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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Synthetic controls"”.

  1. Evaluating the impact of meningococcal vaccines with synthetic controls

    Caselle, Michele, Prunas Tola Arnaud Di San Salvatore Filippi Di Baldissero, OttaviaUniversità degli Studi di Torino2021

    unito Repository record

  2. Compared to What? The Effectiveness of Synthetic Control Methods for Causal Inference in Educational Assessment

    Johnson, Clay Stephen2017

    <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 …

    arkansas Repository record

  3. Essays on Econometrics and Policy Evaluation

    Vives-i-Bastida, JaumeMassachusetts Institute of Technology2025

    … 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 …

    mit Repository record

  4. Essays on Biomedical Innovation

    Greenblatt, Wesley H.Massachusetts Institute of Technology2023

    … grow in size and scientific impact compared to controls carefully matched on observables. Rather than the aperture of subsequent innovation narrowing, subfields shift towards exploration as they become more translational, more intellectually distant, more disruptive, and build on more diverse …

    mit Repository record

  5. Essays on Race in Policing

    Johnson, Hunter Robert2021

    … decomposition and generalized synthetic controls, we do not find a significant effect of court-imposed affirmative action plans on the rates of reported offenses or reported offenses cleared by arrest. We also consider whether unlitigated agencies change their practices due to …

    claremont Repository record

  6. The Effect Of Regulation and Policy Changes On Health and Safety Outcomes: Three Essays In Crime Economics

    Garner, Maryah2022

    … decomposition and generalized synthetic controls, we do not find a significant effect of court-imposed affirmative action plans on the rates of reported offenses or reported offenses cleared by arrest, a finding consistent with McCrary (2007). We also consider whether …

    claremont Repository record

  7. Essays on the Effects of Immigration on Labor Markets

    Gulek, AhmetMassachusetts Institute of Technology2025

    … with Jaume Vives-i-Bastida, proposes a Synthetic Instrumental Variables (SIV) estimator for panel data that combines the strengths of instrumental variables and synthetic controls to address unmeasured confounding. We derive conditions under which SIV is consistent and asymptotically …

    mit Repository record

  8. THREE ESSAYS ON THE INFLUENCE OF PEERS AND PRIMARY CARE ENGAGEMENT

    Kost, EdwardTemple University. Libraries2023

    … and frequent emergency department users: A synthetic control analysis,'' studies the effects of an intervention to promote primary care engagement among frequent emergency department users. Emergency departments are one of the costliest places to receive care and are routinely overcrowded. …

    temple Repository record

  9. Essays in Financial Economics and Econometrics

    Orestes, Victor M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology2025

    … first inference method for the distributional synthetic controls of Gunsilius (2023), a novel tool for counterfactual analysis that previously lacked formal inference procedures. We apply this method to evaluate the effects of the Brumadinho dam collapse—a large-scale environmental disaster—on …

    mit Repository record