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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Synthetic Control Methods"”.
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Compared to What? The Effectiveness of Synthetic Control Methods for Causal Inference in Educational Assessment
<p>Synthetic control methods are an innovative matching technique first introduced within the economics and political science literature that have begun to find application in educational research as well. Synthetic controls create an aggregate-level, time-series comparison for a single treated …
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Essays on complexity and causality in political science research
… on the use of computational and causal inference methods in political science research. The first essay examines the validity of the synthetic control method under complex analytical settings. The synthetic control method is increasingly being used to estimate the effect of an intervention when …
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Essays on Econometrics and Policy Evaluation
… that study the statistical properties of synthetic control methods and their application to public policy evaluation and the digital economy. The first chapter, co-written with Ahmet Gulek, proposes a Synthetic Instrumental Variables (SIV) estimator for panel data that combines the …
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Essays in urban and regional economics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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THE LOCAL EFFECT OF COLLEGE CLOSURES
… lacking. To address this gap, I leverage synthetic control methods to examine the effect that closures have on local educational and economic outcomes in South Korea and the United States. First, in South Korea, I investigate the impact that the closures of three universities and one …
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AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES, INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION, AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
… universities as a natural experiment after controlling for the confounding factors with a combination of synthetic control methods and event-study analyses. Three key results are obtained. First, the designation substantially increased local population density. Second, the share of …
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THREE ESSAYS ON THE INFLUENCE OF PEERS AND PRIMARY CARE ENGAGEMENT
… leads to biased estimates. I adapt Monte Carlo methods developed for studying measurement error when peers' interactions are missing at random to understand the effects of top-coding, non-random errors and spurious peer interactions. I find that non-random errors pose the greatest threat, often …
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Essays in Health Economics
… as other sources the program is evaluated using synthetic control methods. The findings show that Healthy Start has been able to reduce infant mortality rate in certain areas, while it has been less effective in other sites. This could be due to each program site being separately run, although …
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Investigating the Relationship between Built Environment and Subjective Wellbeing
… thesis applies econometric and machine learning methods to model the relationship between residential relocation, BE change, and SWB. A decade of UK national-level panel data on residential relocations emulate largescale quasi- experiments of individuals moving within and across holistic BE …
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Three essays on applied microeconomics
… answered. In this chapter I propose the use of Synthetic Control Methods (SCM) to overcome several identification problems present in previous studies when constructing comparison groups/counterfactuals. I apply the SCM to analyze the effect of New York State’s law prohibiting handheld cell …