A Cautionary Note on the Use of Matching to Estimate Causal Effects: An Empirical Example Comparing Matching Estimates to an Experimental Benchmark

By Kevin Arceneaux, A. Gerber, Donald P. Green. 2010

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Statistics and Probability

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• A Hierarchy of Limitations in Machine Learning (2020, background): “This is the case in a fantastic example by Arceneaux et al. (2010), who show that the seemingly innocuous confounder of “reachability by phone” in a test of a get-out-the-vote campaign, is so powerful that it defeats perfect nonparametric matching on all of a rich set of observed covariates (includi”