{"id":6132,"date":"2024-09-20T07:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2024-09-20T07:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:14:28","slug":"articolo-optimal-initial-donor-selection-for-the-synthetic-control-method-su-economics-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/articolo-optimal-initial-donor-selection-for-the-synthetic-control-method-su-economics-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Articolo &#8220;Optimal initial donor selection for the synthetic control method&#8221; su Economics Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E&#8217; stato pubblicato sulla rivista <strong>Economics Letters<\/strong> (Elsevier),\u00a0 l&#8217;articolo &#8220;<span class=\"title-text\"><strong>Optimal <em>initial<\/em> donor selection for the synthetic control method<\/strong>&#8221; a cura di <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/team\/cerulli-giovanni\/\">Giovanni Cerulli.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"d1e253\" class=\"abstract author\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"section-title u-h4 u-margin-l-top u-margin-xs-bottom\"><em><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This paper argues that the performance of the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) can depend on the initial set of control units (donors) due to a bias\u2013variance trade-off. A forward stepwise selection algorithm, validated via cross-validation, may reduce prediction error by suggesting to use fewer donors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"title-text\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"publication-volume u-text-center\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_6133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6133\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/economicsletters-1024x591.png\" alt=\"economicsletters\" width=\"515\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/economicsletters-1024x591.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/economicsletters-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/economicsletters-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/economicsletters-1536x886.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/economicsletters.png 1539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">economicsletters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"publication-title\" class=\"publication-title u-h3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span class=\"anchor-text-container\"><span class=\"anchor-text\">Economics Letters, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"anchor-text-container\"><span class=\"anchor-text\">Volume 244<\/span><\/span>, November 2024, 111976<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"title-text\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E&#8217; stato pubblicato sulla rivista Economics Letters (Elsevier),\u00a0 l&#8217;articolo &#8220;Optimal initial donor selection for the synthetic control method&#8221; a cura&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pubblicazioni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6138,"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions\/6138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ircres.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}