Sensitivity of propensity score methods to the specifications

Economics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-319

  Zhao, Zhong ^a  

^a IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causal model; Matching; Monte Carlo; Propensity score; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049122731     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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