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DiPrete, Thomas A.; Gangl, Markus - 2004

Having close linkages with the counterfactual concept of causality, nonparametric matching estimators have recently … causal model (RCM), the paper discusses the implementation of counterfactual analyses by propensity score matching methods … underlying matching methods relative to standard regression analysis. We then illustrate the application of matching estimators …

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Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation

Imbens, Guido W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and statistical analysis of the effects of such programs or treatments. This recent theoretical literature has...

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Recent developments in the econometrics of program evaluation

Imbens, Guido W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - 2008

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Proving causal relationships using observational data

Bryant, Henry L.; Bessler, David A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

We describe a means of rejecting a null hypothesis concerning observed, but not deliberately manipulated, variables of the form H0: A -/- B in favor of an alternative hypothesis HA: A -- B, even given the possibility of causally related unobserved variables. Rejection of such an H0 relies on the...

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Causal inference with observational data : a tutorial on propensity score analysis

Narita, Kaori; Tena, J. D.; Detotto, Claudio - In: The leadership quarterly : LQ ; an international … 34 (2023) 3, pp. 1-16

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The time for austerity: Estimating the average treatment effect of fiscal policy

Jordà, Òscar; Taylor, Alan M. - Research Center SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for … - 2014

After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty of identifying multipliers from observational data. This paper...

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