Matching

Matching methods

• Matching Methods: Why?

• Matching Methods: How?

• A Closer Look at the Methods

o   Subclassification

o   Matching

 Propensity Score Matching

Inverse Probability Weighting

Nearest Neighbors Matching

Coarsened Exact Matching

• Paper Illustration

• Hands-on Session

📝 Main references: Almond et al. (2005), Athey and Imbens (2017), Cunningham (2020), Dehejia and Wahba (2002), Hitt and Frei (2002), Huntington-Klein (2021).

🖫 Datasets: birth_weight from Cattaneo (2010), training_example from Cunningham (2020)