Slides from a minicourse on SDID I taught at Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin) in June 2026 to the Evaluation Lab team (Fondo Repubblica Digitale)

  1. [pdf] Intro to Differences-in-Differences and Synthetic Control: potential outcome framework with panel data, latent factor model, DID and SC
  2. [pdf] Synthetic Differences-in-Differences: SDID estimator, double-robustness, staggered designs, event study decomposition
  3. [pdf] More on Synthetic Differences-in-Differences: inference, covariate adjustment, placebo testing