synthetic-control

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The measured wage effect of the Mariel Boatlift flips with sample construction — no effect (Card) versus a 10–30% drop for dropouts (Borjas)

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · economics, labor-economics, immigration, mariel-boatlift, natural-experiments
The synthetic control method was invented to measure the GDP cost of Basque terrorism, finding a ~10-percentage-point per-capita gap

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · economics, econometrics, synthetic-control, natural-experiments, causal-inference
A statistical method built to measure the cost of Basque terrorism was later drafted to referee America's most famous immigration-wage fight

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · labor-economics, migration-policy, natural-experiments, synthetic-control, mariel-boatlift