Essays about: "Entropy Balancing"

Found 2 essays containing the words Entropy Balancing.

  1. 1. Spillover effects from parental unemployment on children's educational and early labour market outcomes - Evidence from Germany

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Celina Tippmann; [2023]
    Keywords : Intergenerational spillover; Education; Plant closure; Entropy balancing; Socioeconomic Panel;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the intergenerational impact of parental unemployment on children's educational and early labour market outcomes. To mitigate selection bias, the empirical strategy relies on plausibly exogenous job ends and applies entropy balancing. READ MORE

  3. 2. Automation and design in observational causal inference

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

    Author : Mattias Tajik; [2022]
    Keywords : Causal Inference; Genetic Matching; Entropy Balancing; Propensity Score;

    Abstract : The use of automated procedures has recently become popular in the causal inference literature. Naive implementations of automatic procedures stand in contrast to the perspective advocated in Imbens and Rubin's Causal Inference. Imbens and Rubin suggest that researchers should make modelling decisions informed by subjective knowledge. READ MORE