.... Design/methodology/approach This study employs the propensity score matching (PSM) method to examine inequality in pay between female and male earners sharing identical characteristics. The analysis is conducted for both the full sample and various characteristic-based subsamples. This procedure...

.... Findings Step 1 of propensity score matching (PSM) with probit regression shows that land value, income, education, gender of household head and geographical distance to the nearest credit institution affect the degree of credit rationing facing rice farmers. Step 2 of PSM estimator identifies...

... replication to examine the sensitivity of the impact estimates to different sets of covariates and bandwidth used in the propensity score (PS) matching. One of the key issues in the propensity score-matching method is to select covariates and bandwidth and there are no standard criteria for this selection...