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	Μέθοδος Συνθετικού Ελέγχου Πολλαπλών Περιόδων	Μέθοδος Συνθετικού Ελέγχου (SCM)
Πεδίο	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	2010-2021	2003–2010
Δημιουργός	Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller (2010); extended to multi-period settings by Abadie (2021) and Ben-Michael et al. (2021)	Alberto Abadie & Javier Gardeazabal (2003); Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller (2010)
Τύπος	Quasi-experimental causal inference	Quasi-experimental causal inference
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Abadie, A. (2021). Using synthetic controls: Feasibility, data requirements, and methodological aspects. Journal of Economic Literature, 59(2), 391-425.	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.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	multi-period SCM, extended synthetic control, synthetic control with multiple treatment periods, staggered synthetic control	SCM, synthetic control, synth estimator, Abadie-Diamond-Hainmueller method
Συναφείς	5	4
Σύνοψη	The multi-period synthetic control method extends the classic synthetic control framework to settings where treatment occurs across several distinct periods or where the researcher needs to track causal effects over a prolonged post-treatment window. It constructs a weighted combination of untreated units that reproduces the treated unit's pre-treatment trajectory, then uses that synthetic counterfactual across all post-treatment periods to estimate time-varying treatment effects.	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.