Regression modelQuasi-experimental / causal inference
Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Entropy Balancing
Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Entropy Balancing combines entropy balancing — a preprocessing step that reweights control units to match the treatment group on covariate moments — with methods that estimate how the treatment effect varies across subgroups or individuals. It produces covariate-balanced weights without parametric propensity models, then uses those weights to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) across moderating variables.
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- Hainmueller, J. (2012). Entropy balancing for causal effects: A multivariate reweighting method to produce balanced samples in observational studies. Political Analysis, 20(1), 25-46. DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpr025 ↗
- Athey, S., & Imbens, G. W. (2016). Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(27), 7353-7360. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510489113 ↗