Employment impacts of higher energy prices, state/year panel results

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
State/year panel -0.014** -0.038*** -0.017*** -0.017* -0.049*** -0.026***
(.008) (.0054) (.0044) (.009) (.0055) (.0047)
State/industry/year panel -0.049 -0.044 -0.024
(.042) (.058) (.058)
Predicted employment effect, short-run 81,453 221,088 98,908 98,908 285,087 151,270
Quadratic in year yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Year fixed effecs yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
State fixed effects yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
State-specific time trend no yes yes no yes yes no yes yes
Industry fixed effect yes yes yes
Industry-specific time trend no yes yes
Unemployment gap no no yes no no yes no no yes
Years 1979–2012 1979–2012 1979–2012 1979–2008 1979–2008 1979–2008 1990–2012 1990–2012 1990–2012
Observations 1,734 1,734 1,734 1,474 1,474 1,474 14,292 14,292 14,292

Note: ***,**,* denote statistical significance at the 1, 5, and 10 percent levels respectively. Standard errors are in parentheses.  Dependent variable is the log of state employment, as described in the text.

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) and the State Energy Data System (U.S. EIA)

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