Replication Materials for "Citizens Standard: An Empirical Replication and Counterfactual Benchmark, 1960–2025"
Description
Replication code and embedded historical dataset for the SSRN working paper "Citizens Standard: An Empirical Replication and Counterfactual Benchmark, 1960–2025" by Neo-Solon. The replication script reproduces the headline empirical results in the paper, including the cohort projections for representative US citizens born in 1960, 1965, 1970, ..., 2010, under both actual historical conditions and a counterfactual Citizens Standard monetary regime active over the same period. Contents: - replication.py — Pure Python (standard library only) script reproducing all empirical results. - README.md — Instructions for running the replication and a manifest of outputs. - requirements.txt — Dependency manifest (intentionally empty; the script is stdlib-only). Data sources are publicly available macroeconomic series (FRED, BEA, BLS, SSA, Vanguard's How America Saves, Robert Shiller's long-run equity series). Source-by-source documentation is included as comments within the script. The latest version of these materials is maintained at github.com/Neo-Solon/Citizens-Standard. This Mendeley Data deposit is the frozen, citable snapshot tied to the SSRN working paper. To run: `python replication.py` (Python 3.8 or newer). Output prints to standard output. No installation step required.