Activate calibrated credit claiming behavior#3081
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This pull request represents step 2 of the two-step development plan described in issue #3080.
Calibrating Claiming Behavior
The value of the
eitc_claim_prob_scaleparameter is set to 1.04 and the value of theactc_claim_prob_scaleparameter is set to 1.10 for all years in thepolicy_current_law.jsonfile. These scaling factor values were calibrated so that Tax-Calculator, when using TMD input data, generates 2022 aggregate EITC and ACTC amounts roughly equal to the 2022 historical data reported by IRS/SOI.Aggregate 2022 Credit Amounts ($B)
Type
actual amount
full claiming
calibrated claiming
The 2022 T-C EITC estimates in the above table imply a participation (or claiming) rate of about 81.6%.
The 2029 T-C EITC estimates are 95.1 and 77.2, which imply a participation rate of about 81.2%.
Revising Tax-Calculator Tests
Because so many of the expected pytest results were derived using older versions of Tax-Calculator that assumed full credit claiming, most of the tests have been revised to switch back to the full-claiming assumption so that the expected test results remain unchanged. The exceptions to this approach are the behavioral responses tests generated by the
make brtestcommand and the input data tests generated by themake idtestcommand. In those two cases, the new calibrated credit claiming assumptions are used, which means the expected results for those two sets of tests are now somewhat different.