Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method

By Alberto Abadie, A. Diamond, Jens Hainmueller. 2014

Subfields: Causal Inference & Discovery, Economics & Operations Research

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Revisiting the Minimum Wage—Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater? (2014, unknown): “Column (2) shows the estimates using the 129 “clean” minimum wage experiments that were the starting point for the Abadie et al. (2010) synthetic control analysis; the states used to construct the counterfactual are equally weighted.”
What Happened to Kobe? A Reassessment of the Impact of the 1995 Earthquake in Japan (2012, methodology): “Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller ð2014Þ ine the impact of German reunification using the same methodology, while Pinotti ð2012Þ uses ame to estimate the cost of the Mafia on economic activity in southern Italy. duPont and Noy 779 The methodology simulates conditions after an exogenous event ðin…”
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE LABOR MARKET EFFECTS OF A REFUGEE WAVE: APPLYING THE SYNTHETIC CONTROL METHOD TO THE MARIEL BOATLIFT (2015, methodology): “The Synthetic Control Method (SCM), first introduced by Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) and then further developed in Abadie et al. (2010, 2015), provides a systematic way of analyzing the impact of case-study events such as the Mariel Boatlift.”
The Costs of Economic Nationalism: Evidence from the Brexit Experiment* (2019, unknown): “We follow Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003); Abadie et al. (2010, 2015) and use synthetic control methods to construct precisely such a doppelganger to the UK economy.”
Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, unknown): “Abadie et al. (2014) describe how to implement a method of “synthetic controls” as a way to construct the control group in DD-type estimation environments.”
Shock-Based Causal Inference in Corporate Finance and Accounting Research (2015, methodology): “72See also Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003); Abadie et al. (2015).”
Synthetic Control Method: Inference, Sensitivity Analysis and Confidence Sets (2018, unknown): “As Abadie et al. (2010) and Abadie et al. (2015) make clear, this inference procedure 10As an anonymous referee pointed out, Abadie et al. (2010) and Abadie et al. (2015) exclude the treated unit from the donor pool of the placebo runs in order to avoid bias when there is a treatment effect.”
On the role of covariates in the synthetic control method (2019, unknown): “This may not necessarily be the case if we consider the use of crossvalidation, as proposed by Abadie et al. (2015). c© Royal Economic Society 2018 of the SC method.”