synthetic-control
Econometrics skill for Synthetic Control Method (SCM). Activates when the user asks about: "synthetic control", "SCM", "synthetic counterfactual", "donor pool", "placebo test", "in-space placebo", "in-time placebo", "MSPE ratio", "Abadie Diamond Hainmueller", "augmented synthetic control", "penalized SCM", "synthetic DID", "合成控制", "合成控制法", "捐助池", "安慰剂检验", "合成反事实", "合成DID", "政策评估"
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill synthetic-control --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Synthetic Control Method (SCM) Skill This skill guides complete synthetic control analyses: donor pool construction, weight optimization, gap estimation, placebo-based inference, and extensions including augmented SCM and synthetic DID. Designed for policy evaluation with few treated units. ## When to Use Synthetic Control | Situation | Method | |-----------|--------| | Single treated unit, many
What does the synthetic-control skill do?
Econometrics skill for Synthetic Control Method (SCM). Activates when the user asks about: "synthetic control", "SCM", "synthetic counterfactual", "donor pool", "placebo test", "in-space placebo", "in-time placebo", "MSPE ratio", "Abadie Diamond Hainmueller", "augmented synthetic control", "penalized SCM", "synthetic DID", "合成控制", "合成控制法", "捐助池", "安慰剂检验", "合成反事实", "合成DID", "政策评估"
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill synthetic-control --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.