New Measurement of Export Participation in US Manufacturing
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 113,
May 2023
(pp. 93-98)
Abstract
We measure export participation rates in the US manufacturing sector using a new administrative dataset and compare them to participation rates constructed from the commonly used census of manufacturers (CM). At both the establishment and firm levels, 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 undercounting of small exporters in the CM. Our findings call for reconsidering the conventional wisdom that around 20 percent of manufacturing firms export.Citation
Boehm, Christoph E., Aaron Flaaen, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar. 2023. "New Measurement of Export Participation in US Manufacturing." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 113: 93-98. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20231076Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- F14 Empirical Studies of Trade
- L25 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
- L60 Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General