Matching on the Estimated Propensity Score

Econometrica

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 781-807

  Abadie, Alberto ^a,b   Imbens, Guido W ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average treatment effects; Causal inference; Matching estimators; Program evaluation; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961282538     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA11293     Document Type: Article

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