Research

Publications:

"Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with Application to Chile and Firing Costs," (with Jagadeesh Sivadasan), forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics. PDF
"The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S.
Macroeconomic Growth," (with T. Kirk White and Jerome P. Reiter), Review of Economic Dynamics, January,
2011. PDF, Programs.
"A Control Function Approach to Endogeneity in Consumer Choice Models," (with
Kenneth Train), Journal of Marketing Research, February 2010, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp.
3-13. PDF.
The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with
Cable TV," (with Austan Goolsbee), Econometrica, March, 2004, Vol. 72, No. 2,
pp. 351-381. PDF.
"Estimating Production Functions Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables," (with
James Levinsohn), Review of Economic Studies, April 2003, Vol. 70(2), No. 243, pp.
317-342. PDF.
"Quantifying the Benefits of New Products: The Case of the Minivan," Journal of
Political Economy, 110:705-729, 2002. PDF.
"Production Function Estimation in Stata Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables,"
(with James Levinsohn and Brian Poi), accompanies levpet.do stata procedure, Stata
Journal, 2004, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.113-123. PDF.

White, T. Kirk, Jerome Reiter, and Amil Petrin, "Plant-level Productivity and Imputation of Missing
Data in U.S. Census Manufacturing Data," September 2011. PDF.
Kim, Kyoo-il and Amil Petrin, "Revisiting the Classic Control Function Approach, with Implications for Parametric and Non-Parametric Regressions," April 2011. PDF.
Amit Gandhi, Kyoo-il Kim, and Amil Petrin, "Identification and Estimation in Discrete Choice Demand Models when Endogenous Variables Interact with the Error," March 2011, PDF.
Amil Petrin and James Levinsohn, "Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data," March 2012, PDF .
Amil Petrin and Frederic Warzynski, "The Impact of Research and Development on Quality, Productivity and Welfare," May 2012, PDF.
Mitsukuni Nishida, Amil Petrin, and Sašo Polanec, "Explaining Reallocation's Apparent Negative Contribution to Growth," November 2011, PDF.
Amil Petrin and Kyoo-il Kim, "Control Function Corrections for Omitted Attributes in Differentiated Product Models.'' PDF.
Amil Petrin and Kyoo-il Kim, "Tests for Price Endogeneity in Differentiated Product Models.'' PDF.
James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin, "On the Micro-Foundations of Productivity Growth," November 2003, PDF.
James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin , "When Industries Become More Productive, Do Firms?: Investigating Productivity Dynamics," January 1999, PDF.

Stata Code (zipped file with ado routines) levpet.zip
Amil Petrin, James Levinsohn, and Brian Poi "Production Function Estimation in Stata Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables," Stata Journal, Vol. 4 (2), 2004, PDF This code can also be downloaded directly from Stata.

May 7, 2012