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In this paper, we review propensity score (PS) methods developed in high-dimensional settings and broadly group them into model-based methods that extend models for prediction to causal inference and balance-based methods that combine covariate balancing constraints. We conducted systematic simulation experiments to evaluate these two types of methods, and studied whether the use of balancing constraints further improved estimation performance. Our comparison methods were post-double-selection (PDS), double-index PS (DiPS), outcome-adaptive LASSO (OAL), group LASSO and doubly robust estimation (GLiDeR), high-dimensional covariate balancing PS (hdCBPS), regularized calibrated estimators (RCAL) and approximate residual balancing method (balanceHD). For the four model-based methods, simulation studies showed that GLiDeR was the most stable approach, with high estimation accuracy and precision, followed by PDS, OAL and DiPS. For balance-based methods, hdCBPS performed similarly to GLiDeR in terms of accuracy, and outperformed balanceHD and RCAL. These findings imply that PS methods do not benefit appreciably from covariate balancing constraints in high-dimensional settings. 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