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American Economic Review Vol. 101 No. 3 2011

Oaxaca-Blinder as a Reweighting Estimator

Patrick Kline

University of California–Berkeley, 508-1 Evans Hall #3880, Berkeley, CA 94720-3880.

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.

DOI
10.1257/aer.101.3.532
Volume
101
Issue
3
Pages
532-537
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref openalex

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