An Examination of Industry Mix Demand Indicators: The Bartik Instrument at Twenty-Five

Broxterman, Daniel; Larson, William D.

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“…Our work also relates to other recent methodological studies of shift-share designs, including Jaeger et al (2018) and Broxterman and Larson (2018). The former highlights biases of shift-share IV due to endogenous local labor market dynamics, while the latter studies the empirical performance of different shift-share instrument constructions.…”

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Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs

2018

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Many empirical studies leverage shift-share (or "Bartik") instruments that average a set of observed shocks with shock exposure weights. We derive a necessary and sufficient shock-level orthogonality condition for these instruments to identify causal effects. We then show that orthogonality holds when observed shocks are as-good-as-randomly assigned and growing in number, with the average shock exposure sufficiently dispersed. Quasiexperimental shift-share designs may be implemented with new shock-level procedures, which help visualize the identifying variation, correct standard errors, choose appropriate specifications, test identifying assumptions, and optimally combine multiple sets of quasi-random shocks. We illustrate these ideas by revisiting Autor et al. (2013)'s analysis of the labor market effects of Chinese import competition.

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2018

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“…6 See Broxterman and Larson (2018) and Goldman-Pinkham, Sorkin, and Swift (2018) for more complete discussions of the composition and exogeneity assumptions of the generalized Bartik variable.…”

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Wage and Employment Growth in America's Drug Epidemic: Is All Growth Created Equal?

Betz

Jones

2018

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The rise in drug overdose deaths in the United States since the turn of the millennium has been extraordinary. A popular narrative paints a picture whereby opioid overdoses among white, male, lesseducated, rural workers have been caused by reduced economic opportunities borne by such people. In this article, we causally test the validity of this theory by using Bartik-type variables to explore the relationship between local economic conditions and county opioid overdose death rates. We add to the literature by exploring how both employment and wage growth in different types of industries are related to opioid overdose deaths for the population as a whole, as well as for rural (vs. urban), male (vs. female) and white (vs. black) populations. We find mixed evidence. Our results confirm that wage and employment growth in industries more likely to employ low-skill workers are important protective factors for rural, white males. However, we also find evidence that economic improvements in low-skill industries are just as important in protecting blacks and women against opioid overdoses, and for workers in metro counties. We also find evidence that employment growth in high-paying industries has led to increases in opioid overdoes rates.

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“…The definitions of 'upstream' and 'downstream' are taken fromAcemoglu et al, (2016) and are used in most studies. Some studies, however, do use reverse definitions of these terms.6 An alternative would be to update the absorption denominator over time Broxterman and Larson (2019). discuss the trade-offs involved in this choice.© 2021 Economic Society of Australia 2021 IMPORT GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA…”

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The Impact of Growth in Manufactured Imports from China on Employment in Australia^*

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We examine how rapid growth in imports of manufactured goods from China affected employment in Australia from 1991 to 2006. Alternative sources of variation in Chinese import exposure (at industry level and between local labour markets) are used to identify the effect on employment. Growth in imports from China is estimated to have reduced manufacturing employment by around 53,200 to 78,900 workers, representing 5.3 to 7.5 per cent of that workforce in 1991. Largest impacts are found for manufacturing industries most exposed to import competition from China; and from 2001 to 2006 when import growth was strongest. 2 Import penetration was calculated from Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australian National Accounts: Input-Output Tables, catalogue no. 5209.0.55.001. Imports are from the UN Comtrade Database, transformed from US into Australian dollars using the annual average exchange rate provided by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Employment shares are four-quarter averages from ABS, Labour Force Australia, Detailed, Table 04.

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An Examination of Industry Mix Demand Indicators: The Bartik Instrument at Twenty-Five

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Wage and Employment Growth in America's Drug Epidemic: Is All Growth Created Equal?

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An Examination of Industry Mix Demand Indicators: The Bartik Instrument at Twenty-Five

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

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Wage and Employment Growth in America's Drug Epidemic: Is All Growth Created Equal?

The Impact of Growth in Manufactured Imports from China on Employment in Australia*

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