Longitudinal matching for panel data — morie_matching_longitudinal • rmorie

Matches treated and control units on the basis of their pre-treatment covariate values.

Usage

morie_matching_longitudinal(
  data,
  treatment,
  covariates,
  unit,
  time,
  treatment_time,
  n_pre_periods = 1L,
  method = "nearest_neighbor"
)

Arguments

data: Panel data frame.
treatment: Binary treatment indicator column.
covariates: Character vector of covariates.
unit: Column name identifying units.
time: Column name identifying time.
treatment_time: Column giving the (per-unit) start of treatment; non-finite values indicate never-treated.
n_pre_periods: Number of pre-treatment periods to summarise.
method: One of "nearest_neighbor" or "mahalanobis".

Value

A list of class morie_match_result.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
morie_matching_longitudinal(panel, "d", c("x1"), unit = "id",
                            time = "t", treatment_time = "t0")
} # }