Re: st: RE: psmatch2 with the if condition

[Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com>]

Nick--

I think the poster is confusing _n1 and _id, which are defined clearly
in the help file for -psmatch2-, and simple summary stats would
disabuse him of his notion that _id is capturing matches.

use http://pped.org/lalonde, clear
psmatch2 t age educ if black==1, out(re78)
su _* if black==0
su _* if black==1
reg re78 t [aw=_w]



On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> In effect you raise two new points:
>
> 1. Whether -psmatch2- promises, implicitly or explicitly, to match
> companies [in your case] in a specified subset only with others in the
> same subset.
>
> 2. How to achieve that if that is what you wish.
>
> On 1, the best answers will come from the program authors, who may or
> may not be currently members of this list.
>
> A solution 2 that is possible: You could temporarily -drop- observations
> that you don't want to be included from the dataset. That way,
> -psmatch2- will not see any others.
> However, I wouldn't implementing that until you have a good answer on 1.
>
>
> I haven't read the -psmatch2- help. But the looping you quote looks
> sound, and yours is buggy, so I recommend that you base your code more
> closely on that example.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Roberto Mura
>
> Nick,
> Thank you for your kind reply. The loop is not the main issue. Even
> if I do not specify any loop but simply code:
> use "C:\AAA.dta", clear
> catenate condition1 =  country sic2
> gen quotedcondition1=1 if quotedcompany==1
> replace quotedcondition1=0 if quotedcompany==0 & diversification_orig==1
> gen quotednumerator=.
> gen quoteddenomenator=.
> gen privatenumerator=.
> gen privatedenominator=.
> egen g=group(condition1)
> bysort condition1: gen Ncondition1=_N
>
> psmatch2 quotedcondition1 if g==1, pscore(size) noreplacement
>
> I still find that psmatch2 uses companies which do not belong to
> group 1 to look for matches. As a matter of fact, it is assigning _id
> values outside the range of group 1 (there are just 15 firms in it
> but psmatch2 reports values like 877). Also, I am not blaming
> psmatch2 for anything and I never said I discovered a bug. I am just
> trying to understand what I am doing wrong. Also, please note that my
> code is very similar to the one reported in the help of psmatch2
> which I report below for simplicity:
> Matching within strata
>     The following code illustrates how to match within exact cells
> and then calculate the average effect for the whole population.
>
>         g att = .
>         egen g = group(groupvars)
>         levels g, local(gr)
>         qui foreach j of local gr {
>                 psmatch2 treatvar varlist if g==`j', out(outvar)
>                 replace att = r(att) if  g==`j'
>         }
>         sum att
>
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