A Systematic Review of Propensity Score Methods in the Social Sciences

Thoemmes, Felix; Kim, Eun Sook

doi:10.1080/00273171.2011.540475

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“…However, when using observational data it is never entirely clear whether observed changes in the outcome can be attributed to the treatment (e.g., a life transition) or whether they have been caused by confounding variables that have not been controlled for. Propensity score matching allows dealing with this problem by adapting observational data in a way that approximates the situation of a randomized controlled experiment (Rosenbaum & Rubin, 1983;Thoemmes & Kim, 2011). More precisely, propensity score matching removes selection effects in the composition of the treatment versus control group ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND SELF-ESTEEM DEVELOPMENT 13 (e.g., participants who did versus did not experience a life transition).…”

Section: Methodological Problems In Research On Socialization Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transitions in romantic relationships and development of self-esteem.

Luciano

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2017

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

114

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Research suggests that self-esteem increases during late adolescence and young adulthood, but that there is large interindividual variability in this development. However, little is known about the factors accounting for these findings. Using propensity score matching, we tested whether important transitions in the domain of romantic relationships (i.e., beginning a relationship, marrying, and breaking up) explain why individuals differ in the particular selfesteem trajectory they follow. Data came from a longitudinal German study with a large sample of three nationally representative cohorts of late adolescents and young adults (total N = 9,069).The analyses were based on four assessments across a three-year period. Using matched samples, the results showed that beginning a relationship increased self-esteem and that the increase persisted when the relationship held at least for one year. Experiencing a relationship break-up decreased self-esteem, but the effect disappeared after one year, even if the participant stayed single. Marrying did not influence self-esteem. Additionally, we tested for selection effects of self-esteem on the later occurrence of relationship transitions. High self-esteem predicted the beginning of a relationship and low self-esteem predicted relationship break-up. All findings held across gender, age, and migration background. Furthermore, relationship quality mediated the effect of self-esteem on relationship break-up and the effect of beginning a longer vs. a short relationship on self-esteem. The findings have significant implications because they show that self-esteem influences whether important transitions occur in the relationship domain and that, in turn, experiencing these transitions influences the further development of self-esteem.Keywords: self-esteem development, life transitions, romantic relationships, propensity score matching, longitudinal ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND SELF-ESTEEM DEVELOPMENT 3 Transitions in Romantic Relationships and Development of Self-EsteemIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development of self-esteem.Research has shown that self-esteem-which is defined as "an individual's subjective evaluation of her or his worth as a person" (Donnellan, Trzesniewski, & Robins, 2011, p.718)-typically increases during late adolescence and young adulthood, but that individuals differ substantially in the particular self-esteem trajectory they follow (e.g., Orth & Robins, 2014;Trzesniewski, Donnellan, & Robins, 2013). However, surprisingly little is known about the factors that shape self-esteem development. Although many researchers assume that events occurring in a person's life such as establishing a romantic relationship or being promoted have the potential to affect a person's level of self-esteem, only few studies have actually tested whether important life events and life transitions influence self-esteem (see Orth & Luciano, 2015). Thus, there is a need for a better understanding of the factors that account for individual differenc...

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Section: Methodological Problems In Research On Socialization Effectsmentioning

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Transitions in romantic relationships and development of self-esteem.

Luciano

Orth

2017

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

114

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“…In this study, one-to-many matching was used. Oneto-many matching was one of the commonly used matching methods after one-to-one matching (Thoemmes & Kim, 2011) (e.g., Capraro, Capraro, Morgan, Scheurich et al, 2015). The advantage of one-to-many matching was to increase statistical power compared to one-to-one matching (Shadish & Steiner, 2010).…”

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“…Therefore, in this kind of situation there is a need to assign a control and an intervention group. Propensity score analysis is one method to aid researchers in assigning groups (Shadish & Steiner, 2010;Thoemmes & Kim, 2011). Propensity score matching is the probability of the participant to be assigned to the treatment condition according to the set of observed covariates that are measured before the intervention (Rosenbaum & Rubin, 1983).…”

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The Effect Of T-STEM Designation On Charter Schools: A Longitudinal Examination Of Students’ Mathematics Achievement

Oner¹,

Capraro²,

Capraro³

2016

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STEM interested students and graduates shape the future of a country. However, in the U.S., the number of STEM graduates was not sufficient; therefore, to increase this number, STEM school designation started. The number of STEM schools has been increasing and Texas was one of the states showing growth over time. STEM schools in Texas (T-STEM) were converted from different schools by specific procedures. The highest number of T-STEM conversion was from charter schools. The effectiveness of T-STEM charter schools compared to regular charter schools (non-T-STEM charter) was worth to examine because the number of T-STEM schools converted from charter schools was noteworthy. Moreover, the most important goal of T-STEM schools was to improve students' STEM achievement. In this study, to investigate the effectiveness of T-STEM charter schools, students' mathematics achievement over three years (through high school) was examined. There were 1481 participants in the study. To have comparable two groups, propensity score matching was used. After matching, hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze students' mathematics achievement longitudinally considering student variables. The findings showed that T-STEM charter schools were effective to increase one minority group's (i.e. Hispanic students) mathematics achievement over time.

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“…Although our sample appears to be small in comparison to large scale surveys that have employed this method, others have shown that matching reduces bias substantially even in small samples (e.g., Gu & Rosenbaum, 1992 use 50 units in each, treatment and control group, see also Rubin, 1979). We employed 1:1 matching using the nearest neighbor method, which is the most often used matching procedure (Thoemmes & Kim, 2011). We used a caliper of .25 as suggested by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983) to prevent matching of highly dissimilar observations.…”

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Ownership mode, cultural distance, and the extent of parent firms’ strategic control over subsidiaries in the PRC

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Previous studies often associated a specific type of ownership mode with the extent of control a parent firm may have over (strategic) decision-making in a foreign subsidiary, suggesting that parent firms should have higher control over wholly-owned subsidiaries (WoS) than international joint ventures (IJVs). Building on principal agent theory, we argue that in the Chinese context higher ownership levels do not necessarily have a positive effect on the extent of control over the foreign subsidiary. We further argue that cultural distance between the parent firm and the subsidiary moderates this relationship. We test our hypotheses using data from a sample of 156 foreign subsidiaries in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and find strong support for our arguments. Our findings show that in WoS parent firms reduce their extent of control, while in IJVs parent firms increase their extent of control. Moreover, we find that extent of control over WoS (IJVs) declines (increases) when cultural distance increases. Our results have significant theoretical implications for international business (IB) research as they challenge existing views with regard to the relationship between ownership mode and control as well as the moderating effect of cultural distance.

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A Systematic Review of Propensity Score Methods in the Social Sciences

Cited by 470 publications

References 138 publications

Transitions in romantic relationships and development of self-esteem.

Transitions in romantic relationships and development of self-esteem.

The Effect Of T-STEM Designation On Charter Schools: A Longitudinal Examination Of Students’ Mathematics Achievement

Ownership mode, cultural distance, and the extent of parent firms’ strategic control over subsidiaries in the PRC

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