Bias-Corrected Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects
针对简单匹配估计量存在条件偏差、收敛速度慢的问题，提出一种偏差校正方法，使估计量达到根号N一致且渐近正态，并通过NSW数据和模拟研究验证其优于简单匹配和回归估计。
In Abadie and Imbens (2006), it was shown that simple nearest-neighbor matching estimators include a conditional bias term that converges to zero at a rate that may be slower than N -super-1/2. As a result, matching estimators are not N -super-1/2-consistent in general. In this article, we propose a bias correction that renders matching estimators N -super-1/2-consistent and asymptotically normal. To demonstrate the methods proposed in this article, we apply them to the National Supported Work (NSW) data, originally analyzed in Lalonde (1986). We also carry out a small simulation study based on the NSW example. In this simulation study, a simple implementation of the bias-corrected matching estimator performs well compared to both simple matching estimators and to regression estimators in terms of bias, root-mean-squared-error, and coverage rates. Software to compute the estimators proposed in this article is available on the authors' web pages (http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/imbens/software.html) and documented in Abadie et al. (2003).