From: The impact of Craigslist’s entry on competing employment websites
Sample | A panel of employment websites (2005/06–2007/08) | |||
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Treatment of national websites | National websites compete with Craigslist | National websites do not compete with Craigslist | ||
Dependent variable | Number of visitors (in 100,000) in a month | Number of page views per visitor per visit | Number of visitors (in 100,000) in a month | Number of page views per visitor per visit |
Measure of exposure | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
Years since Craigslist’s entry | −5.597 | −19.729 | −5.859 | −23.586 |
(0.340)*** | (15.101) | (0.357)*** | (14.079)* | |
Number of job ads on Craigslist (in 1000) | −0.374 | −7.390 | −0.274 | −6.649 |
(0. 008)*** | (1.183)*** | (0.037)*** | (3.343)* | |
Controls: website FE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Controls: year FE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Controls: website attributes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Controls: market attributes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mean of dependent variable | 11.504 | 22.072 | 11.504 | 22.072 |
Observations | 66 | 126 | 66 | 126 |
Number of websites | 33 | 63 | 33 | 63 |