Best synthetic control user-written command?

[Matthew Lala]

I was wondering if people have views on the best user-written command for synthetic control analysis? There are now quite a few different options.

[Jared Greathouse]

Um I'm biased because I wrote SCUL, which is on SSC (even though it needs revisions).

But in all honesty, SCUL is nice, but there's plenty that could be done with it that Stata just can't do. That's why I switch to Python for all my SCM needs, since it can do all manner of optimization and matrix math that Stata just can't do yet. For what it's worth, I'm developing a Python package called MLSYNTH which does A LOT of these newer SCM estimators, that go far beyond what I could do in Stata. Someday I'll write a Stata wrapper for it.

If you want, in the time being, I can show a little of what it can currently do.

Barring that, allsynth is a great choice, as is synthdid

[Matthew Lala]

Thank you! I will give it a go and write back here if needed