Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Εκτιμητής Αντιστοίχισης Αξιολόγησης Πολιτικής	Αδρή Ακριβής Αντιστοίχιση (CEM)
Πεδίο	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	1998-2006	2011-2012
Δημιουργός	Heckman, Ichimura & Todd; Abadie & Imbens	Iacus, King, & Porro
Τύπος	Non-parametric causal estimator	Matching / causal inference
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Abadie, A., & Imbens, G. W. (2006). Large sample properties of matching estimators for average treatment effects. Econometrica, 74(1), 235-267.	Iacus, S. M., King, G., & Porro, G. (2012). Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching. Political Analysis, 20(1), 1-24.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	matching estimator, program evaluation matching, treatment effect matching, Abadie-Imbens estimator	CEM, coarsened matching, monotonic imbalance bounding matching
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	The policy evaluation matching estimator estimates the causal effect of a program or policy on treated units by pairing each participant with one or more non-participants who share similar pre-treatment characteristics. Developed rigorously by Heckman, Ichimura & Todd (1998) and Abadie & Imbens (2006), it avoids parametric outcome models and is the standard non-parametric tool for program and policy evaluation.	Coarsened Exact Matching is a preprocessing method that achieves covariate balance by temporarily coarsening continuous variables into bins, exactly matching treated and control units within those bins, and then discarding all unmatched units. Introduced by Iacus, King, and Porro (2011, 2012), it bounds imbalance on each covariate independently, yielding a matched sample on which any estimator can be applied without relying on a propensity score model.