Efficient estimation of average treatment effects with mixed categorical and continuous data

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 206-223

  Li, Q ^a   Racine, Jeffrey S ^b   Wooldridge, Jeffrey M ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Average treatment effect; Bootstrap; Discrete covariates; Kernel smoothing.

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950836635     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jbes.2009.0015     Document Type: Article

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