Caliper Synthetic Matching: Generalized Radius Matching with Local Synthetic Controls
卡尺合成匹配:结合局部合成控制的广义半径匹配
Matching promises transparent causal inferences for observational data, making it an intuitive approach for many applications. In practice, however, standard matching methods often perform poorly compared to modern approaches such as response-surface modeling and optimizing balancing weights. We propose Caliper Synthetic Matching (CSM) to address these challenges while preserving simple and transparent matches and match diagnostics. CSM extends Coarsened Exact Matching by…