Table 2.

Balance Table: Standardized Mean Differences for Subclassification, Weighting and Matching for Imputation 1.

Confounder	Unadjusted	Weighting		Matching		Subclassification Stratum
		ATE	ATT	Nearest Neighbor	Optimal	1	2	3	4	5
Gender (Female)	0.10	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.02	0.07	0.13	0.08	0.06	0.12
Race (Asian)	0.03	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.05	0.08	0.07	0.02	0.06	0.14
Race (Black)	0.53*	0.00	0.01	0.31*	0.32*	0.10	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.07
Race (Hispanic)	0.09	0.04	0.02	0.19	0.13	0.28*	0.18	0.04	0.15	0.09
Race (White)	0.49*	0.03	0.02	0.17	0.20	0.24*	0.12	0.01	0.05	0.07
Child has a disability	0.18	0.00	0.01	0.05	0.03	0.13	0.05	0.04	0.09	0.01
Mother Race (Asian)	0.03	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.01	0.04	0.10
Mother Race (Black)	0.51*	0.01	0.00	0.32*	0.32*	0.11	0.07	0.03	0.00	0.11
Mother Race (Hispanic)	0.08	0.04	0.02	0.18	0.14	0.32*	0.19	0.04	0.15	0.15
Mother Race (white)	0.49*	0.03	0.02	0.17	0.20	0.28*	0.11	0.01	0.08	0.01
Mother was married at child’s birth	0.54*	0.01	0.00	0.15	0.16	0.07	0.10	0.01	0.03	0.07
Mother worked before child entered kindergarten	0.16	0.00	0.02	0.08	0.05	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.02	0.09
Mother education (categorical)	0.30*	0.03	0.02	0.07	0.04	0.27*	0.11	0.00	0.11	0.05
Family type (two parent)	0.45*	0.00	0.00	0.19	0.18	0.01	0.02	0.10	0.04	0.12
Family size	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.11	0.03	0.05	0.06	0.13
Mother employed more 35 hours	0.21*	0.00	0.01	0.08	0.07	0.09	0.05	0.01	0.10	0.16
Mother looking for work	0.16	0.01	0.04	0.06	0.05	0.12	0.07	0.11	0.06	0.16
Mother not in labor force	0.30*	0.01	0.00	0.11	0.08	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.06
Home language (English)	0.07	0.05	0.02	0.19	0.15	0.42*	0.19	0.10	0.12	0.15
Below poverty line	0.41*	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.17	0.12	0.00	0.04
Socio-economic status (SES; categorical)	0.61*	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.03	0.31*	0.12	0.08	0.09	0.04

^*Standardized effect sizes greater than 0.2.