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Release notes

BACE v2.1.1 Latest

2024-03-27: BACE application using Flask with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB

  • Improved Survey route
  • Restructured code with independent BACE elements
  • Up-to-date dependencies
  • New User Manual
  • Tools to use with BACE app:
  • API queries
  • Simulation
  • Locust load testing
  • Download data
  • Reestimate data

BACE v2.0.0

2023-11-15: BACE application using Flask with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB

  • Mango to perform Bayesian optimization
  • Survey route to implement a BACE application on an independent self-hosted website
  • Qualtrics integration template and notes

BACE v1.0.0

2022-11-03: BACE application using FastAPI with Heroku and PostgreSQL

  • Manual for this release
  • Notes:
  • Use Python 3.9 or 3.10
  • Add psycopg[binary] to the list of requirements in requirements.txt

Development roadmap

  • SurveyCTO integration
  • Independent Flask app with MongoDb

List of applications

  • The Valuation of Urban Nature: An Adaptive Bayesian Approach to Measuring Willingness-to-Pay for Greenery in Urban Environments (Swanson, May 2022, Undergraduate thesis, Brown University)
  • Wage Differentials and the Price of Workplace Flexibility (Drake, Thakral, and Tô, 2023)
  • A Welfare Analysis of Public Housing Allocation Mechanisms (Naik and Thakral, 2024)
  • The Public Housing Allocation Problem (Murra-Anton and Thakral, 2024)

Acknowledgements

We thank the following individuals for comments and support that helped improve the package:

  • Alfred Løvgren, University of Oslo (UiO)
  • Ari Anisfeld, University of Chicago
  • Fatma Mosaad, J-PAL MENA