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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Urban Econ. 2010 Oct 22;69(3):253–272. doi: 10.1016/j.jue.2010.09.006

Table B2.

First-stage regressions.

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
Share small houses with water 1991 ln # urban HHs 1991 Avg. educ. in locality 1991 Share HHs rural in locality 1991 ln # low educ. HHs 1991 ln # high educ. HHs 1991 ln density 1991
ln land area 1991 −0.019
(0.011)
0.349***
(0.059)
0.079**
(0.030)
0.021***
(0.008)
Illiteracy rate in locality 1970 −0.007***
(0.001)
−0.074***
(0.008)
−0.077***
(0.007)
0.004***
(0.001)
−0.044***
(0.007)
−0.072***
(0.008)
−0.089***
(0.010)
Illiteracy rate in rest of metro area 1970 −0.025
(0.016)
−0.007
(0.132)
0.163
(0.120)
0.017
(0.012)
−0.108
(0.109)
−0.069
(0.123)
0.090
(0.168)
Share anti-military vote 1982 national elections 0.158
(0.099)
2.068***
(0.455)
0.046
(0.272)
−0.184***
(0.061)
1.947***
(0.374)
2.032***
(0.427)
2.040***
(0.615)
Manufacturing-service ratio, rest of metro 1970 −0.136
(0.293)
2.724**
(1.101)
−0.284
(1.345)
−0.056
(0.080)
3.565***
(1.207)
3.329***
(1.233)
1.476
(1.063)
Manu-serv ratio rest of metro* ln dist to S.P. 1970 0.015
(0.054)
−0.446**
(0.206)
0.136
(0.243)
0.015
(0.015)
−0.610**
(0.231)
−0.538**
(0.235)
−0.230
(0.197)
Illiteracy rate rest of metro* ln dist to S.P. 1970 0.002
(0.002)
−0.012
(0.017)
−0.029*
(0.016)
−0.001
(0.002)
−0.001
(0.014)
−0.009
(0.016)
−0.017
(0.021)
ln # urban HHs rest of metro area 1970 −0.090**
(0.037)
−0.946**
(0.388)
−0.282**
(0.136)
0.033
(0.029)
−1.554***
(0.362)
−1.702***
(0.378)
0.345
(0.348)
Share HHs rural in rest of metro area 1970 −0.042
(0.169)
1.719
(1.753)
2.329**
(0.993)
−0.370**
(0.154)
0.198
(1.447)
0.249
(1.535)
3.905*
(2.082)
Share area porous geology −0.493**
(0.237)
−0.634
(1.437)
−0.712
(0.969)
−0.245
(0.209)
−0.552
(1.582)
−1.227
(1.473)
−0.244
(1.582)
Mean annual insolation −0.099
(0.203)
0.151
(1.008)
0.326
(0.736)
−0.224
(0.164)
0.697
(1.108)
0.280
(1.193)
−0.633
(1.492)
Std dev of annual insolation 0.113
(0.458)
6.683
(5.512)
4.108***
(1.237)
−1.180**
(0.534)
6.450
(4.878)
6.888
(4.781)
4.869
(6.728)
Share porous geology* mean insolation 0.336***
(0.108)
0.249
(0.710)
0.368
(0.536)
0.143
(0.117)
0.180
(0.752)
0.613
(0.716)
0.057
(0.867)
Share porous geology* std dev of insolation −0.591***
(0.187)
−1.298
(1.191)
−1.045
(1.027)
0.066
(0.174)
−1.156
(1.373)
−1.686
(1.306)
−1.015
(1.617)
N [54 metro areas] 327 327 327 327 327 327 327
R2 0.29 0.67 0.72 0.39 0.57 0.65 0.50
F-statistic 14.96 125.32 75.97 15.89 58.35 102.51 49.99

Notes: Robust standard errors, clustered at the metro area level, reported in parentheses.

*

Significant at 10% level.

**

Significant at 5% level.

***

Significant at 1% level.