2 papers
econ.EM2024
Temporal Aggregation for the Synthetic Control Method
Liyang Sun, Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller
The synthetic control method (SCM) is a popular approach for estimating the impact of a treatment on a single unit with panel data. Two challenges arise with higher frequency data…
econ.EM2023
Using Multiple Outcomes to Improve the Synthetic Control Method
Liyang Sun, Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller
When there are multiple outcome series of interest, Synthetic Control analyses typically proceed by estimating separate weights for each outcome. In this paper, we instead propose…