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# Module 6
Diff-in-Diff II: Synthetic Control
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- Abadie, Alberto, and Javier Gardeazabal. "The economic costs of conflict: A case study of the Basque Country." American economic review 93, no. 1 (2003): 113-132.
- Abadie, Alberto, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller. "Synthetic control methods for comparative case studies: Estimating the effect of California’s tobacco control program." Journal of the American statistical Association 105, no. 490 (2010): 493-505.
- Xu, Yiqing. "Generalized synthetic control method: Causal inference with interactive fixed effects models." Political Analysis 25, no. 1 (2017): 57-76.