Re: st: Balancing Property not satisfied

[Lukas Borkowski <570722@soas.ac.uk>]

Vikram,

in the output window of -pscore- (a user-written command, written by Becker and Ichino, 2002) you are provided with information on which covariates are not balanced. It is written just above the dialogue you have quoted.

Best,

Lukas
Becker, S. and A. Ichino (2002): Estimation of average treatment effects based on propensity scores, The Stata Journal 2(4): pp. 358–377.

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Lukas Borkowski
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

M: 570722@soas.ac.uk



On 15.08.2013, at 12:39, vikramfinavker1 <vikramfinavker@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> i am trying to use propensity score matching using Pscore command. However,
> under the test of balancing the out put says 
> 
> "The The balancing property is not satisfied 
> 
> Try a different specification of the propensity score"
> 
> I have tried different covariates but i am not getting a balanced property
> results. Could any one of you please help me go pass this step? i want to
> know what i am doing wrong and how to correct it? if not what i can do to
> solve this problem.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Vikram FInavker
> 
> 
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