The DiSCos package contains tools for computing counterfactual quantile functions in a Distributional Synthetic Controls (DiSco) setting, following the method proposed in Gunsilius (2023).
Have a look at the vignette replicating the empirical application in the paper to get started.
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).