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Table 3 Results from standard SCM (predictor weights V, donor weights W) obtained in different ways

From: Comparative politics and the synthetic control method revisited: a note on Abadie et al. (2015)

 

R

Stata Orig.

Stata Alph.

GDP per capita

48.5

62.9

0.0

Trade openness

0.0

0.0

0.0

Inflation rate

0.1

0.0

0.0

Industry share

0.0

0.0

0.0

Schooling

30.5

17.3

92.0

Investement rate

20.9

19.8

8.0

USA

16.0

16.0

16.0

Austria

62.6

62.6

62.6

Netherlands

1.5

1.5

1.5

Switzerland

13.1

13.1

13.1

Japan

6.8

6.8

6.8

  1. Notes: “R” stands for results obtained using R, “Stata Orig.” are results from Stata with the same ordering of donors as in the code of Abadie et al. (2015), “Stata Alph.” denotes results from Stata with donors sorted alphabetically. All numbers are given in percent, suppressing donors with weight less than 1%