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The didnp package contains tools for computing average treatment effect parameters in a Difference-in-Differences setup without specifying a model.

The framework

The didnp package implements the framework developed in

Daniel J. Henderson and Stefan Sperlich (2023), “A Complete Framework for Model-Free Difference-in-Differences Estimation”, Foundations and Trends® in Econometrics: Vol. 12: No. 3, pp 232-323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/0800000046

Installation

The package didnp can be install from CRAN by typing:

install.packages("didnp", dependencies = TRUE)

or get the latest version from github by typing:

if ( !require("devtools") ) install.packages("devtools"); library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("OlegBadunenko/didnp")

Illustration and Uses

This article guides through the code and illustrates the functionality of the package using

The subset of the data from Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) available in the package.