State-Building through Public Land Disposal? An Application of Matrix Completion for Counterfactual Prediction
This article examines how homestead policies, which opened vast frontier lands for settlement, influenced the development of American frontier states. It uses a treatment propensity-weighted matrix completion model to estimate the counterfactual size of these states without homesteading. In simulati...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Statistics and Public Policy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/2330443X.2024.2356514 |
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