Synth - Synthetic Control Group Method for Comparative Case Studies

Implements the synthetic control group method for comparative case studies as described in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) and Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2010, 2011, 2014). The synthetic control method allows for effect estimation in settings where a single unit (a state, country, firm, etc.) is exposed to an event or intervention. It provides a data-driven procedure to construct synthetic control units based on a weighted combination of comparison units that approximates the characteristics of the unit that is exposed to the intervention. A combination of comparison units often provides a better comparison for the unit exposed to the intervention than any comparison unit alone.

Last updated 2 years ago

5.30 score 12 stars 1 dependents 444 scripts 1.4k downloads

ebal - Entropy Reweighting to Create Balanced Samples

Package implements entropy balancing, a data preprocessing procedure described in Hainmueller (2008, <doi:10.1093/pan/mpr025>) that allows users to reweight a dataset such that the covariate distributions in the reweighted data satisfy a set of user specified moment conditions. This can be useful to create balanced samples in observational studies with a binary treatment where the control group data can be reweighted to match the covariate moments in the treatment group. Entropy balancing can also be used to reweight a survey sample to known characteristics from a target population.

Last updated 3 years ago

2.95 score 2 stars 1 dependents 149 scripts 893 downloads

KRLS - Kernel-Based Regularized Least Squares

Package implements Kernel-based Regularized Least Squares (KRLS), a machine learning method to fit multidimensional functions y=f(x) for regression and classification problems without relying on linearity or additivity assumptions. KRLS finds the best fitting function by minimizing the squared loss of a Tikhonov regularization problem, using Gaussian kernels as radial basis functions. For further details see Hainmueller and Hazlett (2014).

Last updated 8 years ago

2.83 score 3 stars 45 scripts 280 downloads