Synth: An R package for synthetic control methods in comparative case studies

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Abadie, Alberto ^a   Diamond, Alexis ^a   Hainmueller, Jens ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Comparative case studies; Differences in differences estimation; Program evaluation; Synthetic control methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961240793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v042.i13     Document Type: Article

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