Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Based on Propensity Scores
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- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
- Vol. 2 (4) , 358-377
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x0200200403
Abstract
In this paper, we give a short overview of some propensity score matching estimators suggested in the evaluation literature, and we provide a set of Stata programs, which we illustrate using the National Supported Work (NSW) demonstration widely known in labor economics.Keywords
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