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What matching method for Propensity Score Matching

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Dear Statalister,

This if my first post so please forgive any etiquette mistakes...

I'm trying to figure what matching method to use for my study.

I'm using Stata/IC 14.0, and the user-written program psmatch2

I have a large dataset (68 000 treated, 1 500 000 untreated). For the characteristics I'm controlling for, there is not much bias (age, gender, geographical distribution, month...).

I would prefer matching without replacement (easier to explain the procedure and calculations to an average audience). When I do that, my untreated group has the exact same characteristics as my treated group, which is nice.

But I still feel it's a shame to loose the information from all these other untreated observations.

I understand psmatch2 cannot perform matching without replacement with multiples neighbors.

Would you rather oversample the untreated group with replacement, or perform a 1:1 matching without replacement ?

Thanks in advance,

Léon-Paul Schwab

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