An Empirical Comparison Between the Synthetic Control Method and HSIAO et al.'s Panel Data Approach to Program Evaluation

By Javier Gardeazabal, Ainhoa Vega-Bayo. 2017

88 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Statistics and Probability

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/19e61107ad19254bfac363fd0bd20abaf8abf635

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• Synthetic Control Methods: Never Use All Pre-Intervention Outcomes Together With Covariates (2015, unknown): “5 When ignoring relevant covariates, the statistician’s principle of using all available data is violated and synthetic controls are not applied as they are intended to be (Gardeazabal and Vega-Bayo, 2017): “the synthetic control is primarily designed to use any covariates that help explain the outc”