Production Function Estimation in Stata using Inputs to Control for Unobservables

By Amil Petrin, Brian P. Poi, J. Levinsohn. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Labor diversity and firm productivity (2014, unknown): “[55] Petrin, Amil, James Levinsohn, and Brian Poi.”
• How and By How Much does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms (2008, background): “The variation in the point estimates across the bootstrapped samples provides an estimate for the standard errors of the original point estimates (see Petrin et al., 2004).”
• Financial Constraints and Productivity: Evidence from Euro Area Companies (2018, unknown): “[34] Levinsohn, James and Amil Petrin, (2004), “Production Function Estimation in Stata Using Input to Control for Unobservables”, The Stata Journal, Vol.”
• Environmental regulations, induced R&D, and productivity: Evidence from Taiwan's manufacturing industries (2012, unknown): “To obtain the TFP index, we follow the procedures in Petrin et al. (2004). First, this paper adopts the summation of zero to the third power of k and m to approximate it(kit, mit), and rewrites Eq.”
• FDI Spillovers and Time Since Foreign Entry (2014, unknown): “Teece (1977) suggests two main channels for horizontal spillovers: technology imitation (the demonstration effect) and mobility of workers trained by foreign firms (see also Fosfuri et al.”
• Gifted kids or pushy parents? Foreign acquisitions and plant performance in Indonesia (2005, unknown): “19 The estimation was implemented in Stata 8 using the program described in Levinsohn et al. (2003). In 29 out of 62 industries this procedure moved the coefficient on capital in the expected upward direction when compared to a fixed effects estimation of the production function.”