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	Bilanciamento Entropico Spaziale	Spatial Matching Estimator
Campo	Inferenza causale	Inferenza causale
Famiglia	Regression model	Regression model
Anno di origine	2010s	2000s–2010s
Ideatore	Extension of Hainmueller (2012) entropy balancing to spatial settings; spatial adaptations developed in geographic epidemiology and spatial econometrics literature	Extension of Abadie & Imbens (2006) matching estimator to spatial settings; geographic applications developed in urban/environmental econometrics literature
Tipo	Quasi-experimental reweighting	Quasi-experimental causal inference
Fonte seminale	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.	Abadie, A., & Imbens, G. W. (2006). Large Sample Properties of Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects. Econometrica, 74(1), 235-267.
Alias	spatial EB, geographically-weighted entropy balancing, spatial reweighting	geographic matching estimator, spatial nearest-neighbor matching, location-based matching estimator, spatially-weighted matching
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Spatial entropy balancing extends standard entropy balancing to observational settings where units are embedded in geographic space, incorporating spatial structure into the reweighting process so that balance is achieved while respecting spatial proximity, clustering, or spillover dependencies between units.	The Spatial Matching Estimator estimates causal treatment effects by pairing each treated geographic unit with one or more similar untreated units nearby, exploiting the assumption that units close in space share similar unobserved characteristics. By restricting matches to a geographic neighbourhood or weighting by spatial proximity, the method controls for location-specific confounders that standard matching ignores.