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Synthetic Interventions
Anish Agarwal, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen
The synthetic controls (SC) methodology is a prominent tool for policy evaluation in panel data applications. Researchers commonly justify the SC framework with a low-rank matrix f…
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Two Burning Questions on COVID-19: Did shutting down the economy help? Can we (partially) reopen the economy without risking the second wave?
Anish Agarwal, Abdullah Alomar, Arnab Sarker +3
As we reach the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most pressing question facing us is: can we even partially reopen the economy without risking a second wave? We first need to und…