Dear Applied Statistics Workshop Community,
Our next meeting of the semester will be on November 30 (12:00 EST).
Alberto Abadie will present "Synthetic Controls for Experimental Design."
<Where>
Hybrid: CGIS K354 or Zoom
Bagged lunches are available for pick-up at 11:40 (CGIS K354).
Zoom:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99181972207?pwd=Ykd3ZzVZRnZCSDZqNVpCSURCNnVvQT09
<Abstract>
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 exposed to the treatment. In such settings,
randomization of the treatment may induce large ex-post estimation biases
under many or all possible treatment assignments. We propose a variety of
synthetic control designs as experimental designs to select treated units
in non-randomized experiments with large aggregate units, as well as the
untreated units to be used as a control group. Average potential outcomes
are estimated as weighted averages of treated units for potential outcomes
with treatment, and control units for potential outcomes without treatment.
We analyze the properties of such estimators and propose new inferential
techniques.
<2022 Schedule>
GOV 3009 Website:
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stats.workshop-gov3009
Calendar:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_3v93pav9fjkkldrbu9snbhned8…
Best,
Shusei