American Economic Review
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Oaxaca-Blinder as a Reweighting Estimator
American Economic Review
vol. 101,
no. 3, May 2011
(pp. 532–37)
Abstract
The classic regression based estimator of counterfactual means studied by Ronald Oaxaca (1973) and Alan Blinder (1973) is shown to constitute a propensity score reweighting estimator based upon a linear model for the conditional odds of being treated.Citation
Kline, Patrick. 2011. "Oaxaca-Blinder as a Reweighting Estimator." American Economic Review, 101 (3): 532–37. DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.3.532Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- C21 Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions