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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 100-102

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... CITRO AND CHRISTINE M ROSS Evaluation of Alternative Months Procedures Confronting the same challenge of converting annual to monthly values for employment and income variables, microsimulation model developers have produced months routines that differ in a number of ways.
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... The current MATH ALLOY routine was developed to incorporate the findings from the ISDP. The new module resulted in increasing the estimate of households eligible for food stamps by 13 percent and people eligible for food stamps by 16 percent compared with the previous procedure (Lubitz and Doyle, 19863.6 No other evidence is available about the impact of the changed allocation procedures.
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From page 102...
... 9As discussed further in the section on calibration of the participation function, the March CPS has historically produced higher estimates of AFDC and food stamp recipients with earnings compared with administrative data. The current MONTHS routine exacerbate these discrepancies.
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  • labor force
  • months routine
  • food stamp
  • microsimulation models

  • eligible units
  • simulation models
  • food stamps
  • unearned income
  • employment status

  • stamp program
  • external validation
  • microsimulation model
  • participation function
  • benefit amount

  • months routines
  • administrative data
  • monthly income
  • units eligible
  • baseline file

  • alloy routine
  • public assistance
  • unit head
  • monthly employment
  • current months

  • filing unit
  • simulation model
  • income variables
  • reported annual
  • regression equations


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