# fect_stata

**Repository Path**: caolinjun/fect_stata

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: fect_stata
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- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
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- **Created**: 2021-04-22
- **Last Updated**: 2025-04-14

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## README

# fect for STATA

## A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data

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**Authors:** Licheng Liu (MIT); Ye Wang (NYU); Yiqing Xu (Stanford); Ziyi Liu (PKU)

**Maintainer:** Yiqing Xu [<yiqingxu@stanford.edu>]  

Installation
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As a pre-requisite, the `reghdfe` package needs to be installed. 

```Stata
. ssc install reghdfe, replace
```

To install the `fect` package with Stata v13 or greater

```Stata
. cap ado uninstall fect //in-case already installed
. net install fect, from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xuyiqing/fect_stata/master/) replace
```

If the above link is unaccessible for your device, use the "Download Zip" button above, unzip it to a local directory, and then replace the above `net install` with

```Stata
. net install fect, from(full_local_path_to_files) replace
```

How to use
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 [Examples](http://yiqingxu.org/software/fect/stata/fect_md.html)
 
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**Reference:** "A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data" Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3555463

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