Propensity Score Matching Approach
Impact Evaluation of Remittance for Pakistan: Propensity Score Matching Approach
... the propensity score and evaluates the impact using data from common support area for both RBH and NRBH ...the propensity score matching approach which replicates the ...
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Conviction, Gender and Labour Market Status: A Propensity Score Matching Approach
... a propensity score matching approach to determine the causal effect of conviction on labour market status of convicted ...years, propensity score matching approach ...
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The Effects of Remittances on Poverty at the Household Level in Bolivia: A Propensity Score Matching Approach
... 7. Conclusions This paper contributes to the literature of remittances and poverty by studying the direct effect between remittances and poverty at a household level in Bolivia. We use micro data collected in 2008 by the ...
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Assessing the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nigerian Households: A Propensity Score Matching Approach
... of table 1 are considerably closer to those of the treatment (HIV-positive) group. It is in this sense that the propensity score matching approach mimics an experimental design. When we ...
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The Effects of Breastfeeding on Childhood BMI: A Propensity Score Matching Approach
... the propensity to breastfeed recorded during pregnancy or as close to the time of birth as possible are included in order to predict the propensity to ...
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The effects of breastfeeding on childhood BMI: a propensity score matching approach
... 11 Propensity score matching (PSM) is a tech- nique that tries to mimic a randomized trial while relax- ing some of these ...used propensity score (PS) approaches, 11 , 30 , 31 ...
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The effects of training on Romanian migrants’ income: a propensity score matching approach
... The results are highly significant, but the pseudo R 2 is modest (6,36%) and it is obvious that more variables are needed to overcome unobserved influences. This number shows to what extent the included covariates ...
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A skeptics view of the AGOA preferences of the USA: A propensity score matching approach
... the propensity score regression) provides the Caribbean countries a competitive edge over the SSA counterparts—hence the negative ATT estimates in some ...
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and birthweight - A propensity score matching approach
... The matching method provides a way to estimate treatment effects when controlled randomization is not ...the matching estimator approximates the virtues of randomization mainly by balancing the distribution ...
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The effects of training on Romanian migrants’ income: a propensity score matching approach
... The propensity score was estimated through pscore command in STATA12, which employs a Probit regression model in this ...greater propensity compared to those with other marital ...
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Willing to pay more for high-quality schools?: A hedonic pricing and propensity score matching approach
... investment in children’s future. Using Xiamen Island as a case study, this study empirically appraises the value that parents place on school quality by estimating how much residents are willing to pay for a xuequfang ...
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Evaluating the Effects of Farm Programs: Results from Propensity Score Matching
... non-parametric propensity score matching approach to evaluate the effects of two types of farm programs (agri-environment (AE) programs and the less favoured area (LFA) scheme) on input use ...
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Latent Variables and Propensity Score Matching
... Our approach can be easily extended to more complex situations, for example, involving more latent variables and allowing for correlations with other variables in a ...
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Head to head comparison of the propensity score and the high-dimensional propensity score matching methods
... In their original paper, Schneeweiss et al. [7] assessed the performance of the hdPS method by comparing measures of associations adjusted for patients’ hdPS to the results of a RCT. By showing that the adjusted mea- ...
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Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
... Ham, Li, and Reagan (2003) study the effect of a migration decision on the wage growth of young men and Bryson (2002) analyse the effect of union membership on wages of employees. Every microeconometric evaluation study ...
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A wild bootstrap algorithm for propensity score matching estimators
... Finally, we provide an empirical illustration using survey data from rural (FYR) Macedo- nia that were previously analyzed in Huber, Kotevska, Martinovska-Stojcheska, and Solovyeva (2016) to evaluate the effects of an ...
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A New Heuristic for Propensity Score Matching in Observational Studies
... iterative matching, PSM was conducted using both methods on each of the samples from Table ...the propensity score and units were matched based on the logit of the propensity score, ...
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Propensity score matching and policy impact analysis - a demonstration in EViews
... the propensity score is based only on observable characteristics clearly shows that the method assumes away unobservable heterogeneity that might arise from purposive placement into a ...second ...
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Propensity Score Matching Methods for Non-experimental Causal Studies
... An important feature of our method is that, after units are matched, the unmatched comparison units are discarded, and are not directly used in estimating the treatment im- pact. This contrasts with approaches that use ...
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Evaluation of Credit Guarantee Policy using Propensity Score Matching
... number approach (Good, 1985; Aw et ...This approach allows us to make transitive comparisons of productivity levels among observations in a panel data ...
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