Coarsened Exact Matching and Entropy Balancing (The Effect, Videos on Causality, Ep 39)
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The Effect is a book about research design and causal inference. How can we use data to learn about the world? How can we answer questions about whether X causes Y even if we can't run a randomized experiment? The book covers these things and plenty more. These videos are meant to accompany the book, although they can also be viewed on their own.
This video relates to material found in Chapter 14 of the book.
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Why use a decision-ridden matching process that may fail and make you have to go back and readjust the model over and over? In this video I cover two different forms of non-iterative matching that always get it right the first time (but at what cost?): coarsened exact matching and entropy balancing.