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Causal inference when you can't experiment: difference-in-differences and synthetic controls

Linear Digressions

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What's the Synthetic Control for California?

There's no perfect control for california. It's a pretty unique state in many ways. But there were 38 other states that where we can look across roughly the same time period, that didn't pass other types of tobacco legislation. That is your synthetic control. And you ow what happened in fake california.

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