The lab develops integrated modelling tools to support rigorous research, policy engagement, advanced training, and reproducible quantitative analysis.
The lab's models are designed to bring together behavioural detail, institutional realism, and macroeconomic discipline. They are used to evaluate how fiscal reforms affect households, work incentives, savings, inequality, and long-run welfare.
Rather than focusing on a single question in isolation, the model suite allows policy analysis across multiple domains including taxation, retirement systems, social insurance, and health-related risk.
Tools are built for researchers who need transparent and extensible structural frameworks.
Applied questions can be framed in terms of distributional impact, welfare trade-offs, and fiscal sustainability.
The model suite is also used as part of the lab's methods and capacity-building program.
Each model speaks to a different dimension of macro public finance while sharing a common focus on heterogeneity and policy evaluation.
A structural lifecycle microsimulation model of Australian households for analysing income tax reform, means-tested transfers, and social insurance.
A model used to study health capital, insurance design, spending, and wealth accumulation over the lifecycle within general equilibrium.
A framework for studying earnings risk, distributional change, and non-Gaussian shocks using Australian administrative tax records.
A quantitative framework for pension reform, superannuation design, retirement savings, and the fiscal effects of ageing economies.
The value of the model suite lies not only in the code itself, but in the range of empirical and policy tasks it can support.
Frameworks are solved with value function methods, policy iteration, and computational workflows suited to large-scale quantitative analysis.
Models are disciplined using lifecycle patterns, tax records, household surveys, and other data sources relevant to the policy environment.
The frameworks support reform evaluation across taxation, transfers, pensions, and health-related policy with distributional and welfare metrics.
The models support different users, from academic collaborators to training participants and policy audiences seeking quantitative counterfactuals.
Researchers can use the model environment to extend existing work, test alternative assumptions, or frame new questions in fiscal policy.
Government and policy users can engage with the models as part of discussions on tax reform, transfers, pensions, and long-run fiscal trade-offs.
The same frameworks also underpin workshops and training on lifecycle models, calibration, and quantitative policy evaluation.
The page now presents the modelling agenda more clearly. Access and collaboration requests can be routed directly to the lab while documentation links are expanded.