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	Χωρική Μέθοδος Συνθετικού Ελέγχου	Μέθοδος Συνθετικού Ελέγχου (SCM)
Πεδίο	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	2003–2010s	2003–2010
Δημιουργός	Abadie & Gardeazabal (2003); extended to spatial settings by subsequent applied econometric work	Alberto Abadie & Javier Gardeazabal (2003); Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller (2010)
Τύπος	Quasi-experimental causal inference	Quasi-experimental causal inference
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Abadie, A., & Gardeazabal, J. (2003). The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country. American Economic Review, 93(1), 113-132.	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	spatial SCM, geographic synthetic control, spatial SC, spatial counterfactual control	SCM, synthetic control, synth estimator, Abadie-Diamond-Hainmueller method
Συναφείς	6	4
Σύνοψη	The Spatial Synthetic Control Method adapts the classic synthetic control framework to settings where treated and donor units are defined by geographic location. By constructing a weighted combination of spatially proximate or comparable control regions, the method estimates what would have happened to a treated area absent the intervention, while explicitly accounting for geographic spillovers, spatial autocorrelation, and contiguity among units.	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.