Paper
Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling: Imputing employment income in Tanzania and ZambiaThe quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or implausible values...
Income Imputation MicrosimulationTechnical Note
Integration of indirect taxation to GHAMODThis note, with emphasis on VAT and excise taxes, illustrates how indirect taxes are modelled in the context of GHAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana...
Taxes Microsimulation Value-added taxWorking Paper
Simulating personal income tax in South Africa using administrative data and survey data: A comparison of PITMOD and SAMOD for tax year 2018In this paper we explore South Africa’s personal income tax system using two microsimulation models...
Microsimulation Personal income tax Income distributionBlog
Ecuador’s social protection system failed during the pandemic: It needs a rethinkHousehold incomes in Ecuador were badly hit by the pandemic, despite the government’s emergency grant to families...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyWorking Paper
Assessing the distributional impact of lowering the value-added tax rate for standard-rated items in Tanzania and options for recouping revenue lossesThis paper explores the distributional impact of lowering the value-added tax rate for standard-rated items in Tanzania Mainland...
Value-added tax Microsimulation Redistribution