Data and Code for: New Measurement of Export Participation in U.S. Manufacturing

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Aaron Flaaen, Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER; Christoph Boehm, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

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Project Citation: 

Flaaen, Aaron, Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya, and Boehm, Christoph. Data and Code for: New Measurement of Export Participation in U.S. Manufacturing. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-05-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E189921V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We measure export participation rates in the U.S. manufacturing sector using a new administrative dataset and compare them to participation rates constructed from the commonly used Census of Manufacturers (CM).  Both at the establishment and firm level export participation rates are near 40 percent in the administrative data, almost twice as high as in the CM.  The discrepancy appears to result predominantly from under-counting of small exporters in the CM.  Our findings call for reconsidering the conventional wisdom that around 20 percent of manufacturing firms export.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms International Trade; Export Participation
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      F00 International Economics: General
      F14 Empirical Studies of Trade
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage USA
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2007 – 2012
Universe:  View help for Universe U.S. Manufacturing Sector
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; survey data


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