I have used pscore and psmatch2 in order to evaluate a given treatment on households' consumption. Before estimating the effect with psmatch2 I took the log to the consumption variable. And I got the following result:
Variable Sample Treated Controls Difference S.E. T-stat
Sample Treated Controls Difference S.E. T-stat
Unmatched 5.96657475 6.11893931 -.152364559 .030307387 -5.03
ATT 5.96478846 6.04441313 -.079624672 .037496237 -2.12
As far as I can see the difference is significant on a 95% level, but how do I interpret the coefficient of the treatment when I have used log consumption as the dependent variable. Will this mean that the treatment lowers the consumption by 8% or does that not make any sense? Perhaps it is too basic, but I really hope for an answer.
Cheers,
Kristian
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