I am not sure whether the problem is clear. Propensity scoring and nearest
neighbour
are two very different techniques. I am also unclear as to what stata
function this problem refers to.
Matt
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Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:11 AM
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Subject: st: Propensity score matching
Hi!
I want to perform a several-nearest-neighbour matching and match on an
additional (dummy) variable besides "pscore".
To just include this variable in the psmatch statement is not possible. My
solution to this problem is to divide the sample and perform separate
matchings,
and then "append" the two parts before I compare outcome means.
If this is right I would receive similar results as if I actually could
include
this second variable in the psmatch statement. However, testing the
correspondance between these procedures in a nearest neighbour matching, the
results differ a little bit. When I perform a Kernal matching, the results
differ a lot.
The question is why these approaches do not correspond.
Since the number of observations in the two approaches does not fully
correspond I
suspect there is a common support issue.
Do you have an idea how to solve this problem?
Greatfully!!
/pathric
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