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  • 1.  Synthetic Control Methods for Causal Inference

    Posted 04-26-2018 14:17

    Dear ASA Members:

     

    Have you used synthetic control methods for causal inference?

     

    I would appreciate your thoughts on such methods, applications using observational data, and software choices.

     

    http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Synth/index.html

     

    Kelly

     

     



  • 2.  RE: Synthetic Control Methods for Causal Inference

    Posted 04-27-2018 15:59
    It can also be done in Stata using the use-created synth command.
    Dadvid Greenberg, NYU Sociology