DiSCoT

S3 object holding aggregated treatment effects

The method of synthetic controls is a widely-adopted tool for evaluating causal effects of policy changes in settings with observational data. In many settings where it is applicable, researchers want to identify causal effects of policy changes on a treated unit at an aggregate level while having access to data at a finer granularity. This package implements a simple extension of the synthetic controls estimator, developed in Gunsilius (2023) <doi:10.3982/ECTA18260>, that takes advantage of this additional structure and provides nonparametric estimates of the heterogeneity within the aggregate unit. The idea is to replicate the quantile function associated with the treated unit by a weighted average of quantile functions of the control units. The package contains tools for aggregating and plotting the resulting distributional estimates, as well as for carrying out inference on them.

David Van Dijcke

DiSCos

Distributional Synthetic Controls Estimation

Florian Gunsilius

Siyun He

DiSCoT function

<dl><dt>agg</dt>
<dd>aggregation method</dd>
<dt>treats</dt>
<dd>list of treatment effects</dd>
<dt>ses</dt>
<dd>list of standard errors</dd>
<dt>grid</dt>
<dd>grid</dd>
<dt>ci_lower</dt>
<dd>list of lower confidence intervals</dd>
<dt>ci_upper</dt>
<dd>list of upper confidence intervals</dd>
<dt>t0</dt>
<dd>start time</dd>
<dt>call</dt>
<dd>call</dd>
<dt>cl</dt>
<dd>confidence level</dd>
<dt>N</dt>
<dd>number of observations</dd>
<dt>J</dt>
<dd>number of treated units</dd>
<dt>agg_df</dt>
<dd>dataframe of aggregated treatment effects and their confidence intervals</dd>
<dt>perm</dt>
<dd>list of per mutation results</dd>
<dt>plot</dt>
<dd>a ggplot object containing the plot for the aggregated treatment effects using the <code>agg</code> parameter</dd></dl>

Arguments

Store aggregated treatment effects — DiSCoT

<dl>

<dt>agg</dt>
<dd>aggregation method</dd>


<dt>treats</dt>
<dd>list of treatment effects</dd>


<dt>ses</dt>
<dd>list of standard errors</dd>


<dt>grid</dt>
<dd>grid</dd>


<dt>ci_lower</dt>
<dd>list of lower confidence intervals</dd>


<dt>ci_upper</dt>
<dd>list of upper confidence intervals</dd>


<dt>t0</dt>
<dd>start time</dd>


<dt>call</dt>
<dd>call</dd>


<dt>cl</dt>
<dd>confidence level</dd>


<dt>N</dt>
<dd>number of observations</dd>


<dt>J</dt>
<dd>number of treated units</dd>


<dt>agg_df</dt>
<dd>dataframe of aggregated treatment effects and their confidence intervals</dd>


<dt>perm</dt>
<dd>list of per mutation results</dd>


<dt>plot</dt>
<dd>a ggplot object containing the plot for the aggregated treatment effects using the <code>agg</code> parameter</dd>

</dl>

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DiSCoT: Store aggregated treatment effects

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