Efficient estimation of average treatment effects using the estimated propensity score

Econometrica

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1161-1189

  Hirano, Keisuke ^a   Imbens, Guido W ^d   Ridder, Geert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Propensity score; Semiparametric efficiency; Sieve estimator; Treatment effects

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC POLICY;

PROPENSITY SCORE; SEMIPARAMETRIC EFFICIENCY; SIEVE ESTIMATOR;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 0141495120     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00442     Document Type: Article

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