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    • Cherry picking with synthetic controls 

      Ferman, Bruno; Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier; Possebom, Vítor Augusto
      2016-06-08
      The synthetic control (SC) method has been recently proposed as an alternative method to estimate treatment e ects in comparative case studies. Abadie et al. [2010] and Abadie et al. [2015] argue that one of the advantages ...

    • Inference in differences-in-differences with few treated groups and heteroskedasticity 

      Ferman, Bruno; Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier
      2015-10-27
      Differences-in-Differences (DID) is one of the most widely used identification strategies in applied economics. However, how to draw inferences in DID models when there are few treated groups remains an open question. We ...

    • Revisiting the synthetic control estimator 

      Ferman, Bruno; Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier
      2016-06-16
      VERSÃO ATUALIZADA DE ABRIL DE 2018 DISPONÍVEL.