Implementing Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects in Stata

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1 August 2004

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Published by SAGE Publications in The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata

Vol. 4 (3) , 290-311
https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x0400400307

Abstract

This paper presents an implementation of matching estimators for average treatment effects in Stata. The nnmatch command allows you to estimate the average effect for all units or only for the treated or control units; to choose the number of matches; to specify the distance metric; to select a bias adjustment; and to use heteroskedastic-robust variance estimators.

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