The empirics of firm heterogeneity and international trade

AB Bernard, JB Jensen, SJ Redding… - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2012 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first
wave of empirical findings from microdata on plants and firms proposed challenges for …

Fast Poisson estimation with high-dimensional fixed effects

S Correia, P Guimarães, T Zylkin - The Stata Journal, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we present ppmlhdfe, a new command for estimation of (pseudo-) Poisson
regression models with multiple high-dimensional fixed effects (HDFE). Estimation is …

Bargaining, sorting, and the gender wage gap: Quantifying the impact of firms on the relative pay of women

D Card, AR Cardoso, P Kline - The Quarterly journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
There is growing evidence that firm-specific pay premiums are an important source of wage
inequality. These premiums will contribute to the gender wage gap if women are less likely …

Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West German wage inequality

D Card, J Heining, P Kline - The Quarterly journal of economics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases
in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and …

Sources of geographic variation in health care: Evidence from patient migration

A Finkelstein, M Gentzkow… - The quarterly journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical
strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and …

Leave‐out estimation of variance components

P Kline, R Saggio, M Sølvsten - Econometrica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We propose leave‐out estimators of quadratic forms designed for the study of linear models
with unrestricted heteroscedasticity. Applications include analysis of variance and tests of …

Common errors: How to (and not to) control for unobserved heterogeneity

TA Gormley, DA Matsa - The Review of Financial Studies, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity (or “common errors”), such as industry-specific
shocks, is a fundamental challenge in empirical research. This paper discusses the …

Global firms

AB Bernard, JB Jensen, SJ Redding… - Journal of Economic …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as
attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms actually engaged in …

[PDF][PDF] Singletons, cluster-robust standard errors and fixed effects: A bad mix

S Correia - Technical Note, Duke University, 2015 - scorreia.com
Maintaining singleton groups in linear regressions where fixed effects are nested within
clusters can overstate statistical significance and lead to incorrect inference. Due to this …

A distributional framework for matched employer employee data

S Bonhomme, T Lamadon, E Manresa - Econometrica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a framework to identify and estimate earnings distributions and worker
composition on matched panel data, allowing for two‐sided worker‐firm unobserved …