"Matching" is a statistical technique used to evaluate the effect of a treatment by comparing the treated and non …-treated units in an observational study. Matching provides an alternative to older estimation methods, such as ordinary least … remarkable increase in computing power since then has made other methods, in particular matching, very easy to implement. …

This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …

partners. We use unique data on Thai microcredit borrowing groups to test for homogeneous matching by project riskiness and … in type of risk exposure than they would be under random matching. The results suggest that group lending is improving …

another, potentially complementary, input fixed. We introduce a class of such reallocations - correlated matching rule - that … includes the status quo allocation, a random allocation, and both the perfect positive and negative assortative matching … pairwise stability concept used in the game theoretic literature on two-sided matching models with transfers. For estimation …

I study a many-to-many, two-sided, transferable utility matching game. Consider data on matches or relationships …

selection and institutional knowledge regarding sources of conditional variation in participation. We employ several matching …