RUSMOD

RUSMOD is a microsimulation model calibrated to the specification of the Russian economy and the Russian fiscal system. In capturing the complexity of the Russian tax-benefit system, RUSMOD permits simulation of most of the existing monetary programs implemented at federal and regional levels for the nationally and regionally representative samples of the population.

History:

The current version of RUSMOD covers 2007, 2010, 2017-2021 policy years. RUSMOD was built as a spin-off of EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for EU-27 plus the UK (Sutherland and Figari 2013). The process of development and various previous applications of RUSMOD are documented in Popova (2012), Popova (2013), Popova (2016), Matytsin, Popova et al. (2019). The current version of the model uses two input datasets: the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of the Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) and the Survey of Incomes of the Population and Participation in Social Programs (HIS) carried out by the national statistics agency (Rosstat).

Current team members:

Daria Popova; Mikhail Matytsin

Status:

Maintained

Content accessibility:

• Private, access restricted

Data accessibility:

• Private
Notes: The original datasets are freely available from the data providers

Input data sources:

• Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE)
• Survey of Incomes of the Population and Participation in Social Programs (HIS) by Rosstat

Model outputs:

• Popova D. Constructing the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia - RUSMOD / Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. Series EM "EUROMOD Working Paper Series". 2012. No. 7
• Popova D. Impact assessment of alternative reforms of Child Allowances using RUSMOD – the static tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia // International Journal of Microsimulation. 2013. Vol. 6. No. 1. P. 122-156
• Popova D. Distributional impacts of cash allowances for children: a microsimulation analysis for Russia and Europe // Journal of European Social Policy. 2016. Vol. 26. No. 3. P. 248-267
• Matytsin M., Popova D., Freije S. (2019) RUSMOD. A Tool for Distributional Analysis in the Russian Federation / World Bank Group. Series WPS "Policy Research Working Paper". No. 8994.
• Freije S., M. Matytsin and D. Popova (2023) The distributional impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and policy response in Russia. Voprosy Ekonomiki.

Model documentation:

• https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/740361567704842662/pdf/RUSMOD-A-Tool-for-Distributional-Analysis-in-the-Russian-Federation.pdf