Comparative politics and the synthetic control method revisited: a note on Abadie et al. (2015)
Abstract Recently, Abadie et al. (Am J Polit Sci 59:495–510, 2015) have expanded synthetic control methods by the so-called cross-validation technique. We find that their results are not being reproduced when alternative software packages are used or when the variables’ ordering within the dataset i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-017-0004-9 |