Table 4 Endogenous treatment.

From: Digital transformation as an ESG performance catalyst with insights from China’s external governance

Variables

DT

ESG

DID

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

IV

0.031***

    

(21.38)

    

DT

 

0.084***

   
 

(4.24)

   

Digit

  

0.321***

0.063**

0.054**

  

(7.15)

(2.60)

(2.47)

Controls

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Firm FE

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Year FE

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Industry FE

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

City FE

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

LM statistic

33.088***

   

Wald F statistic

457.07

   

Observations

33187

33187

21469

21469

21469

R-squared

0.208

0.033

0.015

0.564

0.582

  1. *, **, and ***Significance levels of 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively. The t statistics reported are in parentheses. Standard errors are robustly clustered by industry.