Also, I have another query regarding the balancing property. According to the pscore command, the results show that the final number of blocks is 5. However, the detailed output only shows two blocks - 5 and 4
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**************************************************** Algorithm to estimate the propensity score **************************************************** The treatment is dumtui (firstnm) | dumtui | Freq. Percent Cum. ------------+----------------------------------- 0 | 40 7.29 7.29 1 | 509 92.71 100.00 ------------+----------------------------------- Total | 549 100.00 Estimation of the propensity score Iteration 0: log likelihood = -143.27483 Iteration 1: log likelihood = -140.05137 Iteration 2: log likelihood = -140.01568 Iteration 3: log likelihood = -140.01567 Probit regression Number of obs = 549 LR chi2(7) = 6.52 Prob > chi2 = 0.4807 Log likelihood = -140.01567 Pseudo R2 = 0.0227 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ dumtui | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- logfeediff | -.4351585 .3457078 -1.26 0.208 -1.112733 .2424163 meaninc | .0000241 .000032 0.75 0.452 -.0000386 .0000868 engdiff | .7431845 .4173667 1.78 0.075 -.0748392 1.561208 profdiff | .020041 .5687919 0.04 0.972 -1.094771 1.134853 govprop | -.0285287 .5192992 -0.05 0.956 -1.046337 .9892791 propunemp | -.2523839 .6641851 -0.38 0.704 -1.554163 1.049395 propmaleat~d | .0205683 .5769323 0.04 0.972 -1.110198 1.151335 _cons | 4.965179 2.654825 1.87 0.061 -.238183 10.16854 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: the common support option has been selected The region of common support is [.79588694, .99533472] Description of the estimated propensity score in region of common support Estimated propensity score ------------------------------------------------------------- Percentiles Smallest 1% .8346569 .7958869 5% .8778466 .8202823 10% .8917124 .8244704 Obs 549 25% .910725 .830139 Sum of Wgt. 549 50% .9283149 Mean .9271435 Largest Std. Dev. .0288954 75% .9503249 .9760316 90% .9618948 .9777905 Variance .0008349 95% .9658854 .9830645 Skewness -.8160764 99% .9709594 .9953347 Kurtosis 4.133895 ****************************************************** Step 1: Identification of the optimal number of blocks Use option detail if you want more detailed output ****************************************************** The final number of blocks is 5 This number of blocks ensures that the mean propensity score is not different for treated and controls in each blocks ********************************************************** Step 2: Test of balancing property of the propensity score Use option detail if you want more detailed output ********************************************************** The balancing property is satisfied This table shows the inferior bound, the number of treated and the number of controls for each block Inferior | of block | (firstnm) dumtui of pscore | 0 1 | Total -----------+----------------------+---------- .6 | 0 1 | 1 .8 | 40 508 | 548 -----------+----------------------+---------- Total | 40 509 | 549 Note: the common support option has been selected ******************************************* End of the algorithm to estimate the pscore *******************************************
It would be a great help if I could get some clarifications on whether my procedure is correct.
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