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Propensity Score MatchingRegression DiscontinuityLimited Dependent VariablesChristopher F BaumEC 823: Applied EconometricsBoston College, Spring 2013 Christopher F Baum (BC / DIW)PSM, RD, LDVB oston College, Spring 20131 / 99 Propensity Score matchingPropensity Score matchingPolicy evaluation seeks to determine the effectiveness of a particularintervention. In economic policy analysis, we rarely can work withexperimental data generated by purely random assignment of subjectsto the treatment and control groups. Random assignment, analogousto the randomized clinical trial in medicine, seeks to ensure thatparticipation in the intervention, or treatment, is the only differentiatingfactor between treatment and control non-experimental economic data, we observe whether subjectswere treated or not, but in the absence of random assignment, must beconcerned with differences between the treated and non-treated.
Propensity Score Matching Regression Discontinuity Limited Dependent Variables Christopher F Baum EC 823: Applied Econometrics Boston College, Spring 2013
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