Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program
Building on an idea in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), this article investi- gates the application of synthetic control methods to comparative case studies. We discuss the advantages of these methods and apply them to study the ef- fects of Proposition 99, a large-scale tobacco control program tha...
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| Language: | en_US |
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American Statistical Association
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59447 |