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Table 3 Here we assign municipalities randomly to 62 cities in five successive placebo cases and replicate the last regression (column 5) of the previous tables in each case

From: Commuting times and the mobilisation of skills in emergent cities

Variables

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Log complexity potential

0.003

0.007

0.010

0.004

0.019*

 

(0.009)

(0.008)

(0.010)

(0.008)

(0.010)

Log working age pop 2008

-0.002

-0.004

-0.000

0.000

-0.006

 

(0.006)

(0.006)

(0.007)

(0.004)

(0.006)

Log GDP per capita 2011

0.010

-0.008

0.003

0.005

-0.004

 

(0.010)

(0.007)

(0.019)

(0.009)

(0.016)

Binary oil: one well/1000

0.011

0.012

0.005

-0.004

0.002

 

(0.014)

(0.013)

(0.031)

(0.022)

(0.019)

Govt spending pc

0.030

0.007

0.017

0.019

0.027

 

(0.021)

(0.016)

(0.017)

(0.017)

(0.017)

Sectoral demand

2.152**

0.841

1.496*

1.149*

1.828

 

(0.809)

(0.636)

(0.857)

(0.638)

(1.434)

Formality rate 2008

-0.450*

-0.055

-0.335

-0.145

-0.388

 

(0.250)

(0.223)

(0.275)

(0.203)

(0.409)

Constant

-0.059

0.150

0.023

-0.038

0.172

 

(0.146)

(0.126)

(0.221)

(0.122)

(0.199)

Observations

62

61

61

62

61

R-squared

0.453

0.258

0.310

0.451

0.413

Robust standard errors in parentheses

*** p <0.01, ** p <0.05, * p <0.1

  1. The relevant coefficient is low and not significant