This repository contains code and data for "On the Assumptions of Synthetic Control Methods".
- Prop 99
- In 1989, California implemented a tobacco program that increased the tobacco tax by 25 cents. We are interested in studying what the average smoking rate would be had the tobacco program never been implemented.
- The data includes the average cigarette sales (measured in packs) of different states in American between 1970โ2000. Here is the link to data
- To reproduce figure 1 of the paper, run src/prop99.ipynb
- For a full data description, see Abadie+ 2010
- Simulations
- We studied various implications of the paper using simulated data.
- Here is the data generating process, src/dgp.py
- To reproduce figure 2, run src/linear_v_nonlinear.ipynb
- To reproduce figure 3, run src/increase_s.ipynb
- to reproduce table 2, run src/auxiliary_covariate.ipynb