8.8 Examples & Further Readings

• Matching methods for causal inference: A review and a look forward (Stuart 2010)
• Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods Using a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization (Arceneaux, Gerber, and Green 2006)
• A Cautionary Note on the Use of Matching to Estimate Causal Effects: An Empirical Example Comparing Matching Estimates to an Experimental Benchmark (Arceneaux, Gerber, and Green 2010)
• Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference (Ho et al. 2007)
• Opiates for the Matches: Matching Methods for Causal Inference (Sekhon 2009)

References

Arceneaux, Kevin, Alan S Gerber, and Donald P Green. 2006. “Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods Using a Large-Scale Voter Mobilization Experiment.” Polit. Anal. 14 (1): 37–62.

Arceneaux, Kevin, Alan S Gerber, and Donald P Green. 2010. “A Cautionary Note on the Use of Matching to Estimate Causal Effects: An Empirical Example Comparing Matching Estimates to an Experimental Benchmark.” Sociol. Methods Res. 39 (2): 256–82.

Ho, D E, K Imai, G King, and E A Stuart. 2007. “Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference.” Political Analysis: An Annual Publication of the Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association.

Sekhon, Jasjeet S. 2009. “Opiates for the Matches: Matching Methods for Causal Inference.” Annual Review of Political Science 12 (1): 487–508.

Stuart, E A. 2010. “Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A Review and a Look Forward.” Stat. Sci.