Case study: Basque Country terrorism

Why this case matters

Basque is historically central to the synthetic-control literature and is useful when discussing how comparative-case methods interact with historical shocks.

Study defaults in tscfbench

• dataset id: basque_country
• treated unit: Basque Country (Pais Vasco)
• intervention year: 1970
• outcome: gdpcap

Suggested command

python -m tscfbench make-canonical-spec --study-ids basque --data-source snapshot --no-external -o basque.json
python -m tscfbench run-canonical basque.json -o basque_results.json

Teaching tip

Use Basque when you want to connect the benchmark to the historical origins of SCM and discuss robustness across canonical studies rather than a single headline example.