Research Article

Digital Transformation and ESG Performance: A Quasinatural Experiment Based on China’s Environmental Protection Law

Table 12

2SLS and GMM estimation.

2SLSGMM
First stageSecond stage
(1)
DT
(2)
ESG
(3)
ESG

0.361 (23.230)0.635 (43.610)
DT0.290 (2.410)0.210 (4.000)
ControlYesYesYes
Year fixYesYesYes
Industry fixYesYesYes
23,40923,40923,520
AR (1)0.000
AR (2)0.023
Hansen1.000
Kleibergen-Paap rk LM statistic159.540
Cragg-Donald Wald statistic5231.088
Kleibergen-Paap rk Wald statistic541.079

Notes: -statistics in parentheses. ; ; .