mclapply.hack

This function mimics forking (done with mclapply in Mac or Linux) for the
Windows environment. Designed to be used just like mclapply. Credit goes to
Nathan VanHoudnos.

internal

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

mclapply.hack function

<dl><dt>verbose</dt>
<dd>Should users be warned this is hack-y? Defaults to FALSE.</dd>
<dt>mc.cores</dt>
<dd>Number of cores to use. Defaults to 1.</dd></dl>

Arguments

mclapply.hack — mclapply.hack

<dl>

<dt>verbose</dt>
<dd>Should users be warned this is hack-y? Defaults to FALSE.</dd>


<dt>mc.cores</dt>
<dd>Number of cores to use. Defaults to 1.</dd>

</dl>

mclapply.hack: mclapply.hack

Description

Usage

Arguments

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