Propensity score-matching methods for nonexperimental causal studies

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 151-161

  Dehejia, Rajeev H ^b   Wahba, Sadek ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0036102924     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465302317331982     Document Type: Review

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