Efficiency Bounds for Missing Data Models With Semiparametric Restrictions

Econometrica

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 437-452

  Graham, Bryan S ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

(augmented) inverse probability weighting; Average treatment effects; Causal inference; Double robustness; Missing data; Propensity score; Semiparametric efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951548998     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA7379     Document Type: Article

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