Synthetic Controls in Action

Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies

Rubin, D. B. (1974) · 1974

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Synthetic interventions

Agarwal, A., Shah, D., and Shen, D. (2021) · 2006

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The dangers of extreme counterfactuals

King, G. and Zeng, L. (2006) · 2006

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Synthetic control methods for comparative case studies: Estimating the effect of California’s tobacco control program

Abadie, A., Diamond, A., and Hainmueller, J. (2010) · 2010

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A panel data approach for program evaluation: Measuring the benefits of political and economic integration of Hong Kong with mainland China

Hsiao, C., Steve Ching, H., and Ki Wan, S. (2012) · 2012

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The value of connections in turbulent times: Evidence from the United States

Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., Kermani, A., Kwak, J., and Mitton, T. (2016) · 2016

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Balancing, regression, difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods: A synthesis

Doudchenko, N. and Imbens, G. W. (2016) · 2016

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Robust synthetic control

Amjad, M., Shah, D., and Shen, D. (2018) · 2018

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Decriminalizing indoor prostitution: Implications for sexual violence and public health

Cunningham, S. and Shah, M. (2018) · 2018

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Synthetic difference in differences

Arkhangelsky, D., Athey, S., Hirshberg, D. A., Imbens, G. W., and Wager, S. (2019) · 2019

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Right-to-carry laws and violent crime: A comprehensive assessment using panel data and a state-level synthetic control analysis

Donohue, J. J., Aneja, A., and Weber, K. D. (2019) · 2019

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Using synthetic controls: Feasibility, data requirements, and methodological aspects

A penalized synthetic control estimator for disaggregated data

Abadie, A. and L’Hour, J. (2021) · 2021

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Matrix completion methods for causal panel data models

Athey, S., Bayati, M., Doudchenko, N., Imbens, G., and Khosravi, K. (2021) · 2021

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The augmented synthetic control method

Ben-Michael, E., Feller, A., and Rothstein, J. (2021) · 2021

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An exact and robust conformal inference method for counterfactual and synthetic controls

Chernozhukov, V., Wüthrich, K., and Zhu, Y. (2021) · 2021

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On the properties of the synthetic control estimator with many periods and many controls

Ferman, B. (2021) · 2021

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Synthetic controls with imperfect pre-treatment fit

Ferman, B. and Pinto, C. (2021) · 2021