st: Synth: Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller

[Jessie C <jessiecoh@gmail.com>]

After using the synth command to generate weights among potential
donors, how do you get an average treatment effect and do inference?

I understand that synth over a set of covariates or lagged dependent
variables indicates which potential controls are most appropriate and
the corresponding weight of how relevant.  I don't understand what to
do with these weights.  Do I proceed as I would have done otherwise
(e.g. OLS) with just the subsample of the treatment and the selected
donors?  (That doesn't seem right because that would ignore the
weights. . . )

Thank you for your help!
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