Supplementary data and research materials for "Face Masks Considerably Reduce Covid-19 Cases in Germany -- A synthetic control method approach"

This project folder contains supplementary data files and software codes (Stata and Matlab) to replicate the estimation and simulation results documented in: "Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany", written by Mitze, T., Kosfeld, R., Rode, J. and Wälde, K. (2020). The paper has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117 (51), 32293-32301 with DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073. An older working paper version of this research can be download as CESifo Working Paper No. 8479 from: https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp8479.pdf.