How sensitive are matching estimates of active labor market policy effects to typically unobserved confounders?

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 7 Estimated Effects using other Extended Specifications

	Regular employment after 36 months			Real monthly earnings after 36 months
	Std.	Ext.	Diff.	Std.	Ext.	Diff.
No job search variables	0.063\(^{***}\)	0.056\(^{***}\)	0.007	118\(^{***}\)	105\(^{***}\)	13
No job search variables	(0.016)	(0.016)	(0.005)	(29)	(29)	(8)
No inter-generational info	0.063\(^{***}\)	0.057\(^{***}\)	0.005	118\(^{***}\)	110\(^{***}\)	8
No inter-generational info	(0.016)	(0.016)	(0.005)	(29)	(29)	(9)
Control variables
Typically observed covariates	\(\checkmark\)	\(\checkmark\)		\(\checkmark\)	\(\checkmark\)
Typically unobserved covariates		\(\checkmark\)			\(\checkmark\)

This table shows estimated ATTs. Standard errors are obtained via bootstrapping with 999 replications. Statistical significance based on the normal approximation on the 10/5/1% level is indicated by \(^{*}/^{**}/^{***}\)