A Case Study About Why It Can Be Difficult To Test Whether Propensity Score Analysis Works in Field Experiments

Peikes, Moreno and Orzol (2008) sensibly caution researchers that propensity score analysis may not lead to valid causal inference in field applications. But at the same time, they made the far stronger claim to have performed an ideal test of whether propensity score matching in quasi-experimental...

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Main Authors: William R. Shadish, Peter M. Steiner, Thomas D. Cook
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Arizona Libraries 2013-02-01
Series:Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/jmmss/article/view/16475