Finite-sample properties of propensity-score matching and weighting estimators

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-90

  Frölich, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b IZA   (Germany)

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EID: 12144290088     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465304323023697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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