Finally, Table 4 shows the impact of PS adjustments on racial/ethnic disparities in dependence symptom and consequence counts. Based on the above, PS weighting was used to weight Black to White (and separately Latino to White) male drinkers on income, education, employment, racial/ethnic stigma, unfair treatment, age, marital status, and (for Latinos only) neighborhood SES; we also weighted on survey year. Weighting successfully balanced all target variables across racial/ethnic groups: After weighting, none of the candidate mediators differed across racial/ethnic groups for either the total sample or heavy drinking subgroups (all p’s > 0.10).
