Search Results - subject:"Synthetic Control"

The Effects of Child Care Provision in Mexico

Calderón, Gabriela - Banco de México - 2014

program I use a combination of triple differences and synthetic control methods, and find that EI increased women …

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Pieters, Hannah; Curzi, Daniele; Olper, Alessandro; … - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2014

mortality. Using a new estimation approach, the Synthetic Control Method, we find that a political reform towards a democracy …

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Impacts of Climate Change on Dengue Risk in Brazil

Pereda, Paula C.; Menezes, Tatiane A. de; Alves, Denisard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

Climate-sensitive health problems kill millions every year and undermine the physical and psychological well-being of millions more. To identify the climate impacts on dengue risk in Brazil, a comparative case study is used based on the synthetic controls approach. The South and Northeast...

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The Public Health Effect of Mandatory and Voluntary Food Safety Measures: Generalized Synthetic Control Methods on Milk Pasteurization in the United States

Wang, Huiqiang; Sproul, Thomas W.; Lang, Corey - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

United States. With generalized synthetic control methods (GSCM), we estimate the casual health impact of city pasteurization …

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The relationship between panel and synthetic control estimators of the effect of civil war

Bove, Vincenzo; Eliay, Leandro; Smith, Ron P - Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics - 2014

We examine the relationship between the case-study, synthetic control and large-N panel-data approaches using the costs … the comparison of a treated case with a synthetic control are closely related. We then illustrate the similarities by …

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Remittances after natural disasters: Evidence from the 2004 Indian tsunami

Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, François-Charles - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

synthetic control methodology. This procedure implies identifying the causal impact of the disaster by comparing the share of … points in share of remittances to GDP in 2005 (compared to the synthetic control group). However, the gap in remittances … observed between Indonesia and the synthetic control decreased steadily over the succeeding years and amounted to 0 …

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