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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Reg Sci. 2014 Oct 7;55(4):560–584. doi: 10.1111/jors.12157

Table 5.

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.

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)
B*D, 1998 0.036** (0.015) 0.01 (0.014) 0.038 (0.026)
Demand Shock, 2000–07 0.007 (0.007) −0.001 (0.006) 0.004 (0.006) −0.001 (0.019)
Emp Growth, 1990–2000 0.007*** (0.002) 0.009*** (0.002) 0.01*** (0.002) 0.012*** (0.003)
Log Employment, 2000 0.11*** (0.029) 0.11*** (0.029) 0.09*** (0.025) 0.05 (0.05)
Log Income, 2000 −0.79*** (0.162) −0.79*** (0.159) −0.57*** (0.14) −0.3 (0.3)
Density, 2000 0.004 (0.004) 0.003 (0.003) −0.004 (0.003) −0.001 (0.005)
HC Share, 2000 0.030** (0.013) 0.032*** (0.012) 0.04*** (0.012) 0.022 (0.028)
Arts Share, 2000 −0.028 (0.078) −0.026 (0.076) 0.035 (0.07) −0.07 (0.12)
BA Share, 2000 −0.012 (0.008) −0.011 (0.007) −0.024*** (0.007) −0.016 (0.018)
Pop Growth, 1950–1960 0.047 (0.060) 0.017 (0.07) −0.1 (0.06) −0.23*** (0.07)
Median Age, 2000 0.016** (0.007) 0.007 (0.007) −0.005 (0.008) −0.005 (0.019)
Amenity Score 0.043*** (0.008) 0.042*** (0.008) 0.024* (0.012) −0.034 (0.031)
Distance to MSA 0.002*** (0.001) 0.003*** (0.001) 0.002*** (0.001) 0.009 (0.007)
Marginal distance to MSA > 250k −0.001 (0.0001) 0 (0.001) 0 (0.000) −0.009 (0.008)
Marginal distance to MSA > 500k 0.002*** (0.001) 0.002*** (0.001) 0 (0.000) −0.001 (0.006)
Marginal distance to MSA > 1M −0.001*** (0.000) −0.001*** (0.000) −0.001** (0.000) 0.005 (0.004)
Constant 6.66*** (1.55) 6.69*** (1.54) 4.89*** (1.37) 3.81 (3.44)

N 3072 3072 3072 825
R2 0.78 0.79 0.82 0.95
F (non-FEs) 272 242 89.9 27.5

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