Package: PanelMatch
Type: Package
Title: Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series
        Cross-Sectional Data
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2020-02-10
Authors@R: c(
  person("In Song", "Kim", email = "insong@mit.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
  person("Adam", "Rauh", email = "adamrauh@mit.edu", role = c("aut")),
  person("Erik", "Wang", email = "haixiaow@Princeton.edu", role = c("aut")),
  person("Kosuke", "Imai", email = "imai@harvard.edu", role = c("aut"))
  )
Description: Implements a set of methodological tools
	     that enable researchers to apply matching methods to
	     time-series cross-sectional data. Imai, Kim, and Wang
	     (2018) <http://web.mit.edu/insong/www/pdf/tscs.pdf> 
	     proposes a nonparametric generalization of the
	     difference-in-differences estimator, which does not rely
	     on the linearity assumption as often done in
	     practice. Researchers first select a method of matching
	     each treated observation for a given unit in a
	     particular time period with control observations from
	     other units in the same time period that have a similar
	     treatment and covariate history. These methods include
	     standard matching methods based on propensity score and
	     Mahalanobis distance, as well as weighting methods. Once 
	     matching is done, both short-term and long-term average 
	     treatment effects for the treated can be estimated with 
	     standard errors. The package also offers a visualization 
	     technique that allows researchers to assess the quality 
	     of matches by examining the resulting covariate balance.
License: GPL (>= 3)
Imports: Rcpp (>= 0.12.5), data.table, ggplot2, CBPS, stats, graphics,
        grDevices, MASS, Matrix, methods
Depends: R (>= 2.14.0)
SystemRequirements: C++11
LinkingTo: RcppArmadillo, Rcpp, RcppEigen
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
BugReports: https://github.com/insongkim/PanelMatch/issues
RoxygenNote: 7.0.2
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 2.1.0)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2020-02-20 18:49:55 UTC; insong
Author: In Song Kim [aut, cre],
  Adam Rauh [aut],
  Erik Wang [aut],
  Kosuke Imai [aut]
Maintainer: In Song Kim <insong@mit.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2020-02-28 11:20:13 UTC
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