Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 448, 1999, Pages 1053-1062

  Dehejia, Rajeev H ^a   Wahba, Sadek ^b  

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

^b MORGAN STANLEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matching; Program evaluation; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442309558     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473858     Document Type: Article

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