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The R Journal

Date of this Version

12-2015

Document Type

Article

Citation

The R Journal (December 2015) 7(2); Editor: Bettina Grün

Comments

Copyright 2015, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported

Abstract

The pampe package for R implements the panel data approach method for program evaluation designed to estimate the causal effects of political interventions or treatments. This procedure exploits the dependence among cross-sectional units to construct a counterfactual of the treated unit(s), and it is an appropriate method for research events that occur at an aggregate level like countries or regions and that affect only one or a small number of units. The implementation of the pampe package is illustrated using data from Hong Kong and 24 other units, by examining the economic impact of the political and economic integration of Hong Kong with mainland China in 1997 and 2004 respectively.

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