Synth: An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods in Comparative Case Studies

Synth: An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods in Comparative Case Studies

The R package Synth implements synthetic control methods for comparative case studies designed to estimate the causal effects of policy interventions and other events of interest (Abadie and Gardeazabal 2003; Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller 2010). These techniques are particularly well-suited to in...

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Main Authors: Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond, Jens Hainmueller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2011-08-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
synthetic control methods
differences in differences estimation
program evaluation
comparative case studies
causal inference
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v42/i13/paper

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