ubicenter/covid19

Stabilizing the poverty rate amid Covid-19 with UBI

ubi-center

Generates data for UBI Center's Plan Explorer tool and visualizations.

Installation

Install with:

pip install git+git://github.com/UBICenter/ubi-center.git

Questions

Contact the maintainer, Max Ghenis ([email protected]).

Citation

You may cite the source of your analysis as "ubicenter release #.#.#, author's calculations."

covid19's Issues

Add raw LaTeX files from Overleaf

Doesn't look to be a way to move them directly to an existing GitHub repo, so might just involve downloading the files.

Could be an opportunity to use try local tools and the tips in this guide: https://github.com/dspinellis/latex-advice

Add more detail to methodology section

Good feedback:

The only additional thing I would like to see more detailed in the document is the methodology. I mean, I think if you explain a little bit more what is a binary search algorithm or put the main relevant equations there, the document will be more self-contained and easy to understand.

Reference new code location in paper

From ubi-center/notebooks to this repo.

Move notebook and charts from ubi-center repo

Currently in https://github.com/UBICenter/ubi-center/tree/master/notebooks/covid

Here's a guide on moving files between repos while preserving history: https://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-another-preserving-history/

Use longitudinal data to estimate the (mis)targeting from means-testing on 2018/2019 income

Means-tested Covid-19 cash transfer proposals are based on 2018 or 2019 income, e.g. the GOP Senate plan.

Start with a transition matrix from eligibility to ineligibility, using either the ASEC (50% of households in any given ASEC are also surveyed the prior year) or the SIPP (longitudinal for up to 4 years, but less data support e.g. from IPUMS; use TPTOTINC for total income).

Then compare the means-tested proposals to UBIs in terms of poverty impact per dollar.

Add link at top of paper to see latest version

Make charts vector rather than bitmap

From https://github.com/dspinellis/latex-advice:

Use vector rather than bitmap images. So, avoid including a .jpeg or .png image if you can include a PDF created from vector data, e.g. by direct export from Inkscape or GraphViz or by converting an .svg file.