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Table 6 Balance of covariate accounting for the GPS: t-statistics for equality of means

From: Impacts of woody invasive alien plant species on rural livelihood: Generalized propensity score evidence from Prosopis spp. invasion in Afar Region in Ethiopia

Covariate	Unadjusted			GPS-adjusted
Covariate	[0.4, 27]	[27, 41]	[41, 71]	[0.4, 27]	[27, 41]	[41, 71]
TLU	− 2.08	1.03	1.31	− 2.35	.81	1.04
HHsize	0.05	− 0.45	0.41	0.61	− 0.38	0.33
Sex	− 1.52	1.11	− 1.38	− 1.34	1.62	− 1.51
Age	0.46	− 1.28	1.35	0.70	− 0.92	0.99
Edu	1.05	− 0.61	− 0.53	1.33	− 0.93	− 0.22
Participation	− 2.49	2.52	0.65	− 1.25	2.17	0.35
Nrm_expert	− 1.06	1.29	− 0.33	− 1.00	1.57	− 0.09
Dist_mkt	− 0.19	2.01	− 1.32	0.21	1.86	− 0.71
Dist_school	− 2.44	0.62	−1.18	− 1.54	− 0.14	− 1.38
Dist_health	− 1.46	2.55	− 0.81	− 0.94	1.81	− 0.68
Dist_watrp	− 1.74	0.53	1.11	− 0.58	0.02	0.23
NFIncm	0.36	− 0.84	0.62	0.24	− 1.23	1.14
Aid	− 0.73	1.61	− 0.78	− 0.64	1.29	− 1.13
Credit	− 3.28	1.98	− 0.25	− 0.18	0.12	− 0.28
HHExp	− 1.16	0.38	0.19	− 1.26	0.02	0.94
HHExp square	− 0.18	− 0.19	0.34	− 0.36	− 0.61	1.02
HHExp cube	0.33	− 0.57	0.36	0.25	− 0.95	0.91
Age square	0.56	− 1.38	1.44	0.73	− 1.02	1.14
Age cube	0.66	− 1.48	1.52	0.74	− 1.12	1.28
TLU square	− 1.09	0.72	0.91	− 1.18	0.56	0.84
TLU cube	− 0.63	0.54	0.61	− 0.65	0.46	0.59
HHsize square	0.31	− 0.54	0.43	0.77	− 0.56	0.36
HHsize cube	0.52	− 0.51	0.29	0.86	− 0.59	0.26
Edu square	0.76	− 0.38	− 0.31	1.00	− 0.81	0.15
Edu cube	0.65	− 0.53	0.04	0.84	− 0.94	0.45
Dist_mkt square	0.28	2.13	− 1.69	0.75	2.00	− 0.16
Dist_mkt cube	0.67	1.96	− 1.89	1.19	1.03	− 0.37
Dist_watrp square	− 0.31	0.71	− 0.02	− 0.20	1.00	1.45
Dist_watrp cube	0.17	0.54	− 0.33	− 0.15	1.14	1.17

Source: own computation results based on survey data, 2016. Italicized numbers indicate significance at the 5% level

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