United Nations OG-Core Overlapping Generations Model Training

United Nations OG-Core Overlapping Generations Model Training#

This site contains open access tutorial materials and exercises for learning, using, and maintaining open source macroeconomic model country calibrations of the open source OG-Core large scale overlapping generations macroeconomic modeling platform for fiscal analysis. This tutorial was created by a partnership between the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and Open Research Group, Inc. All the source materials for these training materials are available in the GitHub repository EAPD-DRB/UN-OG-Training. The core maintainers of this project are the following:

  • Marcelo LaFleur, Senior Economist, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations (GitHub handle: @SeaCelo)

  • Jason DeBacker, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of South Carolina; Vice President and Co-founder, Open Research Group, Inc. (GitHub handle: @jdebacker)

  • Richard W. Evans, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Open Policy, Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University; President and Co-founder, Open Research Group, Inc. (GitHub handle: @rickecon)

We welcome collaboration on the maintenance and improvement of this tutorial. If you have changes you would like to see or errors that you find, please open an issue in the GitHub repository or submit a pull request.

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Package

Python 3.10 Python 3.11

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Tutorial site functionality#

This site was created using the Executable Books Jupyter Book platform. All of the content for this tutorial material is publicly accessible, available, and version controlled in the GitHub repository (EAPD-DRB/UN-OG-Training) associated with this book. Some of the functionality of this tutorial site includes the following:

  • Navigate through the chapters and sections of the tutorial materials using the chapter table of contents on the left side of the site, and navigate through subsections of each chapter using the subsection table of contents on the right side of each page.

  • Click on the GitHub icon _images/icon_GitHub.png in the upper-right of each page to go to the GitHub repository or open and issue in the repository.

  • Download each page as a markdown file .md or a PDF file .pdf by clicking on the download icon _images/icon_download.png in the upper-right of each page.

  • Toggle between a desktop window or full-screen mode by clicking on the full screen icon _images/icon_fullscreen.png in the upper-right of each page.

  • Change the background from light to dark to automatic using the background brightness icon _images/icon_background.png in the upper-right of each page.

  • Search for terms in the training materials using by clicking on the search icon _images/icon_search.png in the upper-fight of each page and entering your search terms.

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