Synthetic Control Method - - - Python library?

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I am assisting in research that employs Abadie’s “Synthetic Control Method” and haven’t been able to find an accessible Python library. A google search turns up a couple candidates:



but neither is available for installation through conda or pip. Is anyone aware of a library that provide SCM support through a curated repository?

Thanks much,
Chuck

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Hi @CBecker, I’m afraid I don’t know of any.

One possibility is to descend into R for this part of the analysis. There are various tools for interoperability between the two languages. I’m not sure if this is a good article but it might be a starting point:

This might also be worth looking into: https://vatlab.github.io/sos-docs/

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John,

Thank you!

wr/Chuck

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It may be a late, but if it helps anyone else, the Sparse Synthetic Controls package can be installed with:

pip install git+https://github.com/microsoft/SparseSC.git

and docs can be found here

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Jason,
Thank you!
r/Chuck

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Julia has a Synthetic Control library as well: https://github.com/nilshg/SynthControl.jl