Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
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IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
No 2010:13: Bootstrap inference for K-nearest neighbour matching estimators
Xavier de Luna (), Per Johansson () and Sara Sjöstedt-de Luna ()
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Xavier de Luna: Umeå University, Postal: SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
Per Johansson: IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Postal: Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Sara Sjöstedt-de Luna: Umeå University, Postal: SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
Abstract: Abadie and Imbens (2008, Econometrica) showed that classical bootstrap schemes fail to provide correct inference for K-nearest neighbour (KNN) matching estimators of average causal effects. This is an interesting result showing that bootstrap should not be applied without theoretical justification. In this paper, we present two resampling schemes, which we show provide valid inference for KNN matching estimators. We resample "estimated individual causal effects" (EICE), i.e. the difference in outcome between matched pairs, instead of the original data. Moreover, by taking differences in EICEs ordered with respect to the matching covariate, we obtain a bootstrap scheme valid also with heterogeneous causal effects where mild assumptions on the heterogeneity are imposed. We provide proofs of the validity of the proposed resampling based inferences. A simulation study illustrates finite sample properties.
Keywords: Block bootstrap; subsampling; average causal/treatment effect
24 pages, November 19, 2010
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