Dear Stata users,
I would really appreciate any help on the following. I'm encountering problems when running the synth.ado routine downloaded from Professor Hainmueller's web page and which which is used to implement the synthetic control method as described in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2010), and Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2013).
The problem: I am using Stata 13.1 on a Windows 7 machine, and whenever I want to include the option "nested" as an attempt to replciate the results in Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2010), I get the following error message:
For instance, the following command works:
But the following does not:
Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Cruz
I would really appreciate any help on the following. I'm encountering problems when running the synth.ado routine downloaded from Professor Hainmueller's web page and which which is used to implement the synthetic control method as described in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2010), and Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2013).
The problem: I am using Stata 13.1 on a Windows 7 machine, and whenever I want to include the option "nested" as an attempt to replciate the results in Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2010), I get the following error message:
Code:
Nested optimization requested Starting nested optimization module __000018 not found r(111);
Code:
synth cigsale lnincome(1980(1)1988) age15to24(1980(1)1988) retprice(1980(1)1988) beer(1984(1)1988) cigsale(1988) cigsale(1980) cigsale(1975), trunit(3) trperiod(1989);
Code:
synth cigsale lnincome(1980(1)1988) age15to24(1980(1)1988) retprice(1980(1)1988) beer(1984(1)1988) cigsale(1988) cigsale(1980) cigsale(1975), trunit(3) trperiod(1989) nested;
Regards,
Cruz
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