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Estimating the Value of Evidence-Based Decision Making
Alberto Abadie, Anish Agarwal, Guido Imbens +4
In an era of data abundance, statistical evidence is increasingly critical for business and policy decisions. Yet, organizations lack empirical tools to assess the value of evidenc…
Synthetic Controls in Action
Alberto Abadie, Jaume Vives-i-Bastida
In this article we propose a set of simple principles to guide empirical practice in synthetic control studies. The proposed principles follow from formal properties of synthetic c…
Synthetic Controls for Experimental Design
Alberto Abadie, Jinglong Zhao
This article studies experimental design in settings where the experimental units are large aggregate entities (e.g., markets), and only one or a small number of units can be expos…
On Statistical Non-Significance
Alberto Abadie
Significance tests are probably the most extended form of inference in empirical research, and significance is often interpreted as providing greater informational content than non…
When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?
Alberto Abadie, Susan Athey, Guido Imbens +1
In empirical work it is common to estimate parameters of models and report associated standard errors that account for "clustering" of units, where clusters are defined by factors…
The Risk of Machine Learning
Alberto Abadie, Maximilian Kasy
Many applied settings in empirical economics involve simultaneous estimation of a large number of parameters. In particular, applied economists are often interested in estimating t…