https://github.com/sdfordham/pysyncon

A python module for the synthetic control method
https://github.com/sdfordham/pysyncon

augsynth causal-inference synth synthetic-control-method

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A python module for the synthetic control method

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sdfordham/pysyncon
• Owner: sdfordham
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-12-20T23:34:55.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-22T20:31:17.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-22T20:32:42.968Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: augsynth, causal-inference, synth, synthetic-control-method
• Language: Python
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• Size: 2.56 MB
• Stars: 29
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# pysyncon ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.8+-blue.svg) [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/sdfordham/pysyncon/graph/badge.svg?token=hmi7xHQ4OT)](https://codecov.io/gh/sdfordham/pysyncon)

A python module for the synthetic control method that provides implementations of:

- Synthetic Control Method (Abadie & Gardeazabal 2003)

- Robust Synthetic Control Method (Amjad, Shah & Shen 2018)

- Augmented Synthetic Control Method (Ben-Michael, Feller & Rothstein 2021)

- Penalized Synthetic Control Method (Abadie & L'Hour 2021)

The package also provides methods for performing placebo tests and generating confidence intervals.

The implementation of the synthetic control method aims to be reconcilable with the R package [Synth](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Synth) and similarly the implementation of the Augmented synthetic control method and the R package [augsynth](https://github.com/ebenmichael/augsynth).

## Installation

Install it from PyPI using pip:

````bash

python -m pip install pysyncon

````

## Usage

Documentation is available on [github-pages](https://sdfordham.github.io/pysyncon/). In the examples folder are notebooks reproducing the weights from:

- The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country, Alberto Abadie and Javier Gardeazabal; The American Economic Review Vol. 93, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 113-132. ([notebook here](examples/basque.ipynb))

- The worked example 'Prison construction and Black male incarceration' from the last chapter of 'Causal Inference: The Mixtape' by Scott Cunningham. ([notebook here](examples/texas.ipynb))

- Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method, Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond and Jens Hainmueller; American Journal of Political Science Vol. 59, No. 2 (April 2015), pp. 495-510. ([notebook here](examples/germany.ipynb))