Evaluating place-based job creation programs in Japan

Table 8 The estimation result using alternative methods

Dependent variable	(1)		(2)
		Robust		Robust
	Coef.	Std. err.	Coef.	Std. err.
Workers live in^a	0.148*	0.076	0.044	0.028
Workers work in^b	0.156*	0.081	0.045*	0.026
Workers in
Agriculture	0.240**	0.095	0.111**	0.052
Wholesale, retail trade, and service	0.136*	0.080	0.037	0.026
Manufacturing	0.158	0.096	0.030	0.046
Financial	0.138	0.109	0.008	0.043
Population	0.144*	0.076	0.044	0.030
Households	0.135*	0.075	0.048*	0.026
Observations	678		742

Dependent variables are the change in logged number of workers/people/households. Column (1): this paper estimates the model using the selected control municipalities that are close enough to the treatment municipalities. Column (2): this paper applies the inverse of probability weight. The estimation models for the column (1) and (2) includes all control variables (the lag share of manufacturing, the trend in population density and the unemployment rate in the base year)
** and * indicate significance at the 5 and 10% level, respectively
^aWorkers who live in the treatment/control municipalities
^bWorkers who work in the treatment/control municipalities