Covariates distributions balancing for continuous treatment

Qingshan Jiang, Li Xu and Can Huang

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 217, issue C

Abstract: We define a different weighted sample distance covariance and incorporate it into a weighting method optimizing covariates balancing with continuous treatment. The balancing weights are identified with the assistance of the weighted sample energy distance.

Keywords: Causal inference; Continuous treatment; Sample distance covariance; Covariates distributions balancing; Balancing weights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110644

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