Research Article

Analysis of the Impact of High-Speed Railway on County Economic Development Based on the Synthetic Control Method: The Hubei Province in China

Table 6

Comparison of control variables.

VariableChibi CityHong’an CountyMacheng City
True valueSynthetic valueTrue valueSynthetic valueTrue valueSynthetic value

secondprop49.86544.8607352.34545.8612142.87544.81798
thirdprop33.27529.4544232.1429.265934.6834.47725
lnfinancialex10.28510.3131610.23510.1144910.65510.12333
lnfixasset11.74511.6859411.32510.8989811.79511.6985
lnsaving11.9512.3075211.70511.7049512.0812.13376
lngdp (2005)13.3413.316112.5612.5934313.0713.10484
lngdp (2008)13.113.1000513.6413.61883
lngdp (2009)13.9113.92081
RMSPE0.018320.03337970.021254