Package: badcontrols 1.0.0

Hugo SantAnna

badcontrols: Difference-in-Differences with Bad Controls

Implements methods for difference-in-differences with bad controls, i.e., time-varying covariates that are affected by the treatment. Provides imputation, doubly robust, and machine learning estimators that are based on Caetano, Callaway, Payne, and Sant'Anna (2026) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2608.03881>.

Authors:Carolina Caetano [aut], Brantly Callaway [aut], Stroud Payne [aut], Hugo Sant'Anna [aut, cre]

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DESCRIPTION |NEWS
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# Install 'badcontrols' in R:
install.packages('badcontrols', repos = c('https://hugosantanna.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/hugosantanna/badcontrols/issues

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Exports:didbcdr_ml_attgtsimulate_bad_controls

Dependencies:BHbigmemorybigmemory.sriBMiscclicpp11data.tabledplyrDRDIDfarverfastglmFormulagenericsggplot2gluegtableisobandlabelinglatticelifecyclemagrittrMatrixpbapplypillarpkgconfigptetoolsR6RColorBrewerRcppRcppArmadilloRcppEigenrlangS7scalessplines2tibbletidyselecttrustutf8uuidvctrsviridisLitewithr

Difference-in-Differences with Bad Controls: A Coding Example
NLSY data | Question 1: Is occupation score a bad control? | Estimating the effect of displacement on earnings | Other estimators
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Last update: 2026-08-30
Started: 2026-08-07

Difference-in-Differences with Bad Controls: A Conceptual Overview
Motivation | Alternative approaches | New Approach 1: Condition on the pre-treatment bad control | New Approach 2: Covariate unconfoundedness for the bad control | Conceptual side-discussion: | Conclusion | References
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Last update: 2026-08-24
Started: 2026-08-07