Search Results - subject:"Synthetic Control"

The effect of the troubles on GDP in Northern Ireland

Dorsett, Richard - In: European journal of political economy 29 (2013), pp. 119-133

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Assist or Desist? Conditional Bailouts and Fiscal Discipline in Local Governments

Dietrichson, Jens; Ellegård, Lina Maria - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012

with the obvious selection problem related to participation in such a program, we use the synthetic control method (Abadie …

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The Economic Costs of Organized Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy

Pinotti, Paolo - "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social … - 2012

and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organized … crime. The synthetic control is a weighted average of other regions less aected by maa activity that mimics the economic … increase sharply relative to the synthetic control. Evidence from electricity consumption and growth accounting suggests that …

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Algeria’s Trade with GAFTA Countries: A Synthetic Control Approach

Hosny, Amr - In: Transition Studies Review 19 (2012) 1, pp. 35-42

the agreement in 1998. I employ synthetic control methods (SCM) in the context of the gravity approach to international … trade to estimate this counterfactual outcome. The SCM creates the synthetic control unit based on a weighted average of the …

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The Effect of Kyoto Emission Targets on Domestic CO2 Emissions: A Synthetic Control Approach

Almer, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2012

, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Japan by using a synthetic control approach. With the exception of Great …

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Sovereign risk and armed conflict : an event-study for Colombia

Castaneda, Andrés; Vargas, Juan F. - In: Defence and peace economics 23 (2012) 2, pp. 185-201

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Right-to-Work Laws and State-Level Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the Case Studies of Idaho and Oklahoma Using Synthetic Control Method

Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, I. Serkan - Department of Economics, University of Nevada-Las Vegas - 2011

The role of right-to-work laws on state economies, labor organizations and employees are controversial and important policy questions. Empirical evidence is far from being conclusive predominantly due to identification issues. Using a recently developed econometric technique and exploiting the...

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The Effects of Performance-Based Teacher Pay on Student Achievement

Hudson, Sally - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2010

-performing schools, assignment to the intervention is nonrandom. I use synthetic control matching methods to identify appropriate …

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Robustness of Group Runs Control Chart to Non-normality

Gadre, M. P.; Rattihalli, R. N.; Shewade, A. V. - In: Stochastics and Quality Control 20 (2005) 1, pp. 81-95

Abstract Most of the commonly used control charts for variables have been developed under the assumption that the observations are coming from a normal population. One of them is ‘Group Runs’ GR control chart to detect shifts in the process mean proposed by Gadre and Rattihalli (Economic...

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The Impact of the ï¿½Free Choiceï¿½ Work/Family Reforms of France and Belgium. A Synthetic Control Analysis

Federico Podestï¿½ - Istituto per la Ricerca Valutativa sulle Politiche …

impact evaluation of this policy-intervention period. The synthetic control method has allowed to contrast the evolution of …

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