Where are the reviews of government action on COVID-19?
#Canada #Health #Economy #COVID19 #Federalism #COVID19Response #GovernmentAccountability #PolicyReview #LessonsLearned #PublicHealth #Transparency #Coordination #PandemicPreparedness #PolicyEvaluation #CrisisManagement
https://the-14.com/where-are-the-reviews-of-government-action-on-covid-19/

New :rstats: package! For a project, I had to implement penalized synthetic control estimation, and I thought it would be nice to implement it "properly" so others could use it too.

https://github.com/vankesteren/pensynth

It also has a basic form of cross-validation to automatically determine the penalty parameter.

Feel free to try out / comment / collaborate! :air_quotes_left:

#rstats #statistics #economics #SyntheticControl #PolicyEvaluation #CausalInference

🔥Three recent surveys on #causal #machinelearning for treatment or #PolicyEvaluation:
@MC_Knaus@twitter.com (2021): https://academic.oup.com/ectj/article-abstract/25/3/602/6596870;
Lieli et al (2022): https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-15149-1_3;
Shah et al (2021): https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788976473/9781788976473.00025.xml
#EconTwitter #CausalTwitter #EpiTwitter #statstwitter