Error estimating treatment effects synth-runner

[Dayanna Erazo]

Hello all, Thanks in advance for your help with this request. I am attempting to run models using the “synth_runner” command for estimating the synthetic control method using multiple treatment units treated at different moments in time. Yet when I run this model "synth_runner depvar indepvar1 indepvar2 indepvar3, d(D)” I receive the following error: “Error estimating treatment effect for unit 13 file not found.” I have read this thread on Stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...s-synth-runner) but I don’t think that any of the three potential sources of the problem listed there apply to my data (1. missing outcome data; 2. unit names are too long; 3. lack of variation on a covariate). If anyone has had similar experience I’d be super grateful for any feedback you can provide. Thanks!

[Phil Bromiley]

Welcome to Statalist. You'll increase your chances of a useful answer by following the FAQ on asking questions - provide Stata code in code delimiters, readable Stata output, and sample data using dataex. Being able to replicate your problem can be essential to helping you. Apparently the problem has something to do with the data since it mentions unit 13.

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