Search Results - subject:"Synthetic Control"

The Effect of Islamic Revolution and War on Income Inequality in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Kadivar, Mohammad Ali - 2021

1980 to 1988. We use the synthetic control method to study the effect of revolution and war on changes in income inequality … levels. Had there been no revolution and war in Iran, how would income inequality have developed? Utilizing the synthetic … control method, we created a counterfactual Iran that reproduces the socioeconomic characteristics of Iran before the Islamic …

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Assessing alternative indicators for Covid-19 policy evaluation, with a counterfactual for Sweden

Latour, Chiara; Peracchi, Franco; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2021

synthetic control method. Correcting for data problems and optimizing the synthetic control for each indicator considered, we …

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Economic sanctions and trade flows in the neighbourhood

Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2021

-study analysis using the synthetic control method. We find that, on average, economic sanctions tend to have a negative effect on …

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Lockdown effects in US states: an artificial counterfactual approach

Carneiro, Carlos B.; Ferreira, Iuri H.; Medeiros, Marcelo C. - 2021

We adopt an artificial counterfactual approach to assess the impact of lockdowns on the short-run evolution of the number of cases and deaths in some US states. To do so, we explore the different timing in which US states adopted lockdown policies, and divide them among treated and control...

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

techniques to infer causal effects including instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, event study, and synthetic … control estimations. The addendum contains extended abstracts of three further research projects during the Ph.D. phase of …

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Synthetic controls with imperfect pretreatment fit

Ferman, Bruno; Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier - In: Quantitative Economics 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1197-1221

We analyze the properties of the Synthetic Control (SC) and related estimators when the pre-treatment fit is imperfect …

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Does inter-local cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany

Bischoff, Ivo; Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2021

We ask whether inter-municipal cooperation serve as a platform by which municipalities coor-dinate tax policies and reduce the intensity of tax competition. In this paper, we focus on inter-municipal cooperation in form of inter-local industrial parks. We apply the generalized syn-thetic control...

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