Alberto Abadie

Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Rubenstein-316
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 10
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-4547
Email: alberto_abadie@harvard.edu
Assistant
Jennifer Valois (617-495-1339)
Alberto Abadie

Profile

Alberto Abadie is Professor of Public Policy. His main research areas are econometrics, labor economics, and public finance. In his research, Alberto Abadie has developed econometric methods to evaluate the effects of public programs. In addition, as a native of the Basque region of Spain, Alberto Abadie has long been interested in issues concerning terrorism. Alberto Abadie's recent research uses data and economic models to analyze the causes and consequences of terrorism. He received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Courses

Spring

  • API-210 Advanced Quantitative Methods II: Econometric Methods

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles
    • Abadie, Alberto, Alexis Diamond and Jens Hainmueller. "Synth: An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods in Comparative Case Studies." Journal of Statistical Software 42.13 (June 2011): 1-17.
    • Abadie, Alberto, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller. "Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program." Journal of the American Statistical Association 105.490 (June 2010): 493-505.
    • Abadie, Alberto, and Guido W. Imbens. "On the Failure of the Bootstrap for Matching Estimators." Econometrica 76.6 (November 2008): 1537-1557.
    • Abadie, Alberto, and Guido W. Imbens. "Large Sample Properties of Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects." Econometrica 74.1 (2006): 235-267.
    • Abadie, Alberto. "Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators." Review of Economic Studies 72.1 (2005): 1-19.
    • Abadie, Alberto. "Semiparametric Instrumental Variable Estimation of Treatment Response Models." Journal of Econometrics 113.2 (2003): 231-263.
    • Abadie, Alberto, and Javier Gardeazabal. "The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country." American Economic Review 93.1 (2003): 113-132.
    • Abadie, Alberto, Joshua Angrist, and Guido W. Imbens. "Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Effect of Subsidized Training on the Quantiles of Trainee Earnings." Econometrica 70.1 (2002): 91-117.
    • Abadie, Alberto. "Bootstrap Tests for Distributional Treatment Effects in Instrumental Variable Models." Journal of the American Statistical Association 97 (2002): 284-292.
  • Commentary
    • Abadie, Alberto. ""Breeding Terror."." New York Post, December 22, 2004.