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title: 'DiSCos: Distributional Synthetic Controls Estimation'
version: 0.1.1
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.DiSCos
abstract: 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) <https://doi.org/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.
authors:
- family-names: Van Dijcke
  given-names: David
  email: dvdijcke@umich.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5825-3447
- family-names: Gunsilius
  given-names: Florian
  email: ffg@umich.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1698-6324
- family-names: He
  given-names: Siyun
  email: siyunhe@umich.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4201-0912
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DiSCos
repository-code: https://github.com/Davidvandijcke/DiSCos
url: http://www.davidvandijcke.com/DiSCos/
date-released: '2024-07-23'
contact:
- family-names: Van Dijcke
  given-names: David
  email: dvdijcke@umich.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5825-3447