Afternoon Must-Read: Arindrajit Dube and and Ben Zipperer: Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies

Arindrajit Dube and and Ben Zipperer: Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies: “We propose a simple, distribution-free method for pooling synthetic control case studies using the mean percentile rank… …We also test for heterogeneous treatment effects using the distribution of estimated ranks, which has a known form. We … Continue reading Afternoon Must-Read: Arindrajit Dube and and Ben Zipperer: Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies