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Matching Theory

Matching Theory is a branch of game theory that studies the formation of pairwise associations among agents in a market or system, distinguished by its focus on stability and incentive compatibility in two-sided matching mechanisms.

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SOME PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING

Marco Caliendo, Sabine Kopeinig · Journal of Economic Surveys · 2008 · 6.2K citations

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Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme

James J. Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura, Petra Todd · The Review of Economic Studies · 1997 · 5.5K citations

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Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator

James J. Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura, Petra Todd · The Review of Economic Studies · 1998 · 3.8K citations

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Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching

Stefano M. Iacus, Gary King, Giuseppe Porro · Political Analysis · 2011 · 3.5K citations · Full text

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Discussion of Probability Relations between Separated Systems

Erwin Schrödinger · Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 1935 · 3.1K citations

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  1. AE
    Alvin E. Roth

    Stanford University, United States

    37 publications · 8.3K citations

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  2. FK
    Fuhito Kojima

    Stanford University, United States

    32 publications · 2.4K citations

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  3. RW
    Robert W. Irving

    University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

    21 publications · 2.4K citations

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  4. DF
    David F. Manlove

    University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

    20 publications · 970 citations

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  5. EC
    Eddie Cheng

    Oakland University, United States

    19 publications · 693 citations

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    53 h-index

    195 publications

    13.1K citations

  2. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    40 h-index

    134 publications

    18.8K citations

  3. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    39 h-index

    105 publications

    6.6K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    38 h-index

    90 publications

    9.5K citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    38 h-index

    79 publications

    11.8K citations

  6. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    36 h-index

    63 publications

    17.4K citations

  7. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    35 h-index

    79 publications

    14.3K citations

  8. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    34 h-index

    86 publications

    6.5K citations

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  1. American Economic Review

    63 publications · 8.4K citations

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 200 publications · 7.4K citations

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  3. Journal of Economic Theory

    JET · 66 publications · 4.7K citations

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  4. Econometrica

    45 publications · 13.3K citations

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  5. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

    61 publications · 8.2K citations

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