Table 6 Alternative measure of exposure to Craigslist
From: The impact of Craigslist’s entry on competing employment websites
Sample | Unbalanced panel of employment websites (2005/06–2007/08) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dependent variable | Number of visitors (in 100,000) in a month | Number of page views per visitor per visit | Fee for a day of job posting ($) | Fee for a month of access to CVs ($) | Fee for a day of CV posting ($) | 1 if discount offered to employers | 1 if discount offered to job searchers | 1 if bundling of CV access and job posting offered |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | |
Specification: national websites compete with Craigslist | ||||||||
# of cities with Craigslist’s presence | −2.100 | −0.001 | −0.000 | 0.247 | −0.000 | 0.000 | −0.000 | 0.000 |
(0.050)*** | (0.217) | (0.001) | (0.692) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | |
Specification: national websites do not compete with Craigslist | ||||||||
# of cities with Craigslist’s presence | −8.683 | −7.398 | 0.067 | 7.583 | 0.000 | 0.152 | 0.003 | −0.037 |
(0.066)*** | (3.598)* | (0.158) | (31.174) | (0.001) | (0.135) | (0.004) | (0.047) | |
Controls: website FE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Controls: year FE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Controls: website attributes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Controls: market attributes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mean of dependent variable | 11.504 | 22.072 | 3.363 | 263.992 | 0.003 | 0.440 | 0.027 | 0.314 |
Observations | 66 | 126 | 180 | 82 | 184 | 116 | 188 | 188 |
Number of websites | 33 | 63 | 90 | 41 | 92 | 58 | 94 | 94 |