Propensity Score

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Mar 10, 2025

Estimating Generalized Propensity Scores with Survey and Attrition Weighted Data

We extend prior work and show with analytic results that using survey sampling or attrition weights in the GPS estimation stage and the outcome model stage for continuous treatments can result in a more robust estimator than one that does not.
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Jan 21, 2025

CTE-Focused Dual Enrollment: Participation and Outcomes

This study examines participation in North Carolina's CTE Dual Enrollment pathway. It shows that CTE dual enrollment participation was associated with earning more college credits earned in high school, high school graduation and college enrollment.
Research

Jul 1, 2024

Legal Outcomes and Home-Court Advantage: Evidence from the Securities and Exchange Commission's Shift to Administrative Courts

This article examines whether the SEC's authority to move cases into administrative court has led to a home-court advantage due to administrative law judges' relative lack of formal independence.
Research

Jun 26, 2024

Associations Between Prenatal Loss of Control Eating and Cardiovascular Health During Pregnancy

Among pregnant individuals with pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity, loss of control (LOC) over eating was associated with poorer cardiovascular health (CVH) even after controlling for known risk factors for poor CVH.
Research

Apr 17, 2024

A Tutorial for Propensity Score Weighting for Moderation Analysis With Categorical Variables: An Application Examining Smoking Disparities Among Sexual Minority Adults

To provide step-by-step guidance and STATA and R code for using propensity score (PS) weighting to estimate moderation effects with categorical variables.
Research

Mar 6, 2024

Are Disparities in Mental Health Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries Lower in Managed Care?

Medicaid managed care has not improved the inequitable allocation of mental health care across racial and ethnic groups. Attention to monitoring of racial and ethnic differences in use of mental health care in Medicaid managed care is warranted.
Research

Jun 24, 2022

Volunteer Recovery Support for Adolescents: Using Propensity Score Based Methods to Understand Dosage Effects Within a Randomized Controlled Trial

The study used statistical methods designed to approximate RCTs when comparing more than two nonequivalent groups that include an assessment of the potential impact of omitted variables in order to address potential dosage effects for a commonly used evidence based substance use treatment program for adolescents.
Research

Jun 24, 2022

Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation

We explore the potential benefit of using higher-order moments in the balancing conditions for covariate-balancing propensity scores and entropy balance.
Research

Jun 24, 2022

A Tutorial Comparing Different Covariate Balancing Methods with an Application Evaluating the Causal Effects of Substance Use Treatment Programs for Adolescents

A state-of-the-art tutorial on how best to implement propensity score weighting analyses.
Tool

May 14, 2021

Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny Application for Time-Varying Treatments

This tutorial demonstrates the use of the Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups Shiny application for time-varying treatments -- for cases when the time-varying treatment or exposure is binary -- using an illustrative example.
Research

Mar 10, 2021

Brief Tutorial for twangContinuous

This document provides a brief tutorial on using the twangContinous package to estimate causal effects for continuous exposure variables using generalized propensity scores estimated via generalized boosted models.
Tool

Dec 29, 2020

Quantifying the Bias Due to Observed Individual Confounders in Causal Treatment Effect Estimates: A Tutorial for the Selection Bias Decomposition (SBdecomp) Package

In this tool, the authors explain the methodology behind the primary function of the selection bias decomposition (SBdecomp) package; describe its features, syntax and how to implement the function; and illustrate its use with an example.

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Estimating Generalized Propensity Scores with Survey and Attrition Weighted Data

CTE-Focused Dual Enrollment: Participation and Outcomes

Legal Outcomes and Home-Court Advantage: Evidence from the Securities and Exchange Commission's Shift to Administrative Courts

Associations Between Prenatal Loss of Control Eating and Cardiovascular Health During Pregnancy

A Tutorial for Propensity Score Weighting for Moderation Analysis With Categorical Variables: An Application Examining Smoking Disparities Among Sexual Minority Adults

Are Disparities in Mental Health Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries Lower in Managed Care?

Volunteer Recovery Support for Adolescents: Using Propensity Score Based Methods to Understand Dosage Effects Within a Randomized Controlled Trial

Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation

A Tutorial Comparing Different Covariate Balancing Methods with an Application Evaluating the Causal Effects of Substance Use Treatment Programs for Adolescents

Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny Application for Time-Varying Treatments

Brief Tutorial for twangContinuous

Quantifying the Bias Due to Observed Individual Confounders in Causal Treatment Effect Estimates: A Tutorial for the Selection Bias Decomposition (SBdecomp) Package

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Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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Estimating Generalized Propensity Scores with Survey and Attrition Weighted Data

CTE-Focused Dual Enrollment: Participation and Outcomes

Legal Outcomes and Home-Court Advantage: Evidence from the Securities and Exchange Commission's Shift to Administrative Courts

Associations Between Prenatal Loss of Control Eating and Cardiovascular Health During Pregnancy

A Tutorial for Propensity Score Weighting for Moderation Analysis With Categorical Variables: An Application Examining Smoking Disparities Among Sexual Minority Adults

Are Disparities in Mental Health Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries Lower in Managed Care?

Volunteer Recovery Support for Adolescents: Using Propensity Score Based Methods to Understand Dosage Effects Within a Randomized Controlled Trial

Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation

A Tutorial Comparing Different Covariate Balancing Methods with an Application Evaluating the Causal Effects of Substance Use Treatment Programs for Adolescents

Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny Application for Time-Varying Treatments

Brief Tutorial for twangContinuous

Quantifying the Bias Due to Observed Individual Confounders in Causal Treatment Effect Estimates: A Tutorial for the Selection Bias Decomposition (SBdecomp) Package

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