How Internet Use Spurs Entrepreneurial Activities? Evidence from China

Table 8

Propensity score matching estimates of the average treatment on treated effect of Internet use on entrepreneurship.

Matching methods	Sample	Treated	Control	ATT	Std (ATT)	t-test(|t|)
The nearest neighbor matching	Unmatched	0.098	0.037	0.061	0.005	12.53^∗∗∗
	Matched	0.098	0.052	0.046	0.011	4.23^∗∗∗
Radius matching	Unmatched	0.098	0.037	0.061	0.004	12.53^∗∗∗
	Matched	0.098	0.058	0.040	0.008	4.78^∗∗∗
Kernel matching	Unmatched	0.098	0.037	0.061	0.004	12.53^∗∗∗
	Matched	0.098	0.065	0.033	0.007	5.01^∗∗∗

Note. Nearest neighbor matching adopts one-to-one matching; radius matching uses all neighbors within a caliper of 0.01; Kernel matching takes a weighted average of all matches within a bandwidth; ^∗, ^∗∗, and ^∗∗∗ represent 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively.