On the Failure of the Bootstrap for Matching Estimators

DOI10.3982/ECTA6474zbMath1153.91752MaRDI QIDQ3548514

Guido W. Imbens, Alberto Abadie

Publication date: 15 December 2008

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrap; matching; average treatment effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

62P05: Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

91B82: Statistical methods; economic indices and measures

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