Synthetic Control Methods: Never Use All Pre-Intervention Outcomes Together With Covariates
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Synthetic Control Methods; Economic Predictors; Counterfactuals; Policy Evaluation.;All these keywords.
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- C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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