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From | s <s.afcha@ub.edu> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Logarithmic transformation in psm results |
Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:54:56 +0100 |
Dear statalisters,I'm estimating propensity score matching (with psmatch2 routine) for a sample of firms participating in a program. My outcome variable (turnover of the firm) is expressed in logarithm, and the results are similar to these:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sample Treated Controls Difference S.E. T-stat
----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Unmatched | 13.2005389 8.90516337 4.29537557 .323484337 13.28 ATT | 12.9789829 12.284779 .694203895 .303516206 2.29
----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How can I transform the results in order to interpret this results in terms of the original values. My doubt arise mainly because when I estimate the ATT using the original variable expressed in monetary units the value corresponding to treated and controls not coincide with the transformed values
of the results in logarithms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sample Treated Controls Difference S.E. T-stat
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Unmatched | 3940905.5 642598.305 3298307.2 266059.508 12.40 ATT | 2687231.69 2091249.89 595981.797 631105.497 0.94
----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance for your help, Sergio * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/