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Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 5 Estimate impacts of informal institutions on youth participation in the agribusiness sector—PSM results—alternative measure.

From: Impact of informal institutions on youth agribusiness participation in Southern Benin

 

Kernel matching estimator

5-to-1 nearest-neighbour matching estimator

(1)

(2)

Average treatment effect on the treated (ATT)

0.498***

(0.044)

0.475***

(0.043)

Number of observations (treated)

180

189

Number of observations (untreated)

189

180

Number of observations (total)

369

369

  1. Numbers in parentheses are standard errors
  2. *, **, and *** indicate significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively
  3. The binary treatment variable is obtained from the score of informal institutions computed from the Likert-scale values of institutional attributes using the formula score = (observed score-minimum score)/(maximum score-minimum score)
  4. The sample size drops from 478 to 369 because observations off the common support are excluded
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