Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 13:55:25 +0000
From: Margaret McKeehan <mkmckeehan@gmail.com>
To: feenberg@nber.org
Cc: Nick Frazier <nfrazier@rice.edu>
Subject: PSID to TAXSIM Scripts (Stata)

Daniel,
I am writing you on behalf of myself and my colleague Nick Frazier. As an
offshoot of prior research, we have put together a set of Stata scripts which
prepare PSID family data files for processing through the TAXSIM program,
covering 1968 to 2011. We would like to share these materials with other
researchers, and have attached two different versions of the files which might
be helpful:
 1. A zip file of Stata scripts (TAXSIM_Scripts.zip) which includes a .do file
    for each year of PSID data between 1968 and 2011. These scripts rename and
    clean the PSID data and then call Taxsim9 in Stata. They are designed to
    work with the entire PSID family data file for each year.
 2. An excel file (Taxsim_Code_Gen.xlsm) which generates the attached script
    files. This excel file is setup so that users should be able to easily
    adjust inputs. For example, it allows users to select whether they want to
    drop any unused variables from data file or exclude any PSID variables from
    the calculations.
TAXSIM has been indispensable for our research, and we hope that these materials
will help other TAXSIM users working with PSID data. If there is anything else
we can provide that would be helpful for this please let us know.

Thank you,


Margaret McKeehan