The DiSCos package contains tools for computing counterfactual quantile functions in a Distributional Synthetic Controls (DiSco) setting, following the method proposed in Gunsilius (2023).
Getting Started
Have a look at the vignette replicating the empirical application in the paper to get started.
Installation
To install the latest stable version, run
install.packages("DiSCos")You can install latest development version from GitHub with:
devtools::install_github("Davidvandijcke/DiSCos")If you find any bugs or have any questions, please email dvdijcke@umich.edu.
If you are using this package in your research, please cite:
Gunsilius, Florian F. 2023. “Distributional Synthetic Controls.” Econometrica 91 (3): 1105–17.
Van Dijcke, David, Florian Gunsilius, and Austin Wright. “Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04352 (2024).