Table 8 Estimated results of potential mechanisms of Internet use on technical efficiency.

From: Internet use and technical efficiency of grain production in China: a bias-corrected stochastic frontier model

 

Financial constraints

Social capital

Mechanized farming

ATT

T-stat

ATT

T-stat

ATT

T-stat

Nearest neighbor matching

0.080***

2.68

1.722***

3.25

0.107***

3.47

Radius matching

0.091***

3.05

1.611***

2.98

0.101***

3.25

Kernel matching

0.082***

2.90

1.731***

3.51

0.107***

3.70

Mean

0.084

 

1.688

 

0.105

 
  1. Note: *** represents statistical significance at the 1% level.
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