Evidence that holds up when it is argued with.

How research institutes use PROSERIS

Four kinds of research the platform is built for. All four run through the same guided setup and return the same set of deliverables.

• The economic effect of a proposed policy

  Model what a bill, a regulation, or a programme does to the regional economy before it is enacted — direct, indirect, and induced employment, output, and personal income, broken out by industry and by year. Scenarios are entered as changes to nine policy variables, so what the model is being asked is explicit and can be restated by anyone reviewing it.

  Why PROSERIS helps

  The value of an ex ante estimate is that it arrives before the vote. A guided setup and a repeatable run mean the constraint on publishing is your analysis, not the weeks it would take to build the model underneath it.

• The same policy across regions and jurisdictions

  Run one scenario against several regions — states, counties, or MSAs — and compare what it does in each. Every region is modeled against its own baseline rather than apportioned from a national figure, so a policy that works in one economy and not in another shows up as that, rather than as a scaled fraction.

  Why PROSERIS helps

  Comparative claims are where policy research is most often challenged, because the obvious shortcut is to take one estimate and scale it. Running each region properly is what makes the comparison defensible.

• When an effect lands, and on which industries

  Results come back year by year rather than as a single total, and disaggregated by sector, including employment in the top five industries affected and the changes in population, labor force, and economic migration that follow. A policy whose benefit arrives in year eight reads differently from one whose benefit arrives in year two.

  Why PROSERIS helps

  A headline jobs number invites the objection that it hides the timing and the distribution. Publishing both, from the same run, answers the objection in advance.

• Analysis a publication can be built on

  Every run exports an Excel workbook with the full data tables, a PowerPoint of the charts, a seven-page Word document, and a one-page summary for a briefing. The writing is still yours; the figures, exhibits, and underlying tables all come from the same run and stay consistent with each other.

  Why PROSERIS helps

  Reconciling a chart in the deck against a table in the appendix is a familiar way to lose an afternoon before publication, and a familiar way to lose an argument after it. Both come out of the same analysis here.

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