Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?

By Jeffrey A. Smith, Petra E. Todd. 2005

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The microeconometric estimation of treatment effects—An overview (2006, methodology): “We will not discuss these algorithms here (see Smith and Todd (2005) for an overview.)”
Affinely invariant matching methods with discriminant mixtures of proportional ellipsoidally symmetric distributions (2006, methodology): “This paper examines the consequences of matching using affinely invariant methods when the covariate distributions are “discriminant mixtures of proportional ellipsoidally symmetric” (DMPES) distributions, a class herein defined, which generalizes the ellipsoidal symmetry class of Rubin and Thomas…”
Employee Treatment and Firm Leverage: A Test of the Stakeholder Theory of Capital Structure (2011, neutral): “As suggested by Smith and Todd (2005), to ensure the quality of the matching, we drop 2% of observations for which the propensity score density of the matched observations is the lowest, because these observations are likely to have the worst quality of matching.”
Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference (2008, methodology): “and includes a large volume of otherwise high quality work in economics ( Smith and Todd, 2005 ),”
"Waiting for Life to Arrive": A history of the regression-discontinuity design in Psychology, Statistics and Economics (2008, result): “However, within-study comparisons from LaLonde (1985) on have shown that Heckman’s selection models regularly fail to recreate the same results as experiments that share the same treatment group (Glazerman, Levy & Myers, 2003; Smith & Todd, 2005; Cook, Shadish & Wong, 2005).”
R&D support programs in developing countries: The Turkish experience (2008, background): “It allows for firm-specific and time-specific unobserved effects to be eliminated by “same-firm” and “same-period” differences, respectively (Lach, 2002; Smith and Todd, 2005).”
The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators (2018, background): “As among others discussed in Smith and Todd (2005), a general representation of all treatment effect estimators adjusting for covariate differences is”
Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment (2010, positive): “Estimating treatment effects by constructing a matched control group and analyzing panel data using a differencein-differences approach is a robust approach (Smith and Todd, 2005) that has been used in many recent program evaluations (e.”
Parametric links for binary choice models: A Fisherian-Bayesian colloquy (2009, methodology): “Several authors, including Dehejia and Wahba (1999), Dehejia and Wahba (2002), and Smith and Todd (2005), have explored the use of propensity score matching methods for estimating average treatment effect using this data.”
The Economics of Sustainable Land Management Practices in the Ethiopian Highlands (2010, neutral): “The seminal explanation of the PSM method is available in Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983), and its strengths and weaknesses are elaborated, for example, by Dehejia and Wahba (2002), Heckman et al. (1998), Caliendo and Kopeinig (2008) and Smith and Todd (2005).”
R&D subsidies and private R&D expenditures: evidence from Italian manufacturing data (2011, background): “Smith and Todd (2005) provide a detailed evaluation of the performance of different matching estimators such as nearest neighbour matching, kernel and local linear matching, and difference-in-differences matching.”
Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty in Bangladesh? New Evidence from Household Panel Data (2012, methodology): “The DID-PSM estimator requires, as specified by Smith and Todd (2005): EðWt0i Wt 0 0i piðXiÞ;Di ¼ 1Þ ¼ EðWt0i Wt 0 0i piðXiÞ; Di ¼ 0Þ where t and t0 are time periods (where t¼ 1 and t0 ¼ 0, or after and before the programme).”
Does Job Loss Shorten Life? (2009, background): “Various balancing tests have been suggested in the literature (see Smith and Todd 2005), but there is no consensus on which of them to apply or on what degree of balance is satisfying.”