방법 비교

	공간적 조밀화된 정확 일치법 (Spatial CEM)	공간 회귀 불연속 설계 (Spatial RDD)
분야	인과추론	인과추론
계열	Regression model	Regression model
기원 연도	2012 (CEM foundation); spatial extension in applied literature 2015-present	2010s
창시자	Iacus, King & Porro (CEM foundation, 2012); extended to spatial contexts by applied spatial econometricians	Popularized by Dell (2010); formalized for geographic boundaries by Keele & Titiunik (2015)
유형	Quasi-experimental matching estimator with spatial covariates	Quasi-experimental causal inference
원전	Iacus, S. M., King, G., & Porro, G. (2012). Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching. Political Analysis, 20(1), 1-24.	Dell, M. (2010). The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita. Econometrica, 78(6), 1863-1903.
별칭	Spatial CEM, Geographic CEM, Spatial exact matching, CEM with spatial covariates	Spatial RDD, Geographic RDD, Border RD Design, Geographic Discontinuity Design
관련	6	4
요약	Spatial Coarsened Exact Matching applies the Coarsened Exact Matching framework to study designs involving geographic units — neighbourhoods, census tracts, municipalities, or grid cells. Covariates are coarsened into discrete bins and units are matched exactly on those bins, with spatial attributes (location, adjacency, geographic characteristics) incorporated as matching dimensions to control for spatial confounding.	Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design uses a geographic or administrative boundary as the threshold that assigns units to treatment. Observations just inside one side of the boundary are compared with those just outside it, exploiting the near-random variation in treatment status near the cutoff to recover a local causal effect. The approach is widely used in economics, political science, and public health when policies or institutions change sharply at a border.