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  1. Botosaru, I., & Ferman, B. (2019). On the role of covariates in the synthetic control method. The Econometrics Journal22(2), 117-130.

  2. Abadie, A. (2021). Using synthetic controls: Feasibility, data requirements, and methodological aspects. Journal of Economic Literature59(2), 391-425.

  3. Athey, S., Bayati, M., Doudchenko, N., Imbens, G., & Khosravi, K. (2021). Matrix completion methods for causal panel data modelsJournal of the American Statistical Association116(536), 1716-1730.

  4. Ferman, B., Pinto, C., & Possebom, V. (2020). Cherry picking with synthetic controlsJournal of Policy Analysis and Management39(2), 510-532.

  5. Dmitry Arkhangelsky & Susan Athey & David A. Hirshberg & Guido W. Imbens & Stefan Wager, 2021. Synthetic Difference-in-Differences, American Economic Review, vol 111(12), pages 4088-4118.

  6. Eli Ben‐Michael & Avi Feller & Jesse Rothstein, 2022. Synthetic controls with staggered adoption, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), vol 84(2), pages 351-381.

  7. Ben-Michael, E., Feller, A., & Rothstein, J. (2021). The augmented synthetic control method. Journal of the American Statistical Association116(536), 1789-1803.

  8. Ferman, B., & Pinto, C. (2021). Synthetic controls with imperfect pretreatment fit. Quantitative Economics, 12(4), 1197-1221.

  9. Wiltshire, J. C. (2022). allsynth: Synthetic Control Bias-Correction Utilities for Stata.

  10. Andersson, Julius J. 2019. Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11 (4): 1-30.

  11. Leroutier, M. (2022). Carbon pricing and power sector decarbonization: Evidence from the UK. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management111, 102580.

  12. Isaksen, E. T. (2020). Have international pollution protocols made a difference?Journal of Environmental Economics and Management103, 102358.

  13. Wiltshire, J. C. (2021). Walmart Supercenters and Monopsony Power: How a Large, Low-Wage Employer Impacts Local Labor Markets. Job market paper.

  14. Dube, A., & Zipperer, B. (2015). Pooling multiple case studies using synthetic controls: An application to minimum wage policies. Available at SSRN 2589786.

  15. Powell, D. (2021). Synthetic Control Estimation Beyond Comparative Case Studies: Does the Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1-13.

  16. Ferman, B. (2021). On the properties of the synthetic control estimator with many periods and many controls. Journal of the American Statistical Association116(536), 1764-1772.

  17. Abadie, Alberto, and Javier Gardeazabal. 2003. The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country. American Economic Review, 93 (1): 113-132.

  18. Abadie, A., Diamond, A. and Hainmueller, J., 2010. Synthetic control methods for comparative case studies: Estimating the effect of California’s tobacco control program. Journal of the American statistical Association, 105(490), pp.4

  19. Abadie, A., Diamond, A. and Hainmueller, J., 2015. Comparative politics and the synthetic control method. American Journal of Political Science, 59(2), pp.495-510.

  20. Liu, L., Wang, Y., & Xu, Y. (2022). A practical guide to counterfactual estimators for causal inference with time-series cross-sectional data. American Journal of Political Science.

  21. Firpo, Sergio, and Vitor Possebom. "Synthetic Control Method: Inference, Sensitivity Analysis and Confidence Sets". Journal of Causal Inference 6.2 (2018)

  22. Abadie, A., & L’Hour, J. (2021). A penalized synthetic control estimator for disaggregated data. Journal of the American Statistical Association116(536), 1817-1834.

  23. Alberto Abadie, Matias D. Cattaneo. (2021) Introduction to the Special Section on Synthetic Control MethodsJournal of the American Statistical Association 116:536, pages 1713-1715.