Data and code for: Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale School of Management; Isaac Sorkin, Stanford; Henry Swift, Independent Researcher

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README.pdf application/pdf 212.2 KB 03/28/2020 08:35:AM
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Project Citation: 

Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul, Sorkin, Isaac, and Swift, Henry. Data and code for: Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-07-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117405V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This repository contains code and data associated with our paper title "Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How."  The abstract of the paper is:   The Bartik instrument is formed by interacting local industry shares and national industry growth rates. We show that the typical use of a Bartik instrument assumes a pooled exposure research design, where the shares measure differential exposure to common shocks, and identification is based on exogeneity of the shares. Next, we show how the Bartik instrument weights each of the exposure designs. Finally, we discuss how to assess the plausibility of the research design.  We illustrate our results through two applications: estimating the elasticity of labor supply, and estimating the elasticity of substitution between immigrants and natives.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Identification; Bartik; shift-share
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      C18 Methodological Issues: General


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