Matching methods

Pauline Givord (1, 2)

1 Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)
2 LIEPP - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'évaluation des politiques publiques (Sciences Po)

Matching is a quantitative method for ex-post evaluation in which, in the absence of direct experimentation, a counterfactual situation is reconstructed by comparing the situations of beneficiaries of an intervention with those of non-beneficiaries with very similar characteristics. This method is particularly useful for evaluating the impact of a programme on a whole population, when sufficiently precise data exist to compare beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries.

Mots clés: Quantitative method; ex post evaluation; causal effect; Propensity score; common support

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Science politique

Pauline Givord. Matching methods. LIEPP Methods Brief n°18, 2023. ⟨hal-04106880⟩