Compara mètodes

	Avaluació d'Impact Contrafactual en la Recerca Educativa	Mètode del Control Sintètic (SCM)
Camp	Inferència causal	Inferència causal
Família	Regression model	Regression model
Any d'origen	2000s–2010s	2003–2010
Autor original	Blundell & Costa Dias; formalized for EU education policy by the European Commission Joint Research Centre	Alberto Abadie & Javier Gardeazabal (2003); Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller (2010)
Tipus	Quasi-experimental causal inference framework	Quasi-experimental causal inference
Font seminal	Blundell, R., & Costa Dias, M. (2002). Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics. Portuguese Economic Journal, 1(2), 91-115.	Abadie, A., Diamond, A., & 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), 493-505.
Àlies	CIE in education, counterfactual program evaluation, causal impact evaluation, education policy impact evaluation	SCM, synthetic control, synth estimator, Abadie-Diamond-Hainmueller method
Relacionats	5	4
Resum	Counterfactual impact evaluation (CIE) is the systematic application of causal inference designs — such as difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, matching, and instrumental variables — to measure the genuine effect of education programs, policies, or interventions by constructing a credible counterfactual: what would have happened to participants had they not been treated.	The Synthetic Control Method estimates the causal effect of a treatment or policy on a single treated unit by constructing a weighted combination of untreated units — the synthetic control — that closely resembles the treated unit before the intervention. The gap between the treated unit and its synthetic counterpart after the intervention is the estimated treatment effect.