Table 3 Balancing test results.
From: Impact of informal institutions on youth agribusiness participation in Southern Benin
5-to-1 nearest-neighbour matching | Kernel matching | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Bias reduction (%) | t test (p value) | Mean | Bias reduction (%) | t test (p value) | |||
Treated | Untreated | Treated | Untreated | |||||
Age (Continuous) | 26.67 | 26.609 | 79.7 | 0.14 (0.892) | 26.67 | 26.58 | 71.7 | 0.19 (0.848) |
Gender (1 = male) | 0.701 | 0.738 | 69.3 | − 0.77 (0.441) | 0.701 | 0.712 | 91.1 | − 0.22 (0.826) |
Marital status (1 = married) | 0.519 | 0.510 | 73.3 | 0.17 (0.867) | 0.519 | 0.518 | 98.4 | 0.01 (0.992) |
Location (1 = urban) | 0.729 | 0.742 | 85.7 | − 0.29 (0.776) | 0.729 | 0.736 | 92.5 | − 0.15 (0.882) |
Education (ordinal) | 3.734 | 3.833 | 77.3 | − 0.61 (0.541) | 3.734 | 3.772 | 91.2 | − 0.23 (0.815) |
Father’s educational level (ordinal) | 2.419 | 2.443 | 87.8 | − 0.15 (0.883) | 2.419 | 2.426 | 96.4 | − 0.04 (0.965) |
Father’s income(interval) | 3.232 | 3.240 | − 6.3 | − 0.07 (0.942) | 3.232 | 3.240 | − 156.6 | − 0.17 (0.862) |
Income (interval) | 2.591 | 2.561 | 81.3 | 0.30 (0.764) | 2.591 | 2.561 | 66.8 | 0.54 (0.590) |
Formal institutions (1 = good judiciary system) | 0.458 | 0.477 | 87.4 | − 0.36 (0.721) | 0.458 | 0.477 | 94.8 | − 0.15 (0.883) |