The synthetic control method (SCM) is a popular approach for estimating the impact of a
treatment on a single unit in panel data settings. The “synthetic control” is a weighted …

US fair-lending law prohibits lenders from making credit determinations that disparately
affect minority borrowers if those determinations are based on characteristics unrelated to …

This paper introduces a simple framework of counterfactual estimation for causal inference
with time‐series cross‐sectional data, in which we estimate the average treatment effect on …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward
effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose …

We provide evidence that democracy has a positive effect on GDP per capita. Our dynamic
panel strategy controls for country fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, which …

We use data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of
Head Start, the largest early childhood education program in the United States. Head Start …

Little is known about the fiscal costs of natural disasters, especially regarding social safety
nets that do not specifically target extreme weather events. This paper shows that US …

We study the long-run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs
in US history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were …

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been
developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods …

Agnostic notes on regression adjustments to experimental data: Reexamining Freedman's
critique Page 1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 2013, Vol. 7, No. 1, 295–318 DOI: 10.1214/12-AOAS583 …