Description:
The aim of the course is to provide academics, policy practitioners and other interested users with an introduction to more advanced uses of EUROMOD. EUROMOD is a state-of-the-art tax-benefit microsimulation model linking micro-data from household surveys and policy legislation in a single user interface. EUROMOD allows for complex policy impact analysis, such as evaluations of policy reforms in terms of poverty, inequality, work incentives and government budgets, assessments of EU-wide policies or estimation of the impact of changing population characteristics on the redistributive effect of existing policies. EUROMOD covers all 27 EU Member States plus the UK.
The course will cover recent extensions of the EUROMOD model to include wealth-related policies and indirect taxes, different options for nowcasting the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the improved Hypothetical Household Tool for simulation of benefit entitlements and tax liabilities of user-defined individual profiles, advanced functions and online interfaces. Each session of the three-day course will be structured in a fist part with more traditional lectures, and a second part with a more interactive session, where participants will be able to discuss more technical issues with the lecturers.
Participants will be provided with a free copy of the latest public release of the model to be installed on their own personal computer.
Important: Please note that due to data access restrictions, the course will be using a synthetic data set. No access to data on real households can be granted on the basis of taking part in the course. We advise participants wanting to start using EUROMOD after the course with micro-datasets for any of the EU countries to follow the instructions here as soon as possible: https://www.microsimulation.ac… This can be done in advance of the course.
The summer school is organised by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, and the Centre for Social Policy Herman Deleeck (CSB) at the University of Antwerp, and is part of the InGRID activities.
The course is also advertised here.
Candidates to this school are expected to fill in the application form before 2 May 2021, including a motivation for attending the school.
All presentations will be made available as part of our training material.
Programme
Day 1 – Monday May 17th, 2021
14:30-17:30
Session 1: Policy extensions14:30 – 14:35
Welcome14:35 – 15:20
Simulating wealth-related policies in EUROMOD
Sarah Kuypers, CSB UAntwerpen15:20 – 16:05
Simulating indirect taxation in EUROMOD
Duygu Güner, KU Leuven16:05 – 16:15
Break16:15 – 17:30
Interactive session on wealth-related policies in EUROMOD
Sarah Kuypers, CSB UAntwerpen
Interactive session on indirect taxation in EUROMOD
Duygu Güner, KU Leuven
Day 2 – Tuesday May 18th, 2021
14:30 – 17:30
Session 2: Nowcasting and dynamic modelling: how to deal with shocks (COVID-19)14:35 – 15:20
Nowcasting on a monthly or a yearly basis?
Matteo Richiardi & Patryk Bronka, CeMPA UEssex15:20 – 16:05
Simulating labour market transitions in EUROMOD
Andrea Papini, Joint Research Centre Sevilla, European Commission16:05 – 16:1
Break16:15 – 17:30
Interactive session on nowcasting on a monthly or a yearly basis?
Matteo Richiardi & Patryk Bronka, CeMPA UEssex
Interactive session on baseline nowcasting modelling of Covid-19 in EUROMOD
Andrea Papini, Joint Research Centre Sevilla, European Commission
Day 3 – Wednesday May 19th, 2021
14:30-16:30
Session 3: New functions and tools14:30 – 14:35
Welcome14:35 – 15:00
The EUROMOD HHoT-tool for model family simulation
Elise Aerts, CSB UAntwerpen15:00 – 15:30
Advanced functions and online interface (EUROMOD Explore) in EUROMOD
Kostas Manios & Matteo Richiardi, CeMPA UEssex15:30 – 15:40
Break15:40 – 16:30
Interactive session on the EUROMOD HHoT-tool
Elise Aerts, CSB UAntwerpen
Interactive session on advanced functions & online interface (EUROMOD Explore) in EUROMOD
Kostas Manios & Matteo Richiardi, CeMPA UEssex