This Github repository contains replication files for Single Proxy Control (Park, Richardson, Tchetgen Tchetgen, 2023).
The dataset contains birth rate information from 603 municipalities in two states of Brazil, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Sul. Municipality-level birth rates were measured in 2013, 2014 and 2016, before and after the 2015 Zika virus outbreak. More details on the source of the dataset are given below:
- Pre- and Post-treatment Outcomes, Treatment, and log population: zika_Table2.tab in https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ENG0IY. See Taddeo, Amorim, Aquino (2022) for details.
- log population density and proportion of female: https://www.ibge.gov.br/en/statistics/social/income-expenditure-and-consumption/18391-2010-population-census.html?=&t=resultados
- The dataset is also used in Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology (Tchetgen Tchetgen, Park, Richardson, 2023)
- 0.SPC_Ft.R and 0.Functions_MM.R contain functions used in the rest R-files.
- 1.SPC_PARA_CV_Parallel.R replicates estimates obtained from parametric estimators in the Appendix (recommended to use a cluster computing system).
- 2.SPC_PARA_Summary.R summarizes estimates obtained from 1.SPC_PARA_CV_Parallel.R.
- 3.SPC_PARA_Sensitivity_Parallel.R replicates the sensitivity analysis in the Appendix (recommended to use a cluster computing system).
- 4.SPC_PARA_Sensitivity_Summary.R summarizes estimates obtained from 3.SPC_PARA_Sensitivity_Parallel.R.
- 5.SPC_NP_Parallel.R replicates estimates obtained from a semiparametric estimator in the main paper (recommended to use a cluster computing system).
- 6.SPC_Summary.R summarizes parametric and semiparametric estimates and replicates the paper in the main paper.
Taddeo, Amorim, Aquino (2022) Causal Measures Using Generalized Difference-in-difference Approach with Nonlinear Models, Statistics and Its Interface, 15(4):399-413 [link]
Tchetgen Tchetgen, Park, Richardson (2023) Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology, arXiv:2302.00840 [link]
Park, Richardson, Tchetgen Tchetgen (2023) Single Proxy Control, arXiv:2302.06054 [link]