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From | Jessie C <jessiecoh@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Synth: Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller |
Date | Mon, 14 May 2012 18:45:48 -0400 |
After using the synth command to generate weights among potential donors, how do you get an average treatment effect and do inference? I understand that synth over a set of covariates or lagged dependent variables indicates which potential controls are most appropriate and the corresponding weight of how relevant. I don't understand what to do with these weights. Do I proceed as I would have done otherwise (e.g. OLS) with just the subsample of the treatment and the selected donors? (That doesn't seem right because that would ignore the weights. . . ) Thank you for your help! * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/