How Internet Use Spurs Entrepreneurial Activities? Evidence from China

Table 2

Internet use and entrepreneurship (benchmark model).

Variable	Dependent variable: entrepreneurship
	(1)			(2)				(3)
Internet use	0.898^∗∗∗	(0.092)		0.825^∗∗∗	(0.093)			0.706^∗∗∗	(0.095)
Sex	0.867^∗∗∗	(0.064)		0.877^∗∗∗		(0.064)		0.570^∗∗∗	(0.085)
Age	0.201^∗∗∗	(0.064)		0.213^∗∗∗		(0.025)		0.216^∗∗∗	(0.026)
Age squared	−0.002^∗∗∗	(0.000)		−0.003^∗∗∗		(0.000)		−0.003^∗∗∗	(0.000)
Registered permanent residence	−0.002	(0.081)		0.045		(0.083)		0.067	(0.082)
Marriage	0.140	(0.114)		0.024		(0.115)		0.034	(0.114)
Education level (ref: illiteracy and primary school)
Junior high school	0.448^∗∗∗	(0.082)		0.475^∗∗∗		(0.082)		0.447^∗∗∗	(0.082)
Senior high school	0.683^∗∗∗	(0.101)		0.680^∗∗∗		(0.100)		0.636^∗∗∗	(0.101)
Undergraduate and above	0.243^∗∗	(0.121)		0.200^∗		(0.123)		0.212^∗∗∗	(0.124)
Self-rated health (ref: pretty good health)
Poor health	0.241^∗∗		(0.107)	0.277^∗∗∗			(0.277)	0.341^∗∗∗	(0.109)
Fair health	0.206^∗∗∗		(0.071)	0.212^∗∗∗			(0.108)	0.228^∗∗∗	(0.072)
Family size				0.069^∗∗∗			(0.017)	0.062^∗∗∗	(0.016)
Car ownership				0.370^∗∗∗			(0.071)	0.322^∗∗∗	(0.072)
Religious belief								0.319^∗∗∗	(0.091)
Smoking history								0.588^∗∗∗	(0.085)
Appearance								0.062^∗∗∗	(0.021)
Regional dummy variables								Yes	Yes
Constant	−7.685^∗∗∗		(0.460)	−8.255^∗∗∗			(0.488)	−8.841	(0.534)
Pseudo R2	0.0645			0.0720				0.0874
N	14613			14610				14608

Note. ^∗, ^∗∗, and ^∗∗∗ represent 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively. Robust standard errors are reported in parentheses.