Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies

Abadie, A., Diamond, A., & Hainmueller, J. (2010). Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105(490), 493-505.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2010

DOI

10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08746

Link

https://doi.org/10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08746

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statistics_experimental_design

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Primes

• Counterfactual Subtraction
  • Consider the synthetic-control estimator for the effect of a state-level cigarette tax on per-capita consumption.

    This sourceConstructs a donor-weighted synthetic counterfactual matched on pre-policy trends and reads the post-policy gap (with placebo tests) as the treatment effect.

Domain-specific

• Natural Experiment
  • regression discontinuity (Thistlethwaite and Campbell 1960 on National Merit Scholarships), instrumental variables (Angrist 1990 using Vietnam draft lottery numbers as an instrument for military service), Mendelian randomisation (Smith and Ebrahim 2003 using genotype at conception as an instrument for exposure), and synthetic control (Abadie et al. 2010).

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