pysyncon 0.1.0

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pysyncon

A python module for the synthetic control method that provides the same functionality as the R package Synth and eventually augsynth and some other methods related.

Usage

In the examples folder are notebooks reproducing the weights from:

• The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country, Alberto Abadie and Javier Gardeazabal; The American Economic Review Vol. 93, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 113-132.
• The worked example 'Prison construction and Black male incarceration' from the last chapter of 'Causal Inference: The Mixtape' by Scott Cunningham.
• Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method, Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond and Jens Hainmueller; American Journal of Political Science Vol. 59, No. 2 (April 2015), pp. 495-510.