Synth: An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods in Comparative Case Studies

By Alberto Abadie, A. Diamond, Jens Hainmueller. 2011

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The R package Synth implements synthetic control methods for comparative case studies designed to estimate the causal effects of policy interventions and other events of interest (Abadie and Gardeazabal 2003; Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller 2010). These techniques are particularly well-suited to investigate events occurring at an aggregate level (i.e., countries, cities, regions, etc.) and affecting a relatively small number of units. Benefits and features of the Synth package are illustrated using data from Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), which examined the economic impact of the terrorist conflict in the Basque Country.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• Synthetic Control Method: Inference, Sensitivity Analysis and Confidence Sets (2018, methodology): “As a consequence of all our empirical exercises, we conclude that terrorists acts in the Basque Country had no statistically significant economic consequence as discussed by Abadie et al. (2011).”
• Does a Carbon Tax Reduce CO2 Emissions? Evidence from British Columbia (2019, methodology): “Synthetic control is implemented here using the Synth package in R (Abadie et al. 2011).”