Synthetic Control
Overview
1
Synthetic Control
1.1
The estimator
1.2
synth
package
1.3
Prison Construction
1.4
Estimate the Weighted Treatment Effect
1.5
Plot the Graph
1.6
Plot the Gap or Difference
2
Randomized Inference
2.1
Placebo Tests
2.1.1
Caculate
\(RMSPE\)
for each state
2.1.2
Calculate the gap for each state
2.2
Calculate pre-treatment and post-treatment
\(RMSPE\)
2.3
Sort and Rank
2.4
Calculate exact
\(p\)
-values
2.5
Plot all Placebos
2.6
Remove poor matches
References
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Synthetic Control
Synthetic Control
Samuel Rowe adapted from Cunningham (2021)
2026-04-28
Overview
Topics:
Synthetic Control
Randomized Inference