gsynth-package {gsynth}

Generalized Synthetic Control Method

Description

Implements the generalized synthetic control method based on interactive fixed effect models.

Details

Implements the generalized synthetic control method. It imputes counterfactuals for each treated unit using control group information based on a linear interactive fixed effects model that incorporates unit-specific intercepts interacted with time-varying coefficients.

See gsynth for details.

Author(s)

Yiqing Xu <[e-mail]>, Stanford University

Licheng Liu <[e-mail]>, M.I.T.

References

Yiqing Xu. 2017. "Generalized Synthetic Control Method: Causal Inference with Interactive Fixed Effects Models." Political Analysis, Vol. 25, Iss. 1, January 2017, pp. 57-76.

For more details, see https://yiqingxu.org/packages/gsynth/gsynth_examples.html.