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Table 5 Balancing test for the estimation of IFEs a and common support b

From: Short-term training programs for immigrants in the German welfare system: do effects differ from natives and why?

 

p >.1

p >.05

p >.01

#

CS

Aptitude tests

50

53

57

57

429/448

Job search training

63

64

68

69

235/270

Skill provision

43

44

46

47

233/244

Combined programs

44

46

48

50

333/360

  1. aFigures denote number of regressors for which the balancing test was passed on the respective significance level indicated by column. The number of regressors included in the respective propensity score specification is presented in column #.
  2. bColumn CS displays the fraction of treated immigrants satisfying the common support condition on all treated immigrants in the respective sample. On support are those immigrants, whose propensity score is not smaller than the smallest and not larger than the largest propensity score in the respective group of treated native Germans. Treated immigrants, who are off support, are not used in the decomposition analysis.