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This volume takes stock of microsimulation models for analyzing tax and transfer programs by looking carefully at TRIM2, DYNASIM2, MAPSIT, PRISM, and MDM, some of the most prominent models in use by both U.S. and Canadian government policy offices today. Several examples of recent applications of these and other models are presented, as are important issues in the development and use of microsimulation modeling.

This volume takes stock of microsimulation models for analyzing tax and transfer programs by looking carefully at TRIM2, DYNASIM2, MAPSIT, PRISM, and MDM, some of the most prominent models in use by both U.S. and Canadian government policy offices today. Several examples of recent applications of these and other models are presented, as are important issues in the development and use of microsimulation modeling.

This book presents a software system that focuses on the impacts of tax and transfer systems on individual families, and the sensitivity to those impacts of specific provisions in those systems. MAPSIT (Modular Analysis Package for Systems of Income Transfers) permits fast, effective, low-cost analysis. It works and is in daily use in the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare.

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