Table 4 PSM on the effect of WeChat use on social trust levels.

From: The impact of mobile social network sites on social trust: evidence from the China

Estimation methods

ATT

Std. Err.

t-value

NM

0.137***

0.038

3.62

RM

0.135***

0.031

4.37

KM

0.140***

0.027

5.12

LM

0.138***

0.026

5.41

  1. ***p < 0.001. Control variables are included in all models. This table reports average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) using nearest neighbor matching (NM), radius matching (RM), kernel matching (KM), and local linear matching (LM).