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Published in final edited form as: J Reg Sci. 2014 Oct 7;55(4):560–584. doi: 10.1111/jors.12157

Table 2.

Preliminary Entrepreneurship Results. Dependent variable is the establishment birth rate, 2005. Coefficients with one, two, and three stars are significant at the 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively, using a two-tailed test. See the Table 1 and the data appendix for details on the variables. See Table B in the appendix for full results including for control variables.

Birth Rate, 1998	0.87*** (0.025)	0.7*** (0.038)	0.68*** (0.036)	0.62*** (0.09)
Death Rate, 1998	—	0.23*** (0.039)	0.23*** (0.04)	0.35*** (0.1)
Births × Deaths, 1998	—	0.036** (0.015)	0.01 (0.014)	0.038 (0.026)

N	3072	3072	3072	825
R²	0.78	0.79	0.82	0.94
F-test for non-FEs variables	272	242	90	27.5

Counties	All	All	All	Metro
Fixed Effects	No	No	State	MSA
Full controls	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Regression	OLS	OLS	OLS	OLS