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Data, 2019 We sought to quantify the effectiveness of a gifted and talented (GT) program, as was provided to university students who demonstrated a talent for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in China.
Shifang Tang, Fuhui Tong, Xiuhong Lu
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Investigating the causal relationship between employment and informal caregiving of the elderly
BMC Research Notes, 2018 Objective Examining the causal relationship between employment and informal caring to date has been impeded in countries like Ireland where there is a lack of suitable panel data and/or variables for instrument construction. This paper employs propensity
Edel Walsh, Aileen Murphy
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Can nutritional label use influence body weight outcomes? [PDF]
Nutritional labeling has been of much interest to policy makers and health advocates due to rising obesity trends. So can nutritional label use really help reduce body weight outcomes?
Andreas Drichoutis +2 more
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ASPECTS OF THE USE OF PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING METHODS IN NEUROSURGERY
Coluna/ColumnaObjective Observational studies and register data provide researchers with ample opportunities to obtain answers to questions that randomized controlled trials cannot answer for organizational or ethical reasons. One of the most common tools for solving
ALEKSANDR V. KRUTKO +4 more
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A PRIMER ON PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING ESTIMATORS [PDF]
Nonparametric matching estimators are frequently applied in evaluation studies. The general idea of the methodology is to determine the impact of treatment on the treated using information from treated and from similar non-treated observations to build a
Katja Vinha
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The wage effects of entering motherhood : a within-firm matching approach [PDF]
"We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching approach where mothers' wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm.
Beblo, Miriam +2 more
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Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance [PDF]
This paper uses administrative data from Missouri to examine the sensitivity of job training program impact estimates based on alternative nonexperimental methods. In addition to simple regression adjustment, we consider Mahalanobis distance matching and
Alexey Gorislavsky +2 more
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Propensity Score Matching Analysis for Alcohol‐Related Liver Disease
Health Science ReportsObjectives This study aims to investigate the impact of comorbidity with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) on the survival rates and incidence of liver cancer in patients with alcohol‐related liver disease (ARLD).
Fangfang Duan +5 more
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Do Instrumental Variables Belong in Propensity Scores? [PDF]
Propensity score matching is a popular way to make causal inferences about a binary treatment in observational data. The validity of these methods depends on which variables are used to predict the propensity score.
Jay Bhattacharya, William B. Vogt
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The first partnership experience and personality development. A propensity score matching study in young adulthood [PDF]
, 2015 Personality development in young adulthood has been associated with the experience of a number of new social roles. However, the causal interpretation of these findings is complicated by the fact that it is not possible to randomize young adults by their
Becker, Michael +3 more
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