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	Evaluación de Políticas mediante Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM)	Emparejamiento por Puntuación de Propensión
Campo	Inferencia causal	Estadística para la investigación
Familia	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	2011-2012	1983
Autor original	Iacus, King & Porro	Paul Rosenbaum and Donald Rubin
Tipo	Matching / quasi-experimental design	Method
Fuente seminal	Iacus, S. M., King, G., & Porro, G. (2012). Causal inference without balance checking: Coarsened exact matching. Political Analysis, 20(1), 1-24.	Rosenbaum, P. R., & Rubin, D. B. (1983). The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects. Biometrika, 70(1), 41–55.
Alias	CEM, Coarsened Exact Matching, CEM policy evaluation, coarsening-based matching	PSM, propensity score weighting, covariate balance
Relacionados	5	3
Resumen	Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM) is a quasi-experimental causal-inference technique that creates balanced treatment and control groups from observational data by temporarily coarsening covariates into bins, exactly matching units within those bins, and then pruning unmatched observations before estimating policy effects. Introduced by Iacus, King, and Porro, CEM belongs to the monotonic imbalance bounding family of matching methods and is especially popular in policy evaluation.	Propensity score matching (PSM) is a method for reducing confounding bias in observational studies by balancing baseline characteristics between treatment groups, simulating randomization. Developed by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983), it estimates the probability of receiving treatment given observed covariates, then matches or weights treated and control individuals with similar treatment probabilities. Widely used in medicine, epidemiology, and policy evaluation when randomized trials are infeasible or unethical, enabling estimation of treatment effects while controlling for selection bias.